Optimism and Reality: Goldfish21 Response to me

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GF, you would be an awesome boss to work work and here is why. You would inspire loyalty from because you would take time to invest in me. THat is because you believed in me. If I was able to get a job with someone like yourself my attitude would turn around so fast my head would spin. Gf, you're a long term thinker just like the captains of industries of old like Henry Ford. He thought long term and made sure employees could afford his product. I would return my loyalty to you by being a hard and dedicated worker. Yeah, I may be slow and mess up but I will work hard and improve. I would not work for another company even if they offered more money and that is they don't offer what you would offer which is loyalty and belief in me.

Thanks - I usually take & upload a sunset pic almost every night. And it's kinda funny that you just noticed that.. I'm probably the most anti-Trump & Co. person on this entire forum.

Okay. I've never ever claimed to be symptom free nor NT, only the truth: That doing what I do results in dramatically increased ASD functioning levels and I'm able to live the life I do in the social world. I can work, play, live and socialize with others just fine relative to the none of the above I was capable of 6 years ago.

As I've shared here before, I was "diagnosed," (yes, officially) with ADHD & prescribed Dexedrine for that. I put it in "quotations," because after it was brought to my attention by others, I researched it myself, as well as the diagnostic criteria and testing, and diagnosed it myself and then told my GP. He confirmed (because he has credentials - and a prescription pad!) and then thanked me for bringing the diagnostic criteria & tests to his attention so that he's able to use them to diagnose other patients. The prescription, which officially on paper was written by my GP, was also my own. I researched the f**k out of all pharmaceutical options, read user reviews etc, and then told him exactly what I wanted - he went away and read some book & then came back and said, "Well, yeah.. you're right. Here ya go." and that was that. I lucked out that the generic drug company that produces dextroamphetamine in 5mg IR tablets for local pharmacies just happened to be the highest rated one, too, by end users - even higher rated than the original formula by whichever drug maker makes it.

But I stopped taking that s**t a few years ago and no longer need it for the things it was good for. It's side effects and health detriments outweigh it's benefits. Plus I no longer need it for the things I took it for, so, no point in poisoning myself with unnecessary pharmaceuticals. I have a bunch of them sitting in a drawer for if and when I ever feel the need to take one, so like, maybe if I've been up for 24h and some whacko decides it's time to fight me.. then I'd pop a couple just for the strength and stamina to kick some ass on zero sleep lol.

Except that dyspraxia is characterized by physical symptoms and autism by behavioural & social ones.. yeah, sure, they're exactly the same.

And like I was transparent about 5+ years ago: I am one like Tony Attwood described who has symptoms of ADHD, OCD, Tourettes, and Aspeger's. And also like I shared back then, dyspraxia, depression/anxiety, and chronic fatigue symptoms - ALL of which are linked by intestinal dysbiosis and treatable via healing & balancing one's gut. I know because I've done it and realized the health benefits of it for the last 5 years or so. Doctors & medical researchers are slowly catching up with all the hard science to explain it all now, finally.

It's like breathing, cube.. if you had to describe to someone how to do something as simple as breathing.. you can't - because it's not something we're taught nor know how to teach. We just do it because a part of our brain & nervous system operates those things autonomously without our knowledge or intent. If all of the sudden someone stopped breathing and the only way they could start again was if you were able to verbally communicate to them how to breathe, in detail, every movement.. every muscle contraction & relaxation, every organ involved.. everything - what do you think would happen? IMO, what would happen is you'd be confused af at how to even attempt to start explaining it and by the time you could even try to start explaining it that person would be long since dead. This is the same thing with "common sense," IMO, these things are just innately known to people when their brains and bodies are functioning properly - when their digestive tracts are balanced and functioning properly and their guts are sending the appropriate signals to the brain via the vagus nerve - and people just autonomously go with the flow of knowing the right thing to say or do.. but when they're imbalanced & the enteric nervous system isn't firing on all cylinders, well, you get oblivious clueless people saying & doing things that get glares and eye rolls from others. True story.

There are many causes of autism. Autism is a complex neurological disorder, with complex causation. It is mostly a "nature" disorder. But I wouldn't be surprised if some "nurture" aspect is discovered.

I sense there are some "cases" of autism which could have some sort of digestive component to it. Perhaps even a "type" of autism. Perhaps the research you mention will lead to there being a type which has digestive causation as a primary impetus.

But there are other cases where the autism has nothing to do with the "gut flora." And, I would purport, there is a "type" (or types) of autism which lack that connection.

You can call me names all you want for being excited to share with this community 5+ years ago that I figured out what was causing my ASD symptoms to be off the charts and how to treat it via diet and natural medicines, but it doesn't change any of it one bit. I figured it out, I did it, I shared with the group. I'm not going to apologize for any of it, ever, and especially not for being excited about something so monumentally huge as this. How was I supposed to react to it and share it? All muted like "Oh, it's no big deal guys.. I just figured out what causes Asperger's Syndrome and how to treat it and live a second life for it." Give your head a shake.

I'm not sure there is a correct term for a human being using medicine and alleviated symptoms of an ailment, besides "self medicating," - but that usually refers to someone using illicit narcotics, alcohol etc to mask the symptoms of their ailment vs. actually treating something successfully. Maybe you should make up a word for it.

I'm not a "kooky crackpot," online or in real life. I'm the very same person I've told you I am for the last 5+ years: Some autistic guy from Canada who figured out what was causing, or at the very least drastically exacerbating, his ASD symptoms & how to alleviate them via diet & natural medicines. Your calling me names for it because you don't believe what I tell you says more about you than it does about me.

And like I said earlier, Ignaz Semmelweis was "crazy," for telling doctors that their lack of hand washing was killing patients. 168 years later I'm "crazy," for telling other patients that their lack of intestinal cleansing & probiotics is causing their symptoms. Thankfully you're not in charge of ASD studies and Medical Doctors are beginning to figure these things all out now with studies like this one that I shared earlier: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5408485/ and it won't be too much longer until this knowledge is widespread and helping the people it can help.

Thanks, cube. I've been a decent boss to others the few times I've hired them to do things, and maybe someday I'll be in a position to hire more people to do more things and be a better, more permanent, boss.

I really wouldn't be surprised if "autism," ultimately, becomes "the autisms."

There's already an element of that in the idea that autism is a "spectrum."

That may be. I've never denied it. But the statistics presented in this study overwhelmingly favour the digestive correlation - as in the Vast Majority of people on the spectrum have digestive issues, not a select few. It's likely a small minority that cannot live better lives through medicine by treating the digestive component of ASD. There may be some on the spectrum who's symptoms cannot be improved via diet/probiotics etc, but if the numbers are correct, MOST ASD people can be helped via healing their guts. Clicky clicky and give it a read for yourself & you'll see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5408485/

Interesting language semantics.. but you very well could be onto something with that. If it's determined that these cases are caused by this, and those cases are caused by that, then yeah - I can totally see this being a potential future thing.

I believe, once the research is complete, that this exact thing will happen.

I was just wondering if you had been prescribed dexdrine for dyspraxia is all. Doctors will often let the patient call the shots if that means the patient will actually follow through with treatment. It's good to know doctors and medical researchers are finally catching up to you



More like descriptive language and perceptions from several people. People don't believe you, because of the way you come across here.

I think it depends on the level of autism, the psychology and the physiology of the person involved. I believe someone with very mild autism can have more pronounced symptoms due to outside factors. So it could be that gut flora doesn't actually have anything to do with autism itself, but rather affects other factors that exacerbate autistic symptoms in certain people. This is why it is important for test subjects to be thoroughly examined, to find out what all is wrong with them.

I know, when I have a stomachache, that I tend to feel and act more "autistic."

In this case, it's definitely not a "symptom" of autism. It is something which exacerbates it.

That's been discussed at length on WP. Ever since this forum started I'm sure. Better and worse autism. But I think what it really is, is that the better autism is the actual degree of autism and the worse autism is that baseline degree of autism becoming exacerbated by any number of things. So the question is, do autism treatments actually treat autism itself, or do they actually just only treat other factors that can make autism symptoms worse? My belief is that it's the latter. And furthermore the factors that exacerbate autism symptoms could vary drastically on a case by case basis.