It's been a long time since I've visited WP, and in WP is where I learned about GFCF for the first time. I have a pretty objective mind, and my carreer just improved this trait of mine. Having said that, I want to share my experience on GFCF diet. First of all I want to express my disappointment on how little information there is on the net about adult GFCF, it's like Aspergers is a childhood syndrome, that disappears when you reach 15 or so.
So to make things short, I decided to go on GFCF diet, I'm a 28 year old male, a little overweight but not much, mix of races, and with a strong will. I was on strict GFCF diet for 6 months, avoided all casein (milk, cheese etc.) and gluten (wheat, and every cereal except corn). I mostly lived on corn and beans, very abundant in my country lol. I didn't notice much difference for the first month, but around the third I definitely saw changes. I found myself thinking about past experiences where suddenly I understood what other people were expecting from me, or what was I supposed to say or do. With that memories, came very strong feelings of shame, that have been hard to swallow. I also started being more aware of my own feelings. This of course didn't happen all of a sudden. I learned that besides the diet, there are very important psychological barriers that you must go through so that the diet takes effect as it's supposed to. It's like there is an interaction between the benefits of the diet and your current psychological state. Little or no benefit comes from the diet if there are no psychological changes as well.
My thoughts on this is that after so many years of not much social interaction, and little social learning, you develop a worldview that doesn't include social knowledge. And of course that view is wrong, because you don't have the whole picture. You have to break from this, and open your mind again, and see things with a different color. This is everything but easy. I guess that's why GFCF in an adult is not as dramatic as in a child, whose brain is still fresh and doesn't have old neuron connections tightened together.
To not make an overly long and boring post, I just want to add that lately, after more than 6 months on GFCF, I've noticed I'm more able to act (like and actor). I've always known that to be socially able you have to have acting skills in one degree or another, but I always thought of that like a far away thing, that is above my skills. But lately I've been able to do it, at least in some extent. For example I went to a job interview the other day, and noticed that I was able to create an 'act', to look more confident and able than i really was. I also noticed that I'm more able some days and not so much other days, just like with regular asp.
that's a little on what I would like to share about my experiences on the diet. I don't know if it works as some people claim, but now I'm convinced it does work in some way.
26 Jan 2009, 1:22 pm
