[Speaking Swedish]
Just kidding, that was Swedish.
Hi everyone, I'm Presley and I am one of the new members which is absolutely...
Transtastic. So this week is introduction week
and personally, if I'm going to be listening to someone talk, I like to know a little
bit about where they're coming from.
so I thought I would give you a brief backstory of the
almost two decades I've been inhabiting this physical vessel. So if you didn't already assume
I'm from Sweden. I was born in Stockholm in 1995
and my parents separated when I was 7, but they're still friends.
When I was 10 I started going to a new school and it was like
this class, but we had like, we have more time
in art than the other students so it was like
art, an art program kind of, so we drew a lot
I don''t know, and at the same time I started to feel
bad. Like I started to feel sad a lot of the time
and I didn't like going to school even though I like learning. I just felt
different from the other kids you know I just
felt like, I felt like there was no one who felt like me who was like me
and I didn't understand why and I had stress-induced migraines and I had anxiety
and I didn't know what is was and I didn't know why I had it
and that went on and started to get a little bit better when I was
14/15, um, like as I grew up
and then when I was 16 i switched schools again because Sweden has a school system
where when you're sixteen
unless you take a year off you start going to something that's called the gymnasium
which is basically like a mix between high school and college
so it's like it's not really a college but it's not really high school. It's like, you choose
what kinda
you choose your gymnasium based upon what you want to do in life
um so I went to one that would make me be a certified zookeeper
So yes, I am a certified zookeeper because I thought you know I want to work with
animals I want to be, I want to study animals
For the rest of my life, but that changed but yeah
So I went there and I met some amazing people and
one thing led to another and everything was just going to great and I was doing so great
and everything was wonderfull
and then I had this great relapse when I was like 18
and I started to feel really really bad again and started having these really
dark thoughts, just, I started selfharming for the first time
so it was not good at all. When I graduated
um, I had a job, but I couldn't hold a job because of my anxiety
and, like, I couldn't even hold a part time job. It was awful
and then, um, I questioned my gender identity in 2014
and then in early 2015 I realized, I came to terms with being
a transgender guy and when I came out and people started using
my name, Presley and he/him pronouns
it was like everything's switched, it was really cool, it was like
like that and like 80 percent of my anxiety just fell away
now I have a full-time job and
it's working I mean I've only had it for two weeks, but it's like, I can feel that it's
different
from what I felt before, because I don't have anxiety about it during the weekend
coming out has just like changed everything for me and it helps that
a lot of my friends and my family
is accepting, like my parents are really accepting and
and, like not everyone, but it's like the most important people
are accepting and loving and supporting and it's great
and I feel really really fortunate to have that kind of circumstance and I
found that
during these times of darkness and feeling really
really bad, something that helped me a lot was
certain media and certain inspiring people like
TV shows and movies and songs and books and
people in the public eye who were doing good things and it was just like
these things meant a lot to me like they meant the world to me
and they still do and that's why I do not want to become a zookeeper anymore
I do not want to become, I'm not want to study animals anymore
I still love animals but I don't do that. I want to become an actor
And I want to write movies and act in movies and want to write books
And I want to write songs and write poems that inspire people to believe in themselves already
said this is in my audition video, but still
I'm just really passionate about this, about, like, I don't know, like creating content that
means something
so now you guys know a little bit about what kinda foundation I'm standing on
it's actually L'Oreal True Match
but of course our pasts are not all there is to us
I also love Disney movies and I love making playlists for like
every possible occasion, I think I have like 3
playlists. 53, 3 playlists, yeah I make so many playlists, I have like 3 of them.
Um, no I have like 53 playlists on Spotify
it's getting out of hand and I believe in aliens
And I believe aliens have visited Earth, fight me, fight me.
Fight me man. And I watch a lot of movies and TV shows
I love supernatural and I love mash and I love Game of
Thrones and The Walking Dead and Orange is the New Black
And um... probably something else I forgot to mention
because there's a lot and sometimes I play music and I own this cap
with pineapples on in different colors yeah
I really do consider it an honor to get to be on this channel
because this has been my favorite YouTube channel since like
mmm ever since i subscribe and its
just such an honor to get to be part of this and for as long as you have me
because the members are all so fantastic and they all have their own style of
videos and they all have their own personalities and obviously they're not
all close at each other because that would be kind of
freakish. This is just a great channel and it's just such an
honor and such a fun thing to get to be part of
I think so I'm really excited and all the new members seem really cool as well
am um I'm really looking forward to it
and I'm I'm really really really happy to be here
I also have a personal channel if you would like to see more
of this beautiful beautiful face, so I'll put a link to that in the description below
And you know what, before I go, let's do a fist-bump, all right, just you and me
Just you and me together. Just just us, just the two of us
How intimate. Let's go fist-bump, all right? Just fist-bump your screen
Alright? You ready? Here we go.... Fist-bump.
Amazing! Alright, haha, I'll see you guys next week.
Thanks for watching. Bye.