Dr. Steven Novella debunked Seneff's wild claims
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andrethemoogle wrote:
Sorry, but I can't understand why would you want to modify your behavior and not just accept the "quirks" you have with being on the spectrum.
It sounds almost like you want a cure (I'm not saying that you are saying this, it just sounds like it).
It sounds almost like you want a cure (I'm not saying that you are saying this, it just sounds like it).
Because my symptoms weren't mere quirks. I was suicidally depressed & extremely frustrated with everything in life. Highly anxious. I had very very hypersensitive hearing. I could think & calculate, but not do. I have ideas, but couldn't apply myself and didn't know why. I didn't fit in at all with friends or in the workplace etc. Despite my education, I didn't work much at all for a few years because I couldn't. I was beyond sick of all of these things and was highly motivated to rise up from my "rock bottom" & never ever ever think or feel or be like that again so long as I could help it. If others have never hit such a rock bottom, then perhaps they're not nearly as motivated to improve themselves.
I could not accept being "done" before I'd ever really started. It wasn't an option. I have business plans, ideas & ideals, other goals in life and sports/recreation/travel as well as life goals in terms of love & relationships.. all things that were once impossible for me to work towards achieving or obtaining in my life.. and now, one by one I'm rattling them off my to do list as I go through the motions and continue working hard on myself and my life in every aspect. Potential is a terrible thing to waste. I didn't want to be someone who sat isolated in my room thinking I had some potential I ought to be utilizing to engineer or improve something etc but couldn't due to some unknown neurological constraint. I couldn't accept that sort of fate myself and once I started figuring myself and my health out I gave myself no choice but to continue improving myself in every way I could in order to get myself into the kind of shape required to make myself capable of achieving these and other goals.
I'm now a whole lot healthier (mentally and physically) & happier and wealthier than ever. I'm on my way up. I have wonderful friends in my life, have been back to work for the last year and a half or two, have gotten back to the sports I love, and am working towards many other goals I have for myself. Every single day I do things I now take for granted that were impossible for me only 2-3 short years ago. I'm looking forward to seeing what else I can accomplish in the years to come.
Like I've described before, I'm living a second life thanks to learning and doing what I have because of my herbalist friend and his naturopathic doctor father to whom I am forever grateful. I'd have never read and learned and done what I have without them in my life and I remind them of that at any opportunity - especially Thanksgiving & Christmas.
I continue to share what I've learned and done here because I believe what I've learned to be the root cause of my symptoms being exacerbated is likely a common cause of ASD symptoms in others and can help others willing to try any of these things for themselves. So, despite criticism from others, I'll hang around and chat about these things openly with whomever would care to discuss them.
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