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Huck Finn

That is a very high fever. A temperature of 40 degrees Celcius (104 degrees F) is at the very edge. When I was around 20, I suffered a high fever. My temperature rose to 105 Degrees F. My mother filled up the bathtub with cold water and then took all the ice from the refrigerator and threw it into the bath. She then place me into the ice water and my body melted the ice. But it broke the high temperature levels. I do not know if that is the best approach but it was the one that my mother used. My temperature did come done and I survived.

And the test results are indicating that you suffered from COVID. I do not know if COVID produces fevers. I did a quick check on the internet and it said, "A fever is one of the common symptoms of COVID-19"

Please get well.

jimmy m.

Hi James

I have severe covid, with complications.

I am now tapering to 2 ibuprofen and supplements and gastroprotectants and taking an antibiotic for complications. I have to take 3 of 1g at 7am 3pm 11pm until Monday.
If the treatment is successful I will not risk pneumonia.

If neglected, Covid leads to fevers of around 38 degrees Celsius.

The peak didn't scare me.

Not even the dream.

I'm recovering so maybe I found the right treatment because where I am now I don't have a doctor.

But we write to each other and our ideas coincide, and so does the therapy.

See you in a few days

Everything ok Jim!! !

Huck

Huck Finn

Hopefully you will get better soon. I suspect that every time you experienced COVID or received an appropriate vaccine, you built up some immunity. Therefore I suspect that you will be on the mends soon. You body is building up immunity.

Two days ago, I received my 6th COVID immunity shot. So far I never got COVID. Yesterday, my wife went to see her doctor. Her doctor was out for a couple days but was back. The reason why she was out was because she had COVID. So COVID is still moving about. It generally takes about 2 weeks for the COVID shot to gain full intensity. So in a sense both my wife and I are exposed, but so far no symptoms.

jimmy m.

Hi James

I'm improving.

But the feeling is identical to the first official covid in Europe in 2019/20, even if it had been circulating in Italy since September 2019.

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I used FFP2, disinfectant gel, very carefully, but I took it anyway.

As you know, I have 2 Pfizer vaccinations.

I am in favor of vaccinations.

But in my case they were very heavy.

I think the second one led me to a hemiparesis on the left side of the body.

In medicine you always need to have irrefutable evidence.


I use the doubtful because it is more correct because many can read.

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I have overcome several of Covid.

The first one almost killed me.

It took me 6 months to recover.

The others didn't give me any major problems.

This time, yes.

I recommend extreme caution, be careful of non-ventilated places, do not touch anything without gloves.

Use disinfectant gels and use valid FFP2 masks.

Be very careful, even if others don't understand, protect yourselves.

This variant that exists in Europe is strong.

At the first symptoms, stay home, write an email to your doctor, isolate yourself from your family if you have significant symptoms.

Please wait a few days for the self-assessment test.

Ask and trust doctors.

Treat yourself at home, don't wait even a single day.

This time I did it like this.

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Now I am at the end of a very heavy treatment.

Which is not the cure for everyone.

I'm just describing mine.

Ibuprofen 600mg (3/4 times a day)

Fluimucil 1 time a day

Axil 800 mg recommended as an immune defense supplement.

Stodal syrup: helps a lot with coughs, but should be used sparingly.


Now I also take the antibiotic amoxicillin 875+125 clavulanic acid 3 times a day until Wednesday.

Always keep in touch with your doctor to understand.

I had an intense fever.

Okay now.

Very high blood pressure: now it is almost normal, not right yet.

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James: You did well to get vaccinated.

In any case, do not trust the virus because it can evolve and will continue to do so.

So use maximum precautions please!

I struggle to write, read, and stay at the PC, sorry for the missed replies, sorry James.

I wrote as soon as I could and could.

Now I can swallow food.

For many days and putting them back on I continued to feed myself with baby food.

*Be careful because they must be diluted, they are poor and you will cough otherwise.

I couldn't even drink a spoonful of water.

This was mine
previous.

I am very weak, I feel lucky, and I had intuition.

This time the reaction time saved me again (I hope).

I also left myself another therapeutic option.

Otherwise it will be a hospital.

But I think I'm definitely better already.


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Don't underestimate Covid, follow what your national medical centers say, get vaccinated.

It is not true that it only affects older people.

It can hit anyone.
Maximum attention, in the USA you may have a few more weeks, use it well.

p.s:I replied to James, with my situation, the treatment is completely personal and should absolutely not be taken as an example for everyone.

Each case is different from the other.

You must follow exactly what your doctor assesses about you.

I reiterate, my posts should not be taken as an example of therapy: never.

I write it to avoid misunderstandings and also for intellectual honesty.

Thanks James.
Yesterday I was watching Sinner.

His back hurt, he didn't complain, then in the end he won anyway.

We are all so human and fragile at the same time

Huck

Hi James.

Better.

I'm almost negative: the viral load has dropped a lot.

I don't have a fever.

I'm tired and exhausted, and yesterday I had diarrhea from too many medications.

Today I reduced the antibiotic to only 3 g per day, until next Tuesday.


Sorry, in the reply I definitely wrote something that wasn't easy to translate and I checked and my post is not very readable.


In fact, you got the title of the thred right: I've been fighting against death for too long now.

Sometimes I got lucky.
I generally reacted quickly and this saved me.


I hope I got it right, it seems so.

It's hot here, we'll have at least over 13 degrees, we'll go to 18 and above.

It doesn't freeze: usually there should be frost and snow here.

Instead it's as if it were a slightly fresh spring.

Absurd.

Sorry for the missing answers.

I had to write to you about covid because it was becoming dangerous.

Even in a month's time, continue to protect yourself from the virus, and don't trust them when they minimize it.

The virus exists in Europe.

Logical there is, but it is aggressive in some relapsers and in some vaccinated people who do not respond to the vaccine.

However, it changes and varies, so the vaccine covers but cannot remedy everything.

As for the rest of this subject, perhaps you know more than I do.

Virology has never been a passion of mine.

But I know what to do.

I fear the peak in Italy will be in December: who knows, maybe it's lucky to have had the illness early (?)

It seems like an illogical thought given the situation, but it has logic, the sooner it arrives the better.

The rest my risk is pneumonia, but I did well.

Then my doctor, knowing everything and my correctness, outlined the treatment in 2 hours.

In this city it takes up to a month to talk to a doctor.

Or hours in the emergency room and I'm too weak to go.

And the doctors here are terrible compared to my region.

Even if they are nice and good people.

They have a sort of slow and always the same way of thinking.

I feel like I'm in a city 30 years behind my island.

In many areas.

Hi: I'm a little tired now.

I wrote a post and one to you.
One for you yesterday and two quick ones yesterday too.

Today I struggle less to focus on written words.

Sorry if I worried you.

If I access the forum it will mean that I'm getting better and better.

If you don't see me it will be because I won't be able to.


A hug, greetings to everyone in the family.


Huckleberry Finn

Hi James.
That temperature was exceptional for both of us.

Difference 1
I don't know your problem at that moment.

Maybe he really did the best thing.

In my case at that time I also had Covid which has disappeared since yesterday.

But I risk a recurrence of bilateral pneumonia.

If I had a tub.

in Italy they are increasingly rare, we usually have large showers, but the square meters are not optimized in cities because the costs per square meter are very high.

If I had done so I think it would have led to worse damage in my case.


2) What you write may have a logic based on the disease.

A friend of mine died of lung cancer.

They took out one of his lungs to check it and put it back in place.

He had to stay in bed.


As soon as he woke up he did one of his pranks on him.


He called us and asked us to help him go to the hospital bar.


3) He was cured of a tumor in another body site years earlier.

Do you know what he did when he was sick?

He lay naked in a tub of freezing water.

Then he got out, dried himself and started walking again.

He actually did it, I'm not joking.

3) Unfortunately he died years later from lung cancer.

There is no correlation, I'm writing this to you because he was nice, and had a rich family.

But he lived like a poor man.

I remember the first time I met him.

The road was narrow.
He arrived in his green car.

I spoke to him.

He smiled at me and told me to go and meditate on his earth.

He lay down on the ears of corn.

I told him he was getting dirty and he replied... Huck... "Never mind, see how beautiful the sky is?"

He was older than me, unfortunately he died young.

I remember his phone number by heart.

It was only 10 digits.

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The fever was not fixed at such a high temperature.

But he maintained a low-grade fever around 38° Celsius.

A fever like this is exhausting, it is low, but it indicates infection.


They told me to take antipyretics, but I know of many published studies and they slow down healing.

People sometimes recommend the wrong things.

In some cases it is also necessary to think about unconventional solutions.


*Yes: it can cause a fever, I remember that the first time they told me if I was conscious I had a fever.

After almost 10 days I agreed to be examined.

I smiled at him and told him that I had an idea because it was the twelfth time that they were measuring it electronically.
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Situation at the moment James.

a) Covid cured
b) Minimal cough
3) Mucus now normal
4)No headaches or pain
5) Breathing and recovering with difficulty from efforts.

6) I continue the final part of the treatment tomorrow I will contact the doctor via email.

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I will ask for two things: at least a chest x-ray.

Blood and urine tests.

Even if an x-ray may not show anything, a CT scan should be done, but they don't do it quickly.

I fought, now two more days.

Then we'll see what I get.

Or I will pay a pulmonologist doctor for a diagnosis.

I wish I hadn't suffered any lung damage.

Last time I lost 20% of my lung capacity.

Bear in mind that this was uncommon.

Not like the norm

Today is a day when I might even abandon the antibiotic.

Spanish studies indicate that it can be done.

We Aspergers tend to inform ourselves about what interests us.

And then not to forget it.

I'm surprised by people because they forget things even as soon as they happen, for me, they don't make their memories work and they lose them, or they don't know how to use them.

Huck
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Hi James.

I hope you're fine.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm close to the end of therapy.

I'm missing 3 tablets so a day of antibiotics.

Then we'll see, I'm just struggling to recover from the efforts and I'm very tired.

Tomorrow maybe I'll go out at least to understand what condition I'm in.


Regarding the Forum, I will write in our thread.

And I will post music sometimes.

For the rest, I don't think I'm able to communicate using a language that isn't one of my own.

And here I am systematically ignored, and without looking for excuses: I think it depends on me.


Too bad: I had tried with an English forum, but compared to this one there were a lot of interactions.

The nemesis for an autistic person... not being able to communicate even with each other.


I thought language wasn't a big barrier.

Also because in Italy we are used to interacting with many people, including Anglo-Saxons, who speak our language very badly.

Here: but we appreciate and do not exclude them.

We would need an artificial intelligence that would allow us to write in our own languages, and Italian is only my third language (it's not the first or even the second), and it's very complicated compared to English, which is more suitable for communicating with everyone in the world.

I can't do it here: so ok, patience.


I do not have a minimum acceptable level.
And I write at length.

Two things that make a very wrong mix.


See you soon, also because I haven't found you here in the thread for many days and I don't know, maybe you're not well(?)

You wrote to me about your and your wife's vaccination.

Tomorrow I'll try to go out after returning home traveling by public transport (high speed) and taxi I had to take 3 different ones on the way back.

Maybe I'll be able to see the sunlight again tomorrow.

p.s: I ask anyone not to interact here in the thread except James.
The dialogue is ours alone.



Also because I would no longer respond to others publicly.

I think I have exhausted all desire in this sense.

Forever
Thank you if you will respect my request.





Huckleberry Finn

Hi James.

My situation seems ok now.
I'm exhausted.

I thought it was a medical problem of vasculitis on the last toe of my right foot, but yesterday I purged the wound myself and disinfected it for a long time.
Twice I managed it alone.

Many antibiotics could cause problems if taken long-term.

I knew it.

Now I will wait and then write to the doctor.





Now that seems ok too.

I hope you are well James.

Huck

Hi James.

I log in for you.

Honestly, I'm worried about the situation.

Maybe you too have had a bad health experience?

I can't send messages in the email that just receives them.

As you know, it has significant problems, maybe I'll try a new one.

I wait for the moment I know someone can read for you also here in the thread.


This variant, at least in my area, is aggressive.

And in those who have already suffered heavy damage as happened to me in 2019/20.

It hits my lungs.

In the case of: oxygen, be careful with the regulation, sometimes they exceed and go to level 4.

But just level 2, otherwise it will cause permanent damage in the long run.

Pulse oximeter is essential.

If there are antibiotic indications for infections and cortisone in serious cases, ask the doctor, they are just my bad memories.


If you don't write it means you're not well or you can't.

Remember two lines are enough so I understand James.

Thank you

Huck

Hi James, I'll leave your email in the private message, I hope you're well: here I am an element that only creates discomfort and feelings of total rejection.

I no longer feel like being in this forum because:
1)I don't know how to communicate in English, I have written this several times, and I would like a member of the forum to try to communicate in Italian: he would be accepted and helped.

Because it often happens that we get people who, due to their shortcomings, do not write well in Italian Language at all, if not very poorly, but due to *Education and open-mindedness *We at least answer them (Always)



2) If you don't know how to communicate in English, you are discriminated against on Wrong Planet.

(It's called racism)

3) I write long messages like many others, but generally those who communicate very well in "English Language" receive a response, but I don't.

And it's frustrating not to have any feedback for an autistic person

4) If an autistic person does not communicate in this forum it means that there is something in this forum that needs to be corrected

5) Not communicating with the autistic part of the forum is burdensome, so I will step aside
6) I will be told that my posts are long and poorly written.

a) They are just as long as many other posts here, nothing different, and I left the days of reply, but being ignored is annoying

b) True they are poorly written, but if it can be remedied I could ask for help and write them better.

I am completely stepping aside and this will be my last login into a Racist forum for those who do not write in English.

c) This thing is so heavy in terms of ignorance that I had never tried it in any forum, and I have written in many around the world, even in real English, i.e. British

I've waited months but nothing changes, in fact it gets worse in this sense, right here I don't exist at all.

Last login and that's it.

Thanks to those of the very few who had the will not to be *racist* and at least respond.

(feeling disgusting)

H.F.(A)

Huck Finn

I was gone for a week to visit my daughter and family in Tennessee. So I couldn't respond to your messages. But I am back now. I never got COVID. It was a close call because we visited my doctor and she had COVID just a few days earlier. But since COVID is one of my areas of expertise, I did not get COVID because I had an extra layer of protection. I will write to you tomorrow.

jimmy m.

i James.

I'm glad you're well, I was a little worried.

I won't write here on the site anymore.

I'm sorry but it's racist towards people whose native language is English.

Every nation has its own English.

This is what happens in the USA, Australia and various others.

But here you understand, there is no open-mindedness towards those who do not speak English, even if it is not as precise as the native UK language.

I find it disheartening.
My posts are ignored.

Ok they're long: but many posts are long.

Ok: I am ignorant in this language, which differs from the traditional one.

And here I found even greater obstacles *Humans (I would say very little human) towards me, they ignore me.

It's not good, it's not the site's fault, but this situation needs to be corrected.

Towards others: we are autistic and being transparent to others is not good at all.

It's not just up to me... I take my own blame.

In Italy we accept those who try to speak our language badly, and we respond to them, we never isolate them.

It doesn't work like that here.

I'm very sorry, but I can't do it here and it's not just my fault, maybe 50%, but 100% illogical.

I feel sorry for at least 5 other users who have been very kind to me.

I thank the site administrator: he has always been kind. Thank you .

Sorry, I don't want to focus on myself, but on the problem in general and that's not good at all, I mean that.

I waited weeks for the answers: zero except for some special users who I thank.

Huckleberry Finn

Huck Finn

I am sorry that you have decided to leave the site. My ability to communicate has been greatly limited by my stroke. It did a lot of damage. Most people who experienced this never recovered. So lost their ability to even speak. I was astonished by your ability to communicate in English even though you did not know the language. That was an amazing feat.

You experienced COVID when it was the deadliest. The time before 2020 and you survived. That is amazing.

I began discussing the COVID pandemic on 22 January 2020. It took me awhile to figure out how to survive the pandemic. It was towards the end of March 2020 when I figured out the approach. That was around page 200 in the thread. And that approach worked to protect me and my family. It was a very effective approach that included (1) wearing an N95 Mask when indoors outside my home. These masks were reusable if you cleaned them using UVC light between uses. It also included (2) providing protection within ones home by maintaining the indoor air humidity between 40 and 60 percent. This was an easy step to do. For me the danger was in the winter. I kept moisture in the air when I heated my home. In your case, your humidity levels are too high during some times of the year. That is why you got COVID a few months ago. The final step (3) was to kill the virus within your home. Otherwise it would stay there for hours and days. This is done by very specialized filters that kept the air clean inside the home. These were available and fairly inexpensive. They are now producing another kind called HEPA filter that also seem efficient.

So these were the three tools that I used to keep me and my family safe when COVID struck. It is all documented on Wrong Planet. But you needed to get to around page 200 (the end of March 2020) to learn this approach. This was the first step that we used and it worked well until the vaccines were developed and available. Many of the vaccines were ineffective. Some were no better than garbage. But two (Pfizer and Moderna) were exceptional. They worked. But because it took so long to test and approve and administer the drugs, they were somewhat inefficient because the virus was on the move. It was constantly changing. Every few months another variant would appear and take over. As a result even though one would get the vaccine, it was not one hundred percent effective.

So in my case, even though I was exposed to COVID because my primary doctor had it days before my visit, I was still immune because my home environment cleans the air very efficiently. So using two levels of protection was efficient and effective.

I am sorry that you have decided to unplug yourself from Wrong Planet. I thought you were a very unique individual and your presence was very valuable. I created a special link within Wrong Planet which was almost invisible and allowed us to communicate together almost invisibly. Even tough you do not speak English, you were effective in communicating in that language. ASTONISHING.

jimmy m.

Honestly, the fantastic person is you James.
I've read a lot about you both here and in private.

You know, I can never write who has more inconveniences between me and others.

Because sometimes it's impossible.


My level of autism is high.
My mother and many family members are autistic.

Unfortunately, the only 2 low-functioning children are very young.

On the plus side, my region has a very high level of healthcare in this sector.

Up to the age of 18 they are looked after very very well.


Then everything becomes so rarefied.

James being autistic, I didn't believe it until an autistic friend of mine and an autistic friend in a forum of 30,000 non-autistic people pointed it out to me.


But then I didn't even have the first diagnosis.

And they were so emblematic I thought they were worse off.

One of the two looked like me.

They compared us and I didn't know why.


I didn't understand why, or what I was, I didn't know how to explain to my father why I had it.

His question was focused on that.

Imagine you have a child you consider special.

It's good at almost everything it does.

Honors at school, I was always involuntarily first.

And not function socially.

In the meantime, take care of everything I could do.

I wasted so much of my time doing useless things for me.

But useful for my family who was poor.

I went to school with holes in my shoes.

But at school there were my classmates who were even poorer.

I was very proficient in mathematics and several other subjects.

I won races.

The prizes were teaching, so books, notebooks, pens, school clothes, everything.

My teachers would tell me if I wanted to help them.

And I left almost everything to them.

I knew they were right.

In those first years of life I understood 2 important things:

1) There is always someone in worse conditions than me.

2) There can always be someone who sooner or later will do better than you, in any sector

This was a problem, because I'm not very competitive, for me everything has only one function James: it's for other people.

Otherwise the existence of a human being would make no sense.


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You James, you had a very rare life.

You really should be studied scientifically.

In theory you started from several traumas, two important ones.

One between and 4 years of age with an accident with a bull.

You were between life and death.

Something made you choose life and walk back towards the light.

Then what you did and all alone has no equal.

I have read hundreds of thousands of biographies and yours is unlike any.

On your own you have to make choices that are always right.

I don't even know if I can list them, but I remember them all.

You created your family by going to Poland to find the most important person in your existence there.

You have transformed every apparent flaw into an advantage.

Being color blind and serving your country in the National Guard and becoming the best marksman is also special.
Then your school career, your knowledge and degrees...

All alone: ​​without help, without knowing what I was.

Then the understanding of the fact that I was Asperger's (Intj, certainly twice exceptional, therefore mentally gifted), with unique abilities.

HERE I was surprised by your stroke.

You always write so well.

Instead you had a huge problem.

Which caused a chain of others.

You have always found unique ways of reacting.

You impressed me from your first posts here.

Then I realized I was even better.

You analyze everything: I tend to do this too as an INTJ.

You focus your speed reading on the crucial parts of a piece of writing.

You are reactive and cold in moments where your life can be risked.

I was worried when I didn't see you post anymore.

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As for how Italians see the USA, I can't describe it.

You are the nation we appreciate most of all.

It doesn't matter if you, like everyone else, have flaws: it's impossible not to have flaws.

But the advantages are immense.

I was explaining to a person here that we don't feel European at all.

I have been reading your story since I was little (4 years old).

You know James, many stories for teenagers and children are full of historical information and dates.

For me your Independence must be put before the French Revolution.

But not just because it happened 13 years earlier, but it was extraordinary.

Then in an ever greater crescendo over the course of these centuries.

Now you have a very bad opponent in China.

I don't agree with what Bill Gates is now saying about this ferocious dictatorship.

In fact, I don't understand dictatorships in 2023.

And the way is that most nations are dictatorial.

You are a Democracy.

Democracy.

Regarding the prevalent American language which is your English, the translation should be related to your language which is slightly different from the UK one.

In a UK forum also for Autistics, Birmingham if I'm not mistaken, I found myself with less difficulty in communicating.

Here on WP for a certain number of months I felt at ease.

Then in the second inscription I found like a rubber wall.

I can't break it.

I don't communicate with others, except a few.

Most outright avoid communicating.

I recognize my communication deficits.

But I place the remaining 50% in the unwillingness to communicate with a non-English speaker.

This aspect should be carefully evaluated.

It doesn't matter that it's me, but that the fact exists.

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This will happen to others too.

The Forum is the twin of an Italian one, born from a rib of this one.

The initial level was very high.

Then it became something else, and heterogeneous.

He distorted it.


Here the presence of Neurotypicals and other individuals does not do the forum any good.

Not even autistic people.


The opposite is thought, a researcher and science communicator friend of mine also thought so, perhaps he still thinks so.


But there is a lack of communication between the ND and the NT.

ND includes so much beyond autism itself.

Therefore the percentage increases at least ten times compared to us Aspergers.

The syndromes are extensive and some are linked to each other.
*There is not and perhaps never will be clarity on this matter.

I see so much simplification nosographically.

Nothing is simple.

Everything is complex both in life and in diagnostics.

But it simplifies it.

Ok: at least we're talking about it.

In other countries, but also in Italy, I wrote posts that were not for me.

But they remained indexed and perhaps of valid help for beings like us, or slightly more complicated than we think.


So: Italian wouldn't be my first language either.

But scholastically it is.

My people are discriminated against because they are not recognized as being in tune with the Italian ones.

Even though we liberated Italy from both the Austrians and the French, then defended it several times, always on the front line.

I understand several languages, but I have no ability to write them.

My mind is flexible.

It will be until the last moment before death.

I've been competing with death for as long as I can remember.

So far I've won.

But it's a losing game.

Regarding Covid, I underestimated 2019 for over 9 days.

I thought it would disappear over time but it got worse.

The place where I got it was the epicenter of Italian Covid.

But perhaps we deserved it, given that together with the French and the USA we were foolish enough to believe in China from 2002 onwards.

The joint research was published in 2008.

Then we moved away from their laboratories including Wuhan.

But in Italy it was Covid and a chimera already in 2015.

Specials were aired on TV exactly about this Covid.

Regarding vaccines, yes, fortunately they now exist and are more targeted.

We first put too much burden on Pfizer and other industries.

Because we really didn't know how to get out of it.

We made sure their searches were very short.

So the initial fault was ours.

Therefore we have vaccinated the variants of the virus.

But it was essential to block them.

Now we are doing much better.

This Covid has been really hard for me.

I didn't expect such a harsh response from my body.

I still struggle to do things, but I have walked many kilometers in recent days and the pulmonary response is excellent.

Even though with Covid 2019 I lost 20% of my abilities.


I invite anyone who reads to protect themselves, be careful and take care of themselves immediately.

Even with complications you will see that the majority of patients will be able to recover.

You have to be very consistent.

I barely fed myself for weeks.

I couldn't even drink water.

Not to eat.

Now I feel so lucky.


I did the right things, but I was so lucky that I feel like I'm living again, little by little.


Then I will put this battle behind me.


About you James, I've been thinking about your situation and proposing ideas.

Except they were just ideas and not the solution.

I am sorry.

Because maybe there is a solution, we just can't figure it out.

The feeling is that the solution exists.
You know, when intuition perceives that something can be done, or in any case greatly reduce deficits?

Well, I have that feeling with you.

I feel so stupid for not being able to get any clues about what to propose to you.


And in any case you, James are really fighting against a state of affairs that is really strong.


I remember the video on treatments for people after stroke, I think by a doctor from South Florida.

And I remember your descriptions of Jill Bolte Taylor's experiences.

Huck Finn

Huck Finn

You wrote: "My level of autism is high.
My mother and many family members are autistic."

I think it might run deep in my family also. There was a member on this site that was extremely smart like us. He and his wife had two children. One was like me a word thinker and the other was like you a picture thinker. It is unfortunate that he has left the site a few years ago. He wrote and published a book. I read the book and it was phenomenal. On this site he went by the name eikonabridge. His real name was Jason H. J. Lu. His book was called, "EIKONA BRIDGE: LIVE Communication with the Autistic Species". He wrote: "Eikona means “image” in Greek. Eikona Bridge takes you on a journey to a world that you have never been to before: the inner world of people with autism."

Here is a link to his site: EIKONA BRIDGE

At the end of the introduction to his book he wrote that the normal approach to dealing with Autistic people is "Children with autism are sick; they must be treated to become normal."
But rather the proper approach is "Children with autism are special gifts to the world; they should never be forced to become normal."

I agree. But unfortunately our world is one of chaos and it rules over the human species.

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You wrote, "This was a problem, because I'm not very competitive, for me everything has only one function James: it's for other people.
Otherwise the existence of a human being would make no sense."

You may be right but for me, I never even knew I was different. Most people have +s and -s (pluses and minuses) We are good at some things and poor in other areas. But Aspies are different. We have ++s and --s. Or +++s and ---s. And some of us are truly phenomenal. We have +++++s and -----s.

For example, one of my weaknesses is that I have a severe form of color blindness. My brain sees only 2 of the 3 colors in the spectrum and my mind invents the third color. So my vision is different. When I was about to be drafted into the army to fight a war, they detected this problem. I thought that this defect might allow me to not be drafted. But they said NO, We Definitely Want You. Because you cannot be fooled. You can see right through any clothing modifications that can hide a target. You definitely can become a Sniper.

Why am I different? It is because I died around age 3 or 4 when I was attacked by a bull. I died. But humans are a very advanced creation. We have multiple brains. My left side of my brain, my dominant side, my day time brain died. But my right side, my support brain, my night time brain survived the attack. So I recovered but as a totally different person. I never grew up. I am still a child deep down inside. But a very smart child, a very, very smart child.

I became Peter Pan. Eventually my left side recovered and filled the void and became my night time brain.

Now even though I was set up to be drafted into the Army, I applied for serving my country in the National Guard. Somehow I scored the highest score anyone ever received and they took me in to the National Guard. So I never became a sniper. Instead they gave me a task greater then Top Secret and that is how I survived the Vietnam War.

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You wrote, "HERE I was surprised by your stroke.
You always write so well."

Actually I do not write well. I lost so many of my words. These were generally simple words, like Cat and Dog. But I also lost my knowledge of Names. The Names of People, Places, Stores. They were all destroyed during the stroke. But luckily I did not lose my ability to learn and my mind keeps learning new information to fill the void.

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Then your communications shifted to a discussion about Wrong Planet. Many people on the site have various versions of autism. Some are not even autistic but slide into the site to create chaos. There are many broken autistic people on the site. Some have used drugs to try and compensate for their autistic differences. Our minds are different but they are not broken. They are just different.

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Because the stroke caused significant damage to my brain, it has been difficult to recover. There were two major abilities that I lost after the stroke. The first was the ability to drive a car. But I took a very interesting course and proved to the medical community that I could drive. I did this around a years after the stroke. The second thing was cutting fire wood. My brain was so damaged that I could not even figure out how to use my chainsaw. I could not even start it. So a few weeks ago I purchased a battery powered electric chainsaw. This was bigger then a toy. It would cut trees that were 1 foot across. I began cutting some of the downed trees around the house. So I was able to make logs. Then I went into the barn and pulled out my log splitter. This device takes logs and splits them into firewood. It is a big device but I was able to get it running again and began to split the firewood. So I was able to create around 2 years of firewood for the winter. This was a major accomplishment. At this point I now have enough firewood to last for about 10 years.

So I am happy. Even though I suffered one of the most severe strokes, the kind that most people do not recover from, I have moved forward.

jimmy m.

Hi dear James, I read, I remembered about Eikona Bridge.

I will treasure it.
He was right.

I take a drug to limit my sensory which is elevated.

But I took the car license as an example, immediately driving with a manual gearbox.

Just looking at my instructor's feet and listening to him.

I did exactly as he said.

I drove perfectly for 25 out of 30 minutes.

He thought I was teasing him, that I had already driven.

But I had never driven before.

The problem occurred at the first large roundabout.

I didn't understand the intentions of others.

I told him I didn't know how to drive anymore.

He was amazed and took the controls of the car.

It's called theory of mind.

I took another 25 lessons, I'm not joking, until I was able to drive perfectly in roundabouts which were very complicated also due to the lack of road education of my compatriots, who don't follow the rules.

Now I understand things in advance.

Before them.

However, I had never shown up for the lessons for the driving license exam.

I studied on my own.

Try I could have made 4 mistakes.

I did 2 of them.

Admitted to the exam, he was happy.

I do not.

I studied all the questions and the correct answers.

I didn't make any mistakes on the exam.

True, Asperger's is very particular.

It has enormous peculiarities and enormous defects.

The two things go hand in hand.

I also have ADHD.
So everything flows very quickly in me.

Sorry, I only partially responded to the post, I read it first, but I have to reply to everything again.

Vietnam: wow.

I know that war, it's very famous in our country.

I saw many things in war footage.

Impressive.

You explained the theory of the 4 brains here but I think few people have understood it...I'm starting from a summary of a discussion in Italy last February.

"Neuroscience helps us to better understand how we function (well or - sometimes - badly) and can become precious allies of Managers and Professionals. Being aware of the mechanisms of our mind is an essential step to activate our self-leadership and our empowerment, without which it is difficult to be leaders and good examples.

This module is part of a journey of 2 events, which can also be used individually:
February 28 "We have 4 brains to manage our days and we can use them all"
March 30 "If you know yourself, you live and work better"

We have 4 brains to manage our days and we can use them all

A meeting inspired by the thoughts of Jill Bolte Taylor and dedicated to those who have already taken courses to develop their relational and time management skills and wonder why, at times, they struggle to apply the tools and techniques acquired.

One possible answer is: because we don't use our brain enough.

How to fix it?

By becoming aware that we have four brains (not one or two, as is usually believed), and by giving voice to all four we will develop our ability to take life lightly, because lightness is not superficiality, but gliding over things from the tall, without boulders on the heart, as Italo Calvino says

Contents

Summary of the teachings and experience of Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist held in check by a stroke.

Our 4 brains: what they think and feel and which functions they oversee

a brain to enlighten us (problem solving & solution finding)
one to organize ourselves (time management & execution)
one to connect (collaboration, team working, constructive negotiation)
one to protect us (risk management, decision making)
Knowing our 4 brains, giving them a name, communicating with each of them and making them interact to best express our potential.

Recognize the part of the brain at work in our interlocutors and tune in to that to increase empathy."

There are types of empathy.
1) Instinctual (it would be worth writing about it, because human beings were not naturally empathetic in prehistory)

2) Rational empathy.
I have that one if I understand.

Stroke, write to me about the key keywords used in neurological diagnosis.

Don't be afraid James: it's normal that you made those mistakes.

See you soon sorry for incomplete response.

*The 4 brain theory is fascinating.

And I consider it valid.

See you soon

Huckleberry Finn