YearDot
Three months ago, my Dad passed on to me details about a new TV and internet project being planned by So Television, a production company owned by Graham Norton. They were looking for some young people to follow around for a year. I decided to apply. After lengthy interviews, heaps of forms, and weeks on tenterhooks and beating off a few thousand others, I am in.
YearDot is a project following myself and 14 other “interesting” young adults for a year. This will take two key forms. Firstly, the internet. I now have my own space where I will post regular blogs, video blogs (about 5 minutes a day), and other information about me over the next coming year. Secondly, via television. Channel 4 have commissioned the project, and they will also be showing 10 programs about the 15 of us in September, December, March, and June (estimates). I will be filmed about once every three weeks.
In short, this is a massive undertaking for me, and I have to admit, I am a bit scared about what it will mean. However, I hope to use this opportunity to show the public what life with Asperger’s Syndrome is really like. The good, and the bad.
Until today (June 30th) there has been a media blackout about YearDot, however that has ended and project is now live so you learn more about the project, me and the other participants at www.yeardot.co.uk
However, this opportunity comes at a cost. With university, the project, and everything else I will be doing, time will be somewhat of a commodity, and because I will be doing regular video blogs for the project, I feel this blog must come to an end, at least for now. I plan to continue blogging here once the YearDot project is over at the end of June 2008.
I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this blog over the past two years. I will admit, I have probably spent about a day in total staring blankly at the computer screen thinking “what in hell do I write?!” But it has also been fun, and I have enjoyed your feedback. I worked out that for this, I have spent about 125 hours in total writing these blogs, but it has been worth every minute.
I would like to take a moment to thank my Dad and Anna, my editors, who between them must have spent almost as long editing my blogs as it took me to write them. I would also like to thank my Dad, my Mum and Anna, who have all given me ideas and inspiration. I would also like to thank my Dad for always reminding me to make sure I put up a post. They have all worked hard to make this blog possible, and I would like to thank them for all their hard work.
I would also like to mention CASDOK who for the past year or so has made many encouraging comments – it is nice to know that someone is reading my work!
So this is it, my last post, for now at least. I would like to thank you for reading this, and I hope you have found it useful. As for now, I hope to see you over at yeardot at
http://www.yeardot.co.uk/whoweare-10/josh-muggleton.html and my associated myspace account at http://myspace.com/jmuggleton
Joshua Muggleton – About to begin the first year, of the rest of my life
YearDot is a project following myself and 14 other “interesting” young adults for a year. This will take two key forms. Firstly, the internet. I now have my own space where I will post regular blogs, video blogs (about 5 minutes a day), and other information about me over the next coming year. Secondly, via television. Channel 4 have commissioned the project, and they will also be showing 10 programs about the 15 of us in September, December, March, and June (estimates). I will be filmed about once every three weeks.
In short, this is a massive undertaking for me, and I have to admit, I am a bit scared about what it will mean. However, I hope to use this opportunity to show the public what life with Asperger’s Syndrome is really like. The good, and the bad.
Until today (June 30th) there has been a media blackout about YearDot, however that has ended and project is now live so you learn more about the project, me and the other participants at www.yeardot.co.uk
However, this opportunity comes at a cost. With university, the project, and everything else I will be doing, time will be somewhat of a commodity, and because I will be doing regular video blogs for the project, I feel this blog must come to an end, at least for now. I plan to continue blogging here once the YearDot project is over at the end of June 2008.
I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this blog over the past two years. I will admit, I have probably spent about a day in total staring blankly at the computer screen thinking “what in hell do I write?!” But it has also been fun, and I have enjoyed your feedback. I worked out that for this, I have spent about 125 hours in total writing these blogs, but it has been worth every minute.
I would like to take a moment to thank my Dad and Anna, my editors, who between them must have spent almost as long editing my blogs as it took me to write them. I would also like to thank my Dad, my Mum and Anna, who have all given me ideas and inspiration. I would also like to thank my Dad for always reminding me to make sure I put up a post. They have all worked hard to make this blog possible, and I would like to thank them for all their hard work.
I would also like to mention CASDOK who for the past year or so has made many encouraging comments – it is nice to know that someone is reading my work!
So this is it, my last post, for now at least. I would like to thank you for reading this, and I hope you have found it useful. As for now, I hope to see you over at yeardot at
http://www.yeardot.co.uk/whoweare-10/josh-muggleton.html and my associated myspace account at http://myspace.com/jmuggleton
Joshua Muggleton – About to begin the first year, of the rest of my life
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posted by Joshua at
10:44 PM
1 Comments:
Wow! How exciting! You truly are an inspirational young man and I wish you every success and happiness.
I was going to ask you today if you would consider joining the Autism Hub (http://www.autism-hub.co.uk/) which is a collection of the best autistic blogs around, and I apologise for not thinking of it sooner as now I am too late! Maybe you will consider it for the future, as you and your blog have so much to offer.
All the best Casdok x
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