Soundwaves from Noodle

 Hey everyone, it’s Jack/Noodle here with a very special post. I decided today instead of a regular post where I deep dive or relate sparks to autism, I celebrate one year, or one trip around the sun of this blog. To celebrate I thought I’d share some of my art and behind the scenes and thank yous to people i haven’t openly thanked but feel like they’re so important to me.  (Me and my besties getting a sweet treat to celebrate) I began this blog October 2023, with the intention of sharing my love of Sparks and connecting it to me understanding my autism and its hopeful diagnosis. Growing up, I’ve always ventured far to share my point of view and often had people ignore me because I was too different. I chose a blog over a video format because I have days where physical speech is overwhelming as I know what to say but it’s an ocean of words. Some days I want to say so much but my stomach aches trying to make sense of everything, so when I write I feel a lot better.  Behind...

 Hey everyone, it is Jack/Noodle here again. I was planning this episode for the past few days as I have been using this blog as example of me sharing my work/behind the scenes as part of my university work and it’s my proudest work in terms of my writing. Before I begin todays deep dive I thought I’d like to say this episode I created around a sparks song that I feel gets often overlooked, many know it for the infamous UK interview where the Mael brothers (Ron especially) expressed their anger for a low budget which was only enough to record the song and get a bit of cardboard. Yes that song is Change. A standalone song (it’s on compilation albums and I believe it’s sometimes bundled with Music You Can Dance To). So feel free to get a tea, coffee, water or whatever and feel free to add and contribute in comments your own viewpoints, I’m more than happy whenever I share these ideas/concepts and someone understands them or adds their spin on it; I got suggested I make more deep dive...

 Hey everyone, it’s Jack/Noodle here. I’m 2 weeks into my final year of university and I’m already exhausted and feeling sleepy from hearing the assignments for this year. I decided to take a step back from this and update my blog with a deeply personal post which I wasn’t sure how to write, but since today felt particularly awful and it rained this afternoon and now I’m well fed, had a milkshake and have a plan for a load of jobs over the next few days I thought today would be perfect for a deep post around something many neurodivergent people struggle with and that is socialising and I thought I’d use sparks to show the positives in my “social” life and also share the negatives in my life (not blaming sparks for this, the positives of this band hugely outweigh any bad things)  Me and my fellow nuerodiverse friends, not real as I’m respectful of privacy  So to begin I will say it is very common to find an autistic person who struggles in socialising or keeping friendship...