Redoing☆Childhood

On Sunday, I wanted to get in some more practice on my skates so James and I went to the park. Not a huge amount of improvement since last time but I'm getting there. Watch the video until the end for the big finish!   James had a discount code for Matrix Virtual Reality, a VR arcade in Digbeth so we decided to book a session there after we'd gone back home to eat and drop off my skating stuff.  James had a lot of experience with VR and when we got there, he began chatting with the guy working there about all sorts of things I didn't understand (turns out the guy was a massive weeb as well and we got his Instagram lol). I didn't have much experience with VR aside from a couple of times that James had let me use his headset to play Beat Saber so it was all mostly a new experience for me. The first thing we played was a paint-balling game that James and I played against each other. There were random balls and other special objects around the area and you had to pick them ...

Cheerleading My first encounter with cheerleading came when I was in my first year of secondary school. It was the first time I'd seen anything to do with cheerleading in the UK, before that I'd just considered it to be an 'American thing'.  I remember seeing a poster in the P.E. block at my school that advertised an allstar cheerleading club. I only considered it for like 5 seconds before my low self-confidence got the better of me and I pushed the thought aside. I hadn't even been diagnosed with autism yet but what I did know was that I was awkward and clumsy so there was no way I'd be able to do something as athletic and complex as cheerleading.  The type of P.E. sessions we did changed from term to term and around that time we were doing gymnastics. Gymnastics is a large part of cheerleading. The sport also includes dance and stunts. I absolutely hated any form of P.E. because in my mind I wasn't the least bit athletic, was terrible at sports, and plus ...

In September of last year I moved to London for university. Cycling seems so much more common in London than my hometown of Birmingham and I often noticed the bikes that were around and available for the public to use. Admittedly I'd gotten pretty out of shape over the extra long, lockdown-lengthened holidays we'd been having (not that I was ever partically in shape in the first place) and was looking for more fun ways of excerising.  There's a saying that goes, "It's just like riding a bike!" which basically means that even if you don't perform a particular action for a while you'll be able to get back into it easily. Despite the saying, in the past that hadn't been the case for me with cycling; I had to relearn the skill about 3 times when I was kid. I would learn while I was away at a summer camp or something then I'd go home and not really have the opportunity to do it again for the rest of the year. Then, when I went back to camp again the...