I'm pretty sure you aren't Al.
Welcome.
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There's two types of people here, the ones who want to eat me, and the ones who want to stick me up their butt. Which are you?
I'm not going to make any hasty decisions about which orifice to use lol.
How did you find us?
Thorugh a WP forum patron.
How did you find us?
Weed made me paranoid enough to think people were coming to take me away to be locked up. I spent a full night locking and re-locking doors and windows. It was not pleasant and happened when I was only 17. There are side effects for some people. I'm not the only one that has had that kind of experience.
I'm unusual in that I started when I was 21, a relatively safe age, having already suffered a paranoid delusion that people were following me, when I was completely sober, following adverse life events. I had become depressed and suicidal, and although I hated smoking and the idea of smoking, I reached a point in my life where I had to try something, and weed is what was available. It was like a magical experience for me. Never been that low since, although I have my low points.
And I drink too, so sometimes people will give me The Lecture, 'you take two depressants so that's why you are depressed'.
As if central nervouses system depressants and brain depression were the same thing lolololol. It's not for me.
People say not to mix depressants because it can suppress breathing, I'm pretty sure I'm solid in that regard too. It would take way more drugs than I'm comfortable to take to suppress my breathing. That's from personal experience of my body, I'm not sure how a scentific paper written about other people could be more relevant to me than my own lived experience but there you go.
The 'side effect' of weed for me, was seeing through the mind control that kept me in my minimum wage job, and quintupling my earnings in as many job moves, to the point where I am now a high earner. (you know weed isn't cheap in this country either... )
My own lived experience runs totally 180 degrees against the mainstream narrative for how life should work, I didn't go to uni. I smoked up and watched lectures on youtube.
The brain is plastic, and one theory of autism is that it might be hyperplastic. I think that mine might be, at the least.