Collie Ennis

Yeah, it's weird.

I mean, like for me, working full time in a regular job and then doing the conservation work on the outside, research associate in zoology and then working with the Herpetological Society, building ponds and doing all that was fantastic.

But I could always step away from it.

But now I'm kind of full-time in it.

It's a very different energy.

It's deadly, but it is a heavy industry to be involved in.

And you're constantly having to kind of communicate this message that nature is wonderful and nature is brilliant, but also things aren't great and we need to do something about it.

So that kind of, it being full-time now, it's taking a little bit of getting used to, if that makes sense.

um including you i found out a long time ago um i was in tech as electrician and i couldn't get colors right i couldn't do any mats i couldn't do anything i was just all over the shop but i could tell you who uh beat batman up in issue 27 of dc comics from 1974

Do you know what I mean?

So I had a very weird kind of a mind.

And I could tell you how to breed giant African horn frogs at a certain time of year or whatever, all these weird stuff that I was mad into.

So one of the lectures actually in Kevin Street was really sound.

And he gave me a test.

read this, look at this, how many cows here, all that kind of stuff, you know.

And he came back to me a couple of weeks later and he said, you've got ADHD with autism mixed in and dyslexia.

And the only thing I remember about it was dyslexia because I was thinking, well, that explains why I'm shy at maths.

so so that was it and i never really thought about the other thing because it didn't mean that to me nobody talked about it like it was only me early 20s at the time so it was the dyslexia was the big thing but it was only years later that i was reminded by uh my wife that that i had the the autism and and adhd what what has me thinking about it is

Eh, it's like I said, it's been a mad year and like there's a lot of downtime that I would have had in the old job where I could read or listen to, you know, people talking about Bigfoot or whatever.

It's just something that I'd be absolutely nothing to do with the heaviness of the conservation work or just communicating with people all the time.