L.T.W.A - Leo's Thriv With Autism

1 million views (between 3 different channels)! Wow! I had to make a quick return here to thank you! 🫵 👍

It's a reason why i didn't fully delete the channel. When I create a community i can't just destroy it. Because you all built it. So it would be highly unfair to take this from you.

So i kept it opened for you! Again, thank you! I don't even have a millions subscribers combined yet i hit 1 million views between three channels.

Im both shocked and blown away. Just sitting here and reflecting on it.

And if in the future the channel keeps growing it'll also be you who did the growing. I've always been just a messenger. 😁

Back to reflecting and taking this all in. Continue to enjoy the channel everyone. Its my gift to you!

5 days ago | [YT] | 6

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Writing one last post then im backing away.

Im keeping the channels open but as of right now im done uploading new content. I just refuse to work for free. But however if the channel suddenly changes direction and it picks up velocity i may consider posting new videos.

Truth is i suck compared and judged by youtube standards. Im horrible. I apparently make videos people hate. And im the problem. Since im the problem ill accept it by backing away.

The data does not lie but people watching 3 seconds and skipping out. They are the exact people killing the channel. And refusing to allow it to grow. All long form videos on this channel show the same thing within the first 15 seconds of the video starting i lose 80% of people that clicked to watch and since the views only average around 50 views per video losing 80% is usually everyone that did click ditched the videos in 15 seconds or less.

I honestly don't get this train of thought. And wonder why someone parks themselves on a channel and tortures themselves by watching 15 seconds of every video the channel has. That one person alone kills recommendations and tanks videos.

But since 80% people enjoy skipping out on me regardless of my efforts. You win! And i lose.

I know there is like 5 of you that always watch all the way through. And since youtube refuses to find more like you. If you want the channel to grow suggest to people similar to you. You can bring in subscribers and views. You can create the hype. You hold the absolute power. Im powerless. I can't do anything that will get me a when because youtube listens to viewers not me.

So ill leave it to you. If you truly believe there is potential and this channel deserves to grow. Paste it everywhere bring in views get the growth going.

Otherwise slowly even remaining opened the channel will fade out of existence.

So there you have it friends. This channel is my gift to you. If you want to see it grow you need to help me out in anyways you feel comfortable with.

Wishing you all the very best! I appreciate all the support you all gave me. It won't be forgotten.

But for now it's "see you later". Take care! Im out.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

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It's not your fault. The system it failed you. Devices you owned hacked you and they own you now. But again it wasn't because anything you did but rather just because of weaponized designs of the products you own built and designed to take your life from you. So again you did nothing wrong but i can prove how the system failed you.

Take 6 months. Stay the hell away from all technology. No phones no computer. No internet. Nothing. You can't do it can you? The system designed to centralize all parts of life around technology so strongly that living without tech became impossible. Yet tech isn't a requirement to life. You can dump all tech and your beating heart will still continue to beat.

Here ill take it a step further to prove my point. If i took that evil phone you own and i smashed it then ran over all your computers not only would you rightfully want to fight me. But you'd get police involved and i would be in a world of trouble. And again rightfully so.

But think about it. Your defending a piece of hardware that isn't need yet runs your life. Your defending a piece of hardware that stole and continues to steal every bit of privacy from you. You think google and apple are saints and developed magical devices for the good of the people?

Your wrong devices were developed and built to extract the maximum amount of profit from you. And it's great at what it does! Because it's how it allows these companies to rack in trillions of dollars. Way more than they are actually worth.

All devices now have one key purpose.. figure you out and maximize your screen time. On apple your phone gives you a daily report. And when it shows that your screen time was 19 hours in a day, daily, for a whole week. That means 90% of your available time was spent looking at the screen your reading this on right now. Normal usage is between 1 to around 3 to 4 hours max or screen time. But more than 50% of phones and rising show that number now near 20 hours.

This isn't normal it's an addiction. And it's exactly what the tech industry wanted. We all fell for the trap even myself.

And for me its been a hard difficult time fighting to get this back.

If you really want to expose the truth about your addiction and allow my words to further prove how bad technology is. Enable this report on your apple devices and on android devices. Let your phone accurately tell you for yourself how much screen time you use.

Willing to bet most won't be single digits but rather double digit counts. And i want you to accept whatever your phone tells you. Because its the truth regardless if your brain accepts it or not.

As embarrassing as it maybe ill share mine. I have an average now of 15 hours screen time daily not counting other screens which will easily put me over 20 hours. But phone alone it used to be 22 hours average. But i've since been able to fight this hard to bring it down to 15 and will keep fighting till i have an average max of no more than 5 hours.

I share this because i wanted you to know that you don't have to fall for the addictiveness of the digital world. If its a natural reaction to grab your phone constantly.. that is the very definition of an addiction. Every time you think about touching your phone or any other tech for 4 times. Distract yourself 3 times with any other thing you can do and look at your phone once. If you reach for your phone 30 times in a day cut that down to 9 times.

It's not taking your devices away as much as it showing you there is a great big world around you outside of your digital devices. Look at the world. Use the world. Ground yourself with reality. Not digital.

And remember none of this falls on you. It's the tech industry's fault. Hope this helps.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 6

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Im ranting and getting this crap of my chest so feel free to skip this post as i know most people don't care for it. Go ahead skip it!



But for those that will read anyways.. here we go.

I can't make a video people watch all the way through. So im quitting im done. Before you push back i know about 5 of you do and this isn't about you if you do. Im talking about the bigger majority of viewers.

When my long videos average around 11 minutes and a majority of people that do click to watch will watch between 2 to 15 seconds max i wonder why they even stick around and keep coming back to my videos. It's a clear sign if you watch my long videos for 20 seconds or less that my video is not right for you. Go find another channel. And stop killing and ruining my recommendations. Because this here nearly instantly tanks recommendations fast.

I can'y make a video people are interested in and excited to engage and comment. I pose questions, i ask for opinions. Im literally doing everything i can yo engage people and give them opportunity to say something and over 90% of people remain passive. This again tanks recommendations. Ruins a videos chances. And shows youtube you hate my video.

Youtube looks at this.. how many people are show and how many click to watch. If they show my video to 1000 people and 50 or less watch.. already bad sign. If 30 of them skipped out 3 to 15 seconds in even worst sign. If there was only 4 likes that's bad too. And 0 comments is the nail in on the coffin. Recommendation's are dropped ans youtube moves the hell on,

Now if youtube shows it to 1000 people and 900 watch. This video quickly expands. If the video is 10 minutes and people watch between 8 and 10 minutes this may even setup to go viral. If 400 likes come in and 200 comments are made. Done! Video will reach real velocity and takes off and keeps expanding.

The viewer sets the tone of a channel. Meaning if most skip out, don't comment, don't interact, and are passive. That yells at youtube " this channel stinks" and youtube listens to you and puts the smack down on the creator and owner of that channel.


And it's not youtube saying my channel is horrible it is the thousands that watch my videos and are indifferent. Viewers like this send a clear sign that i suck at this. Im horrible and their silence and skipping of the videos is their way of saying give up already. Leave us alone.

Thats why i will. Im at fault and i blame no one else. Ill take this fall and just own it as my failure.

I know.. true actual fans are probably yelling at their screens saying "no leo stop it, don't say that! Don't give up"

If you think i shouldn't give up then help me drive this channel to the moon. Because really only you all who truly see a future for the channel are the only one's who have control to over power the naysayers by bringing in people who will actually appreciate my efforts. Instead of being just weighing the channel down.

Look if lose subscribers over this im already with it. Because honestly i wish some would leave already. It's nothing against them. But their actions are tanking the channel regardless of effort.

As long as some sit there skipping out on my videos and and not actually enjoying them youtube will listen to them by killing channel growth.

Im not deleting the channel. Im simply going to stop working for free. And if you made it this far and you believe the channel has potential... show me by pulling more people like yourself to come hang out with us and grow this channel. Because youtube will not find more people like you willing to give an authentic channel a true chance. So if youtube won't do anything then we have too.

But im done posting new videos. If i come back and see growth i may consider posting again. Other than that im walking away as of this post.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

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Some features of Ai i can get behind. Many of the videos i recently posted had Ai assisted thumbnail designs.

The unfortunate part is that the Ai systems did age me a bit on my photos lol. But the good part is that it slimmed my face ever so slightly.

The scary part is that my expressions were not ones i made. I think it learned from video analysis how to predict and model my expression according to the design.

But overall.. it took one of the most frustrating parts about making videos and made it much easier. I can give it command prompts and it develops something over me struggling to figure out how to put a half way decent one together.

Titles have been Ai assisted too. But at the end I still had full control over final design and what gets uploaded.

Together it's why this gave me a boost in posting videos. It all became fun again.

Some shorts i have posted recently are just clips from the videos i made. For that one i use a clipping service that automatically picks highlights from my video and turns them into bite sized shorts.

It's so less draining with a little help. It's like i hired a team of assistance. This is why you probably noticed i went from barely saying much to saying so much haha. 😁

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

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Leave a LIKE if you're AUTISTIC! DO IT!! 😁

It helps the channel grow! Subscribe does even more! You know you want to!

And thank you in advance if you do!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 17

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Im celebrating. I re-sparked my joy again in making videos. Thats why you noticed an explosion of shorts and a few long forms here.

AI has given me alot of mental capacity back when i use it as a tool to design thumbnails for me. I still command it to look along the lines of what i like to design but i let it design with what fits a bit better for youtube.

And im using Ai for clip creations too from long videos.

It became fun again. And not only that i have a new stronger mindset. Even if a video gets 5 views. That is perfect!! Because i come to realize 5 views among 50 videos... lol... thats still quite a bit of people. So 5 views is my new average baseline for average growth. Above 5 views and i found a potentially high interest subject. Lower than that and i found a thumbnail i need to adjust hahahaha. 😂

It feels great to be back!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 5

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I call this post "hollow shell of a lost man".

When i hit 40 last year i entered into a phase or life called mid-life. For me this is hitting the floor before springing back up.

It's noticing im not 20 anymore. Injuries take a bit longer to heal and decisions i make have a stronger consequence than they had before. I had to give something i love.. rollercoasters. With a bad heart valve, and a condition called SVT, one ride could mean my last moment in life. I can't manage to stay awake as long as i used too. And i realized that according to medical literatures i have approximately just another 40 years or so and then thats it. It's a profound thought that for me made me check myself, And make changes.

Of course nothing is set in stone these are just guesses but its what i have yo account for. Just to give me some guidance and direction. I could last much longer or go to sleep tonight and that's all folks. Point i make is that no one knows.

This is why i said "hollow shell of a lost man". Because i feel lost. And i've been hollowed out almost to prepare for what many would call the second part to life.

I don't want to spend my last days in the future regretful that i didn't live. I didn't accomplish anything and that i was a life that came and went without a single impact to this world. The first man to go through life as a ghost. The world didn't know who he was. He left nothing behind.

Thats why i've been exhausting myself to the bones to expose myself. To be known. To make a difference even if only a little bit.

If things go my way i am beyond confident ill leave a legacy and impact that will go on way beyond after im gone. If they don't, then when my life leaves me ill just be forgotten.

What drives me and ive said this a million times already is that i went to leave absolutely everything i build for my nephew who is autistic too.

I would love to pay his college for him. Pay for his certifications on whatever he wants to study. Help him be a man much better than i ever was. And be happy and in peace that i can rest knowing the company is in good hands.

Nothing is ever for me. I hope to never have my name on anything as i rather be known as the kind stranger that made the world a better place.

Im a hollow shell and lost. But i hope to be found and full by when my time comes. 👍

2 months ago | [YT] | 3

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This will scare you!

This very phone in your hand that you are using to read this message is monitoring you. Here is the data i have to show this. It blew me away.

How did Best Buy know i needed a specific light before i even looked it up?

It followed my search results. And gathered keywords from conversations.

Previously to searching in store for prices i did my homework online. Only place i looked this up was on google.

When i installed the best buy app it captured that shared data and when i opened it up and searched the keyword light it bought up one already discounted knowing usually my pattern is to search for discounts.

Curious i got in my car and went to a best buy further away. Saw the light and it didn't have a discount on it and was very expensive.

But best buy switched to digital labels instead of paper sticker labels. That same label i was looking at suddenly updated and had the discount on it.

The app actively tracking me pin pointed my location in a store and the stores computers dynamically switched it up.

Now im really curious i went to another store and again it was the same thing.

I didn't buy it. But at a test went home and gave it a little time but kept the app on the phone. I noticed it was doing something because my phone was always hot and battery drained fast.

So in talking to people on the phone i dropped keywords for different products. A few days later went to the store and saw these products actively change price right as im standing in front of them.

But here is the difference this time when i went to pay for the light best buy would only give me the discount if it was together with a laptop. It knew i had a strict budget so the staff guided me to a laptop that was open boxed and guess what? The price was in my range.

So not only did best buy make a profit off of me buy it doubled it by getting to buy 2 items instead of one.

I am the product myself. Because through my phone i create data points that these companies use to manipulate me and maximize their profits.

Just as they are more then likely doing with you too. They know our trigger points and what gets us over the threshold to make the purchase. Why because they have our fill profiled data.

They know your true ability to pay and how much
They know your patterns to wait you out with deals discounts to trap you in a sale you will not refuse.
Then they double profits and profit max on you by taking that pressure point and saying i know you want this product at this price with this discount and im giving it to you just as long as you buy this other product with it. You don't need that second product though. But no discount if you don't take it.

Ai has a way to take millions of dats points you freely give up online and weaponize it against you. Take full advantage of you. And make sure you are always broke by knowing exactly when you leave your house to buy anything it's already tracking your pin points knowing your on the move and ready to move on you as soon as you arrive at a store.

Im confident in this because it was done to me! And i saw the whole plan in action in front of my own two eyes.

All the more reason why im trying to smash this iphone on the ground. Im fed up and sick of being a lab rat being tested and studied. I want my privacy and my control back.

2 months ago | [YT] | 10

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Whey protein powder - $55
Toilet paper - $60
Little slice of salmon - $26

Three items - $141 dollars WTF????

Bag of chips -$4.50 (not the big bag)
2 things of cookies -$6
Half dozen eggs - $8.50
Cartoon of milk - $8
Beef jerk (small size) - $9

5 items - under $40 really??

Bag of rice - $10
4 can of beans - $10
Chicken thighs - $17
Seasoning - $5 (three small containers)

Cost of meal items - $42 dollars how??

In total around 13 items total grocery bill $240 rounded out.

In comparison in 2008 these 13 items would of cost me at the very max 70 dollars.

Even worst news these numbers will not go down. They will either remain where they are or rise higher. But if im proven wrong thats a great thing because everyone wins.

Let this sink in! Are you able to tell me you're perfectly ok and happy and satisfied with your groceries you need to live tripling to quadrupling every few years?

Soon enough you will need to be a millionaire just to eat. Im sorry but that's BS!

2 months ago | [YT] | 8