Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. This is Kevin Don. If you are a regular listener, you may have noticed that this is the first new episode for a whole month. I want to talk a little bit about why this was and what I've done to get back to speaking with you, hopefully, more regularly.

So in full disclosure, I took a month off for my mental health.

And the reason I'm talking about this is that I know many people listen to this show,

and therefore it's statistically

probable that listeners may experience something similar to my experience. I also just want to state

the obvious up front that I'm not a doctor, I'm not a medical professional, and this is just my

own personal experience.

Now, you may also know if you've been listening that I am now, guess what is commonly

referred to as neurodiverse. To be specific, I've been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome,

which is now just grouped in with other things and referred to as

autism spectrum disorder. There are many different things that this means for me and many

different ways it impacts my life. Most notably, I find it really difficult to know what people mean, what different life scenarios mean and how to navigate them.

For the past seven years, I've had a best friend, or I'll call her an anchor person.

This person was invaluable to me in keeping me on an even keel, and I trusted their advice

about things I needed to do above all else.

Unfortunately, as can happen in life, that friendship experienced some challenges, and I lost

my anchor person.

This was a huge blow to me because I now suddenly had to try and navigate

things whilst flying completely blind. On top of this, you may know that I'm not just a sports

coach, but I've also spent significant efforts to try and change my life for the better.

And to this end, I spent the last year or so trying to do as well as possible at my degree,

which is in philosophy, so that I could move to an elite university.

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