goldfish21
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21 Nov 2018, 1:17 am
If you hate your symptoms so badly, why don't you treat them?
*shrug* I'll never understand why people here complain, complain, complain that they can't stand abc and xyz symptom and how they affect their life, yet they're unwilling to consider treating them and seeing if they feel better.
To each their own, I suppose.
I made my choice over 5 years ago & have less than zero regrets about it. Life is night and day better in every way.
Autism is not treatable. All experts in neurology agree on this.
BS. I've been treating it for over 5 years & am Very high functioning to the point that only One person I've met in the last 5 years recognized me as autistic - and that's only because he has an autistic brother and my symptoms were acting up at the time.
Besides what I do to treat my symptoms (medicine, not talk therapy or learning to mimic someone's behaviours) that enables me to live a much fuller, more normal, life, there are other treatments for Autism that are much more common that have measurable proven results. ABA is probably the most common and well known.
Not everyone is as high functioning as you are. And many who are do not have access to proper medication because we are undiagnosed. Many do not have the fortune of living in an area with access to specialists qualified to diagnose adults, can afford the costs of visiting said specialists, or both.
So what?
I treat my symptoms via diet, supplements, probiotics, and intestinal cleanses. The gut dysbiosis part of ASD is entirely treatable. According to medical stats on chemical sensitivities of ASD people, this should apply to 70% of people on the spectrum. When I started doing this for myself I was living in my friend's construction site (sort of), trading what labour I could manage for a roof over my head and food to eat, & had an income of a whopping $150cdn/month.
Prior to figuring things out, my symptoms were unimaginably bad and completely life hindering. My doctor said there was nothing he could do because there are no drugs for this. But I Knew I wasn't always that bad and that if something could make it worse, something could make it better. I just had to figure out what it was and what to do. So, meeting the right people at the right time in my life and 10,000+ pages of reading later, I figured it out and have been treating my symptoms ever since.
And now there're ASD medical studies published since that point to Exactly what I said was true about ASD over 5 years ago when I shared here on WP how I'd been treating my symptoms with miraculous results. In time more people will accept all of this as medical fact and more will opt to treat their symptoms. In the meantime, the vast majority of forum members are just here to complain and vent vs. try to improve themselves and their lives.
You said you met the right people at the right time. That was completely depeandant on luck and is unlikely to replicate for most people.
I met an Herbalist who's father is a Naturopathic Doctor. I learned a few key things from them in conversation, and also learned to open my mind about medicine - about natural medicines, plants, healing foods etc. Combine all that with my own reading and determination and I figured things out and then did things for myself.
I also didn't keep it to myself. I posted everything I do to treat my symptoms here on WP for anyone to read, learn from, and try for themselves. They don't have to have a chance meeting of an Herbalist, and then his Naturopathic Doctor father. I already did that, learned things, applied them, realized the results for myself And shared exactly what I learned and did. No replication of meeting people required. All one would have to do to replicate my results is to try what I have done for myself and see if it works for them.
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.
21 Nov 2018, 1:18 am
Try exercising, it keeps you healthy physically and mentally. I suffer from depression which right now I would say is about 6/10 on a bad scale. A year ago it was 10/10 and I was an utter mess, I've been keeping fitter ever since and slowly I'm becoming more like my old self.
A run a day keeps depression away
auntblabby
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21 Nov 2018, 1:29 am
I ran just about every day for decades until my joints gave out. 
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21 Nov 2018, 1:40 am
goldfish21
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21 Nov 2018, 1:52 am
Hmm, some good points.. but I don't think involuntarily celibate men are necessarily on the receiving end of much bigotry for being involuntarily celibate, so I don't think that's what they're complaining about. I think they're on the receiving end of bigotry for all the things about them that make them involuntarily celibate. For those reasons, I feel for some of them for sure.
The ones I don't feel sad AT ALL for in this forum are the ones who go on endlessly about wanting a girlfriend, get given tonnes of fantastic advice from people all over the world on what they can do to better their chances, make themselves more attractive etc and so forth, and then choose to change exactly NOTHING about themselves and then get upset that they don't have a different result. (of having a girlfriend.) Those particular people need to accept that they don't DESERVE a girlfriend because they're not willing to do ANY work (on themselves) in order to "earn," (attract) one so to speak/for lack of a better word. Acknowledging that you don't have many attractive qualities is one thing, realizing what things women find attractive is another.. but there has to be a connection made between the two and decisive action taken to make oneself more attractive for anything to change in real life. Not willing to put in any effort to attract a girlfriend? Well then, I hope you truly do enjoy your solitude because you're going to have LOOOOOOTS of it.
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.21 Nov 2018, 1:54 am
That's a long term side effect, but otherwise you can't go wrong
21 Nov 2018, 1:57 am
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21 Nov 2018, 2:06 am
What are we discussing here? 
21 Nov 2018, 2:10 am
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21 Nov 2018, 2:59 am
That's a long term side effect, but otherwise you can't go wrong
You don't have to run to keep fit. Walking & dancing works just as well, mostly without wearing your joints down as running do.
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auntblabby
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21 Nov 2018, 3:25 am
That's a long term side effect, but otherwise you can't go wrong
yeh, combined with swimming a mile's worth of laps most days, I useta be pretty fit.
21 Nov 2018, 3:45 am
That's a long term side effect, but otherwise you can't go wrong
You don't have to run to keep fit. Walking & dancing works just as well, mostly without wearing your joints down as running do.
There are lots of good ways to stay fit without running. Walking and dancing do work well, but there's also:
1. Drinking water, cut out fizzy fatty drinks. Fizzy drinks can also lead to you feeling low and depressed after drinking them.
2. Cut out junk food.
3. Get enough sleep. Don't stay up watching things in bed.
And most importantly be as positive as you can be. Negativity and low willpower only makes things worse for you and your health. I still have depression but actually feel a lot happier and more relaxed since I started keeping fitter
