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Thank YOU so much for making these wonderful games and putting your whole heart into them!! That's really what I love about playing these games from all these different developers! I am so glad that my silly little videos can give people so much joy *cries*. I try to read all the comments I get and so many people say I help them relax or have a better day. That truly means so much to me and gives me the strength to keep going.

To be honest I too get super nervous when I upload a video that I've been very excited about, I usually have to lay down and rest just from uploading it! But the best thing to do is just keep moving forward (while taking breaks), to just go for it and learn from any mistakes.

I feel like I missed a few endings in Tunnel Vision though I tried to get as many as I could, that WAS really fun and threw me for a few loops, I really love that! And that game was super creative with the Simon Says part!! And no problem in keeping the code a secret, above all things I want to respect the developers so I really appreciate you making it clear to keep it hidden!

I just finished recording Sapphire Snow and I think it's beautiful with a super important message! Since we're on the subject, is there anything you don't feel comfortable showing in the video? I kept the very sweet personal message at the end and it makes me want to give you the biggest HUG! Because I went through a very similar thing, it's the reason why I named myself Espoir du Vide. Years ago I started making a game called Gentille Alouette and in making that game I worked through a lot of mental struggles and took the name of the character Espoir  and I could feel that in Sapphire Snow. 

But thank you so much for all YOU do, I hope you're taking care of yourself, putting yourself first, and knowing how much you are loved and cherished by complete strangers!

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There is something special about indie games in general I think :3 I haven’t managed to play as much as you, but whenever I’ve paused to try and check out stuff other devs have made for game jams and things, I’m always blown away by the sheer effort, passion, and imagination in everyone’s stories! In many ways, I think I now enjoy playing indie VNs more than I do the big commercial Japanese titles that originally got me into the genre :D

I’m gonna sound kinda ancient by saying this, but back when I first decided to try and make a VN, I’d largely exhausted the VNs available to play at the time xD or at least within the genres I was interested in reading, and there really wasn’t much in the way of Western/OELVNs around at all. Nowadays I’m spoiled for choice, haha. My backlog is so big at this point that I’m not sure if I’ll ever conquer it x3 But it’s amazing to see so many awesome games coming to life by such a huge array of incredible people!

You are a joy machine :D hehe. Well, you’re not a machine, of course x3 but you definitely spread a lot of joy with your videos :3 It’s difficult for me to find the right words to describe your videos and the way you come across in them, but just the way you are always resonates with me :3 You’re always so genuine and relatable! And the way you present stuff makes it feel as though you’re watching a video from a friend right from the first video you jump into! It’s very cosy and comforting ^-^

I should also congratulate you on your 30k+ subs cos that is HUGE! And very much deserved :3 I hope as time goes on that even more people will be able to discover and enjoy your content :D 

Aww x3 Well, I hope you do give yourself the time to rest and treat yourself when you’ve finished and released a new video cos it must be heaps of work! It’s crystal clear that you pour a lot of love and passion into your content :3

There are a fair few endings in Tunnel Vision to be fair, and some are impossible to get all in one playthrough. It made me smile when you made a comment along the lines of wondering what would happen if you didn’t pick anything and let everything time out because there is an ending specifically for that xD

I can’t believe you played Sapphire Snowe too x3 I don’t know why but I just imagined that not many people would play that one due to the kind of content >.< and I definitely didn’t think anyone would ever do a video playthrough of it!!

I’m comfortable with anything/everything being shown :3 that’s very sweet of you to ask btw! Sometimes I wonder if I’m a bit TOO open about my mental health stuff >.< but then I think to myself, well, it’s not like I’m forcing it on people, and I feel like in the society I live in, people could do with discussing their mental health more openly in general because, while things have improved a little over the years, there’s still a lot of stigma surrounding the topic >.< and I hate the thought of anyone suffering in silence feeling like they can’t speak about their feelings and experiences.

I don’t really want to be seen as one of those types of people who won’t shut up about stuff, haha, but at the same time, I don’t see any point in hiding those sorts of personal things because they’re a part of who I am and go a long way towards explaining why I have difficulty dealing with different things. I’d much rather be open and honest about stuff so people know I’m like X because of Y, rather than people drawing inaccurate conclusions or anything cos it does suck if people end up thinking negatively of you for the wrong reasons. 

Like at school, I think people viewed me as a mixture of shy and aloof or stuck up/disinterested, but it wasn’t like that >.< I had extreme social anxiety and struggled to communicate x3 it’s not that I didn’t want to, it’s that I couldn’t because I didn’t know how, haha. I even had to write a letter to my wider family explaining how bad my social anxiety is, and about my ASD, because when we have family gatherings, I often just sit in a corner and don’t contribute anything. It would be so easy to think I was just being rude, but that’s not what’s going on, it’s that I don’t know how to join in unless someone actually brings me into the conversations x3

Anyways, I’m rambling, sorry x3

If I could give you a gigantic hug back then I would! All I can do is send you *maximum virtual hugs* x3 I’m sorry you went through something similar though >.< I wouldn’t wish that kind of thing on anyone! No one should end up feeling that way :( That’s so cool that you took the name Espoir from that project though! If I’m being completely honest, I didn’t even know you had that project until reading what you wrote just now >.< but I had a peek at the page and it looks incredible! I’m definitely gonna have to make time for the demo at some point, especially knowing how important of a piece it is to you :3 I hope you’re able to finish it someday at your own pace so it can grow with all the love and care that I’m sure you’ll give it <3

It means a lot that you could feel that sort of essence of working through mental struggles in Sapphire Snowe :3 I always feel like I can never quite do justice to the things as they appear in my head when I get them into game form, haha. It’s like no matter how hard I try, they never come out quite right >.< and I really worried with this, the fact that I tried to make it to a jam timeframe might’ve hampered my efforts. I know it helped me process a lot of my feelings at the time, but it was hard to know if I should actually make it into something to be released publicly x3

I had hoped that it might come across as soothing in a similar way for players as it was for me making it, but I know that would be heavily dependent on individuals since everyone’s experience of life is completely unique to them. In the end, I just figured that it can’t really do any harm releasing it as long as I make sure to include all the appropriate triggers and warnings stuff, and if it somehow resonates with even 1 person, then it was worth putting it out there :3

When I think about it, I find it quite hard to even accept that strangers might love or cherish me and/or what I do x3 It seems insane to me when I just see myself as this little weirdo pootling on through life kinda lost but trying my best to keep going, haha. I guess that’s my terrible self-esteem talking though! I don’t really feel like I do anything worthy of being loved or cherished >.< and I struggle to give myself any credit or congratulations. I’m working on it though xD along with trying to take care of myself a bit better, haha. Even if it might not always seem like it, everyone’s kind words, like yours, genuinely do make a big difference :3 It helps me see myself and what I make in a light that I find hard to on my own.

And more than that, I can take everyone’s kindness and use it as a weapon to fight back against my evil brain demons that have the hobby of attempting to put me down x3 When they say stuff like I’m a useless waste of space, instead of sitting there thinking, yeah, you’re right, I can remember everyone’s caring words and stand my ground to say, actually, no I’m not, damn it, because X, Y, and Z, haha. It’s like holding on to a lantern that can fight off the darkness. It can’t completely swallow me up as long as I have that light of hope and positivity to carry with me :3

Please don’t feel like you have to respond to my ramble wall anyhow x3 Just know that I think you’re amazing and I appreciate you and everything you do <3 I hope you’re also taking care of yourself!!

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Adore you so much Miss 'Melanie' btw.
You are awesome and hope your future endeavors do well.  Shine a light upon the darkness and cast them back from whence they came!

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<3 You’re too kind!! >.<

I’m not gonna lie, things are still pretty bleak at the moment, haha. So I’m trying my best to hold onto all these nice things that people like yourself have said.

It’s kind of a long story, and you know what I’m like with my rambling, so I’ll try my best to summarise the situation (though I have rambled about it at even greater length in a ko-fi post draft that I'll probably post shortly, haha), but basically, I’m now stuck in a battle with the UK government that could last a few years >.< All because mental health professionals have encouraged me to apply for this small amount of extra support money you can get that’s designed to try and help people with various difficulties live a more independent life (in theory anyway x3)

I didn’t for many years cos I had a bad feeling it would be a harrowing process. I only went for it finally because the clinical psychologist who diagnosed my ASD last year pretty much begged me to try and apply for it.

Well, it hasn’t gone well, haha. That was kind of to be expected, but I couldn’t anticipate the sheer psychological damage of their independent ‘health’ assessments and following decision letter >.< I don’t really even have the words to describe the process, but if I had to try and pick a few, I’d go with, degrading, dehumanising, demeaning, invalidating, and ultimately traumatic. 

I couldn’t possibly handle it all alone, so I contacted the ASD support group I’m currently attending to see if they could offer any help, and they put me in touch with an advice & advocacy charity. The support group said that if we were being generous, their assessors are simply ignorant of how ASD can impact people. But more worryingly, it seems as though they have essentially denied the existence of my ASD diagnosis, refused to make reasonable adjustments for me despite my asking for them (and they're supposed to make these reasonable adjustments by law under a disabilities act), ignored all of my written correspondence, and essentially discriminated against me on account of my autism.

Since they won’t take in my words, I’m now having to rely on the advocacy charity to be my voice. I honestly don’t know what I would’ve done without their support. I’ve already had one of the biggest meltdowns I’ve had in years over the whole thing >.<

And, in general, it just seems as though the UK government are pushing to do everything it can to destroy the lives of disadvantaged and disabled people across the entire country :( It just seems like one of those unwinnable situations because we’re just the little people who can’t defend ourselves and they pick on us relentlessly, demonise us, and try to turn society against us. 

To them, we’re not passionate people who want to contribute as much as we can to society but just need some support to do so, nope, in their eyes and their rhetoric, we’re lazy, leeching, degenerates who are one of the big reasons the country’s economy is so bad because we’re sucking away all the taxpayer money claiming benefits >.> Because of course, the state of the economy has absolutely nothing to do with government incompetence and straight-up corruption of those in power.

Right now, they’re in the process of amending laws that will allow them to target people claiming aid money and look at the purchase history in their bank accounts + any accounts connected to those people, like friends & family members o.O Previously, they could only do that if they suspected someone of fraud, under the new changes, they can do generalised sweeping checks on everyone.

They say it’s to combat fraud because fraud related to certain benefits is costing far too much money, but their own figures show that in one of the benefits targetted, the rate of fraud was only 1.1% in 2023 o.O But they make out like everyone claiming it is an evil, money-sucking vampire! And the average person doesn’t go hunting for the facts and the truth. They just believe what they hear in the news from politicians saying things like the country is being destroyed by disabled, lazy, workshy parasites. Then people vote for them on the basis that they’re doing something about it by punishing us, therefore making the country better/richer.

They’re also looking to implement a scheme to push people who are long-term unemployed due to ill health into basically any job out there or be sanctioned/lose their support money. An MP said that it’s 'morally wrong' for people who are long-term unemployed to not be seeking any form of employment available to them regardless of their health conditions. That they have a duty to work and pay taxes, not scrounge off the benefits system.

Thankfully, there are people standing up to the cruel plans of the government, like in this quote here:

“Justin Donne, chair of the autistic-led charity Autistic Nottingham, said: “The only ‘moral wrong’ is the government’s callous attitude to people who are long-term unemployed, including the autistic people our charity supports.

“What’s concerning about the chancellor’s announcement is that it ignores the fact that few employers offer that kind of work-from-home flexibility and adequate pay, to make such plans realistic.

“We do not live in a dream world where these jobs exist, thus creating a nightmare for autistic people on benefits who are long-term unemployed due to a lack of accessible work.”

It hurts so much to be demonised like that by the people who are supposed to take care of the country and its people.

If I didn’t have everyone here telling me that there is value in what I’m trying to do with my games, I’d probably fall into complete despair with the way people like me are viewed by the average person in UK society >.<

Anyways, I’m sorry because I still rambled x3 It’s a big, multi-layered problem to unpack because you’ve got my individual nightmare related to my current claim and the charity helping me fight that battle, and then you’ve got the wider issue impacting everyone in a similar situation to me.

But yeah, with all that currently crushing me, it’s hard to hold onto a positive attitude >.< I’m just trying to do what I usually do when I’m overwhelmed and can’t cope with anything and just working ungodly hours on a project to completely block out thoughts of anything else x3 It's literally the only way I know how to survive >.<

I hope that you’re well yourself at least! And that February has been kind to you :3 With any luck, your year will be a happy one that gets better with every month!

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Seems you aren't the only one upset with your govt.  I'll drop a linkdump here that should explain things in detail but the TLDR is that the US Federal Govt has a program called 'EBT' (electronic benefits transfer) which provides money for food (and nothing else) to those in need.  The US Govt has been wasting 25+ BILLION USD a YEAR due to fraud yet instead of fixing shit they've been doing nothing.  Only last year did they finally pass a law to require states to reimburse victims.  Most victims are victimized from 'out of state' purchases but there's no opportunity for them to block said purchases at all (like 'deny all out of state purchases') which is really weird.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2018/04/04/the-facts-about-food-stam...

https://gitnux.org/food-stamp-fraud-statistics/

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4224015-fraud-is-gobbling-up-one-fifth-of-sn...

https://www.cdiaonline.org/views/2022/09/30/study-snap-fraud-is-staggering-and-c...

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_4ba7116a-5dee-11ee-ab64-8f11719...

1 - the card is a plain plastic card without a chip; us federal law is stupid and doesn't allow for chip cards to be used (what!?) because boomers gonna boomer; this kind of card is trivially copied

2 - PIN number is the only thing keeping accounts from being emptied; very trivial to attempt every possible PIN until it works (brute forcing); zero compensation for victims up until last year

3 - Despite people begging the US Govt to do something nothing has been done for decades.  Certain politicians here want to just cut off the program entirely instead of fixing the fraud.

Doesn't that seem odd though?  Hey here's some obvious criminal fraud that could be stopped with some very basic safeguards (restricted to in-state use only, etc) but they won't do that.  Why?

Just some food for thought.  UK is trashy and US is even worse heh.

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It doesn’t surprise me that there are big issues like that in the US too, but it still sucks :( I don’t get why it’s so hard for an elected government to actually function well and look after its people! It just seems like wherever you live, the folks in government are corrupt >.< Sure, maybe not all of them, but enough for it to be a problem.

There is a big issue in the news here at the moment about how the gov is now targeting unpaid carers in fraud cases! People who are essentially saving the gov millions by caring for their loved ones. And because a benefit payment happened to be mistakenly overpaid by a couple of quid, they’ve suddenly started going after people for thousands of £££, even though the overpayment errors are the fault of the gov departments in charge o.O They say the people in receipt of the benefits are responsible for reporting errors… why?! Most people wouldn’t even be aware if an error had occurred, let alone know how to report it.

One of the cases that was most disgusting was one where they were chasing a 90-year-old woman with severe dementia for £3000 of her savings just cos some overpayments were made in error over the years >.> And yet multiple serving MPs openly commit fraud and nothing happens to them.

It’s like everything is designed to protect the rich and help them get richer. Which is awful in itself, but to then put out propaganda that the country’s economy is in a mess because of disabled people and poor people… it just makes me sick to my stomach >.<

In other news, the current minister for policing made a right tit of himself on Question Time last night during a debate about sending people to Rwanda who are coming over on boat crossings seeking asylum. An audience member asked a question about it not being safe because of skirmishes and stuff, and the minister sat there and asked if Rwanda and Congo were different countries o.O
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68903573
(the link is just to an article about it on BBC news with a video clip, but I was watching it live with my family, and we were all laughing at how ludicrous it was! Tbh though, the guy was talking nonsense for the entire duration of the show like most Tory MPs >.>)

I hope you're well anyhow :3 I'm just struggling as usual, haha. Burned out and overwhelmed trying to deal with general life stuff while being harassed by the gov about my claim.

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When you were describing how people thought you were aloof and it was just social anxiety, I felt that on a deep level. I also, and still am, very quiet. I love making videos because that’s my best self, that’s me at my happiest, just sharing cool games with friends. But in real life I’m super quiet and way more terrified of everything, haha. And I definitely know the feeling of social awkwardness being mistaken for something negative.

I wholeheartedly think mental health is something that should be talked about more! I’ve probably said it before but it’s something I feel really strongly about. After I started playing Sapphire Snow a bit more I felt that I really wanted other people to see it because I know people suffer in silence. I don’t know if the video will get a bunch of views, but maybe someone will feel heard and seen.

I love that analogy of using kind words against negative thoughts like a tiny lantern!!! I love that so much, because that’s what it feels like. I once saw a video where a person has two jars and the positive praise jar gets filled with tons of colorful beads but then the negative jar gets one single bead dropped in, then the woman smashes the jar full of praise (quite violently actually) and carries the jar with the one bead like it’s important. So I try to imagine carrying the full jar and leaving that single bead alone. Kind of a strange analogy but that thought of cherishing praise has helped me a lot recently.

I’m really glad that you have that platform and that space to be your best self in your videos :3 Your happiness definitely shines in your videos and is infectious, haha. It’s a shame that you can’t extend that sense of being able to fully be yourself in other parts of life :( I feel you though because I can only really be my happiest, most authentic version of myself when in the safety of my home, haha. Every time I step outside, it’s like I take a bag of masks with me and wear whichever one I feel I need to at the time x3 and I’m painfully aware that my masks aren’t even adequate, haha. 

At the ASD support group I’m attending right now, they have told us to try our best to embrace that we’re neurodivergent, to try and let go of the masks and the self-monitoring and just be the way we were before we realised we had to cover it all up x3 Which is a nice sentiment, but it’s easier said than done! If I’m being completely honest, sometimes I don’t even know who I am xD I’ve tried to squeeze myself into so many different shapes over the years in (failed) attempts to fit in that I feel like I consist of fragments of a person, and I’m not entirely sure what’s actually me and what’s leftover shards of some sort of performance >.<

I guess I never really had that opportunity as a kid/young person to explore/discover who I might be because I was too busy using all my energy trying to blend in as a matter of survival x3 That sounds so tragic now that I write it down o.o”

I’m not sure what it’s like where you are, but where I live, we still have that sort of stubbornness in older generations who don’t believe mental health is a thing x3 That it’s just youngsters are too sensitive these days, they need to pull their socks up, stop moaning, and get on with it! Sort of attitude >.< Even my own mum, who isn’t THAT old, doesn’t really get mental health like it’s something other people have made up because they’re too weak to handle life o.O I can’t talk to her about anything like that because it just does not compute with her even a tiny bit. 

And then you have the government and the media over here saying stuff like young people are ‘Generation Sick Note - Too lazy to work’ >.< Which just completely dismisses the fact that a huuuuge chunk of the reason people are too ill to work is because their mental health has gotten so bad! I don’t understand how in this day and age, people can still be so smallminded when it comes to mental health so much so as to accuse people struggling with poor mental health of being lazy :( 

And then the worst part is, they expect you to get better without any help! 

I think younger people are more clued up and more open about discussing mental health stuff, but yeah, we have a loooong way to go still when it comes to general understanding of how it impacts people >.<

Anyways, it means a lot to me that you felt that way about the game :3 It was always gonna be one of those obscure things that probably only interests a few people x3 but still, I have to thank you again for choosing to make a video of it! I've only had a chance to watch about half of your video so far, but I have to say that all your commentary and stuff is so heartwarming x3 You've handled such a sensitive topic with such a huge and caring heart <3 Aaaand, you still managed to make me laugh out loud more than once xD Digimon, hehe, now there are some happy childhood memories :D I reckon if Saffie had someone like you in her life for a while, she probably wouldn't have felt the need to go wandering off into the woods!

But yeah, even just from your comments here and the comments of others on the project, I’m glad that I decided to share it in the end because to know it resonates with anyone at all means the world to me and is also extremely validating on a personal level. If someone does end up feeling heard or seen as a result of your video, that would be incredible. I know for me, just having people on my side who accept and make an effort to understand me makes a world of difference because feeling invisible and alone is so isolating >.<

Man, that sounds like a pretty powerful video! I can see it playing out in my head just from your description, haha. As much as I hate to admit it, I’ve essentially done that at times myself >.< I wish I knew why it’s so much easier to hold on to 1 single negative thing than a whole bunch of positives. It seems so illogical x3 As much as I try to be the sort of person who doesn’t let the bad stuff get under my skin, it somehow always does. 1 stupid cruel comment shouldn't have the power to drown out an ocean of positivity T_T

I’d love to know what it is about someone’s journey through life that allows them to totally shrug off negative stuff like it hardly even touches them, haha. I see people who are super confident and think to myself… how?! How have you attained this level of confidence and where can I acquire it too, please? x3

I really like visual aids for things like this though, so I think I might have to borrow what you said about trying to imagine carrying the full jar of all the good things :3 I reckon it might help me keep it in mind cos while I feel like I’m doing a slightly better job at it nowadays, I still have a tendency to let the negative seep in when I’ve been having a hard time >.< I sometimes try to imagine negative comments like little black bouncy balls, and when I read something that makes me feel crappy, try to envision just booting it with all my strength so it just flies off into the distance in the hope that I might not keep dwelling on it xD

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What you said about masks and your personality being made of shards of failed performances is so poetic!! I love that! It sounds so much like what I want for Alouette (because a lot of the characters are “parts” of me AND almost everyone wears a literal mask. My favorite is Colibri the people pleaser who wears an entire divers helmet as a “mask”) And I feel that too on not knowing who I was growing up. I Feel that I didn’t really meet “me” until I hit 30! But that’s a part of life, I don’t think many people ever know themselves. I say to myself a lot that “I don’t know who I am but I know who I want to be” and I tell myself to just be. I’d actually love to explore that because I’ve always had an interest in psychology.

I am American and while it’s not great I do feel that America slightly understands mental health a little better. I remember hearing that in Britain it’s far worse and there is even less help for people. Don’t get me wrong, America still stinks when it comes to actually helping people. But when I talk to some older people they do understand things like depression and anxiety. And I hate when they call us “lazy”, they do that here too, yet there are so few opportunities to thrive. I could go into how many people barely have enough money to survive, wages still haven’t risen, prices on basic needs are rising AND they want us to start having children, but I don’t want to turn this into a vent about America haha.

I’m really glad you enjoyed the video so far!! I was worried that I said too little but it’s kind of felt like watching a movie with a friend. I noticed that a creator named Your Game also did a video but they don’t add commentary to their videos, that’s someone else who played it!

I like the little black ball of negativity analogy, I may have to try that! I think personifying or turning the negativity into something mentally tangible and then getting rid of it (like kicking the black ball or naming your depression “Void” and telling him to be quiet) really helps. To be honest I’ve always assumed I am on the Autism spectrum but health care is difficult in this country and I just never had the time or money to get a proper diagnosis. But regardless I want us both to just BE, to do what makes us happy and continue to move forward and do our best in this crazy world!   

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That makes me even more excited to see what happens with Alouette!! I definitely need to take some time off after the yan jams to play your demo. I absolutely adore those sorts of psychological aspects in things :3 That’s so adorable though to wear a divers helmet as a mask x3 But yeah, I guess you’re right that not many people ever know themselves. It’s kind of hard to have the opportunity to even find yourself when you’re sorta pushed into society so young and told you’ve gotta do and be X, Y, and Z >.< It’s like you don’t even get a chance to breathe cos you’ve got your orders and you just have to get on with that, haha. 

I was recently given a resource on connecting with yourself better by the ASD group, and it’s like an exercise that you’re supposed to fill out once a week for a few weeks without giving it too much thought. It’s split into like different categories and you’re supposed to define yourself and your interests to different groups. So like, think of your family, then list the things that are important to you in order of how important they are when you’re appearing to them. Do the same with friends. Again with strangers. And then finally when thinking about there being no one there at all to judge you, just listing what you consider most important about yourself and what you do/would like to do with no one watching.

Supposedly, by the time you’ve filled it out a few times, you should have a better idea of what your core self actually values the most and what you put more value on for the sake of appearances/impressing others.

Haha, that would not surprise me at all if the UK is worse than the US for understanding mental health x3 Mental health in general is severely underfunded here. We have the NHS, but it’s a bit of a postcode lottery as to whether or not you can access different kinds of health services, and even if you can, the waiting lists are years along cos the demand far outstrips its capacity to serve >.<

I managed to finish the video in the end and after laughing at more of your references (Frozen - Let it go xD made me laugh out loud in bed, haha), I was also so touched by your message at the end. That was such a heartfelt speech and it made me want to give you the hugest of hugs x3 I could never do something like that off of the top of my head because I’d fumble all my words and it would just come out wrong >.< But yeah, it was just so open, honest, and heartwarming to hear, not to mention brave to speak about that sort of stuff!

And then when you signed off saying get some sleep, get some proper sleep, I couldn’t help but laugh again cos it was around 4am when I finished watching so it just felt like I was being chided by a mother or something x3 But yeah, I have many fuzzies from all your kind words and wisdom! And like I said, you’re just such a bright light shining with warmth and positivity :3 If I had more time, I would watch every single one of your videos cos they’re so cozy and comforting x3

I didn’t know Your Game did a video too :o Even though I’m subscribed to them on YouTube >.< I swear my YouTube dashboard is useless, haha. It does sometimes show me your new videos & videos from others I’m subbed to, but mainly it’s just plastered with irrelevant recommendations >.>

That does suck that it’s difficult to even attempt to pursue a diagnosis. I’ve heard that a lot of people out there now just kinda take it as a given if they look into a lot of stuff on ASD and feel like it fits because it’s too awkward to actually get diagnosed. I guess at least it didn’t cost money over here, but yeah, it was a loooong time >.< I totally agree though that the best thing is to just be :3

That’s what’s been so nice about the support sessions I’ve been going to because they understand us and the room just feels like a completely safe space to actually be yourself without judgement! They keep telling us to try and do our best to drop the masks and such and just be ourselves, whatever that entails. Which is easier said than done, haha. But it does feel like they’ve created an environment at least where it does feel okay to just be. If everywhere were like that, life would be so much easier! As some of the charities over here say, mental health stuff and things like ASD aren’t always necessarily disabilities, it’s society that does the disabling.

But yeah, all we can do is keep going :3 And as you say, just try to do our best and do the things that make us happy in the process ^-^

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Sorry it took so long for me to respond!! I had to read this  slowly.

I do want to try out that ASD exercise, even though I haven't been officially diagnosed, I think it would help.

Thank you for watching my video, I'm so glad it made you smile!! I'm really bad at writing scripts and don't like how I sound reading them, so when I go off on a rant like that I worry that it sounds unclear and messy, but it's my honest words (I do have to pause every few minutes to think and I just cut that out in editing).

And I do mean that about proper sleep, it heals your body so much (as I also say that to myself).

I can't wait to play more of your amazing games! I already have Yandere Heaven on my "to play" list!

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You don’t need to apologise :3 I’m currently waaaaay behind on everything as usual x3

I don’t think it sounded unclear or messy at all :3 It was just really sweet, sincere, and heartfelt! It would sound unclear and messy if I tried to speak my honest thoughts, and no amount of editing out pauses for my brain freezing would be able to save me xD

Yeah, I keep trying to tell my pops he needs more sleep too cos he tends to go to bed at midnight, but then has to get up around 5am for work >.< I get his reasoning for not going to bed earlier (his free time doesn’t begin until around 7pm, so he doesn’t wanna go to bed at like 10/11 and only a few hours to himself each day), but yeah, I mean, he’s clearly crazy tired cos he’s grouchy a lot of the time :( and he winds up falling asleep seconds after eating dinner in the evenings, so his body must be screaming at him for more sleep.

Hope you have fun whenever you do play! :3 Me & Lazy Polar Bear are cooking up something for this year’s otome/josei jam, but we decided to try and only get a demo/part 01 done for the jam so as not to overwork ourselves like we usually do x3

We wanted to have a chill jam for once, but things haven’t exactly been going to plan so far cos she’s got a lot of stress going on with various things and my PC died xD Hopefully, we will still manage to submit to the jam, but it seems we will never manage to have a stress-free jam >.< haha.

Hope you’re having a marvellous May so far!! ^-^

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AH I'm so sorry about your computer! That is always a nightmare! I can't wait to see what you come up with though!! 

Hopefully you'll get a nice chill game jam, but regardless, you should put yourself first and step away if it gets too stressful! I hope you have a wonderful May as well!

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This is a sweet message.  Mind dropping your social links (YT specifically) so we can go throw some hearts and love your way?  Tyvm.

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AWWW! Thank you! I'd really appreciate that♫ My youtube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIt13lxuzhmVR_fmimpy2iA

I have a twitter and tumblr but I'm not on there very much, and also a tiktok where I put up clips of my youtube videos.