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I've had people ask if I was high before, so maybe it is like being high. You should ask someone who has done illegal drugs if you are acting like them when they are high. Because if you do drugs you won't be able to tell because it just adds symptoms on top of the symptoms you already have.

My intestines were most certainly leaky, they were severely damaged at the time of my celiac diagnosis...I got a biopsy taken as is standard, but it was not necessary as the gastroenterologist could clearly see the visual damage. All celiacs who eat gluten have leaky guts. I personally figure it's probably a positive adaptation, is possibly the reason I am not dead from my celiac disease, since leaky guts bring in the good as well as the bad, and there was no way I was absorbing the good.

Hard-wired brains don't exist, those're computers.

There are medical tests for candidiasis. I believe small intestinal candidiasis exists and probably goes largely undiagnosed. If I truly wanted to know if I had it I would go to the border and see some lab in the states and pay to get it tested. I'm not sure

I haven't taken aspirin in years because I recall it not doing much of anything for me. I take ibuprofen when I'm in pain. I definitely have issues with coffee and chocolate, preserved meats and high sulfite foods beyond gluten and dairy. Bananas used to give me headaches, as well as splenda and tyramine. Tyramine (presumably) still gives me headaches, happens if I eat too much leftover meat for too long. Bananas don't. I just avoid all artificial sweeteners.

If ADHD and ASD were only due to gut issues, why is it only a developmental disorder? Why is it seemingly not a thing for people to develop these issues later in life then? If it were then they wouldn't be disorders one must get as a child...the psychological community doesn't require an explanation for behaviours, all they do is categorize.

The psychological community is doing more than categorizing. Sure, categories are great; I love categories (I'm autistic for heaven's sake), but when you've got something as amazing as the human brain to study, you're going to want to do more than categorize the ways it can go wrong.

We most certainly do require explanations for behaviors. But even when some problematic behaviors don't have a known explanation yet, we still have to provide support to those people. We can do research 'til we're blue in the face (and we usually do), but until the results come in, describing the behavior and recommending common-sense therapy is all we can do. We can't very well sit there and do nothing, with people who need help not getting it; not that therapy doesn't have risks, but there are some basic things that you can do to improve coping and mental health even when you have no clue what is going on in someone's brain. Just sitting there and listening is helpful. Social support is helpful. Useful activity. Sun. Exercise. Support physical health; manage stress. Increase acceptance.

Psychology is a science, people. It's not just some random guy sitting in an office and asking you to talk about your mother. We design experiments, measure things carefully, test theories, and run clinical trials. We've come a long way since Freud.

Autism as "different brain wiring" is a well-researched and confirmed theory. Autistic people's brains are different from NTs' brains on a microscopic and macroscopic level. On tests that measure performance on mental tasks, autistics perform differently. The conclusion: Autistic people's brains are physically different.

When that difference starts, and what causes it, is not as easily pinned down. We know there's a large genetic influence, larger than most non-single-gene disorders. But we don't know what activates those genes or how they interact with each other and with the environment--or, more precisely, we know a lot of things that *could* happen, a lot of things we've observed to happen occasionally, but we don't know the full picture.

Just because psychologists don't know everything about autism, doesn't mean we can't help. We know a lot about the brain and a lot about people in general. We know a lot about how to support people who want to learn and interact and deal with stress. We're doing the research, and we have a fuzzy picture of what autism is and how autistic minds work; we can use that fuzzy picture to do some good even though it isn't crystal-clear yet.

Sorry Callista, re-reading that last sentence of mine yes I made it sound more reaching than I meant. I meant that unlike regular, biologically driven medicine of this day and age, psychology won't be timid about creating a diagnosis for something that exists even if there's not a known cause for it. The point being that if adult-onset autism and adult-onset ADHD were at all common, there'd be category for it.

"I firmly believe that the increased prevalence of ADHD and ASD is diet correlated. It's the only thing that's changed big time over the last generation or two that can explain the decline in mental health in general."

I have to disagree with your second sentence. Firstly, I'm not even sure diets have changed all that much in the past couple of generations. What food products have changed significantly since the 50s? Have diets really changed all that much? Just look at that thread about the organic food consumption chart correlated to the rise in autism :-p Diets have changed in that people eat MORE, but there's evidence that that's even caused by things listed below too.
Secondly, and far more importantly, everything from the building supplies we use to the fabric we wear and sit on to the requirement of having fire retardants on everything to nanotechnology to different pesticides. Sure, some of these things are ingested, and some of these things are probably purposefully added to food, but many others of them are things we touch and breath in everyday. We are bombarded by new chemicals all the time. Unfortunately, standards for determining toxicity of the use of compounds are based on what's enough to kill rats and mice etc, not by how much is enough to alter their behaviour.

i think happy flappy stimming is probably like a good high.

Well, although I do not deny that the normal diet has changed, and mostly not for the better, I would like to add that Aspergers is a fairly new diagnosis, and therefor it's to be expected that the numbers are rising, because people that were young when this diagnosis didn't exist, are now getting diagnosed, and people that came after that are getting recognized. ADHD people have often been seen as difficult kids, but now people have more knowledge about this condition, which in turn results in a rise in diagnoses.

That being said, a good healthy diet is always positive, and can help with both physical and psychological problems.

The serious problem with the video is that all the issues it cites as being wrong with studies and our diet etc can apply to itself. This video is just a dressed up ad. It was pretty neat watching the fda process of approval of aspartame though.

Candida's been known for decades, a few years ago my butt. My dad remembers candida cures.

Also shows why doctors ignored my complaints and told me to eat probiotic yogurt to get better, which of course did absolutely nothing for me. Tunnel mind supports miracle cure-alls.

I have no idea that if yeast infections are epidemic why they aren't a regular part of physician's tests.

Probiotics aren't casein free unfortunately, the vast majority of them are cultured on milk.

Unfortunately I've looked for proper research regarding candida infections and health. They don't really exist.

My diet isn't that different from what my parents ate and then fed me.

I seriously doubt artificial sweeteners feed yeast...artificial sweeteners don't 'feed' anything, that's why they're no calories. Kill off your digestive flora more like it.

If I try any diet next, it's going to be an incredibly low carb one.

I don't know how having Asperger's is like being high, but I have wondered what it is like to actually be high.