Does Marijuana help autism? does it help you connect w/ppl?

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Pot used to be the only reason that I tried to talk to anyone at all. Not good. I've had my ups and downs with it; bottom line for me- sometimes it's cool, but I've used it too heavily as a social bait in the past. My worst space out episodes happened around pot, but lasted months after any use at all.

It has the opposite effect for me. I withdraw into myself more and find it more difficult to make conversation.

But everyone is different, do whatever works for you.

It helps me a WHOLE lot. I'm far more personable and laid-back.

Unless these people who are against pot are speaking from personal experience, I can't really take them seriously.

yeah, I am

I've been around people who were stoned while I was sober. To me they seemed as if they were going from NT to Aspie. So I can follow how it would make Aspies more at ease since they are presumably around other stoned people.

Being high seems to bring out a lot of the embarrassing Aspie traits that I normally have a grip on while sober. On a bad day, I lose track of conversations and in extreme cases find it hard to decipher syllables, and if I speak I'm just about able to croak a simple sentence. The fact that the two friends I normally smoke with are very negative people at the best of times means that I have to focus on creating a positive vibe internally and my social functioning is severely impaired.

However, I've lost count of how many priceless insights have come to me after blazing. For me it's second only to reading literature in the way it has challenged my perceptions and deepened my thought processes. Also, it's effects on relieving anxiety are unmatched, even compared to sex and strenuous exercise. Towards the end of a week, I become more and more preoccupied with the trivialities of every day life and more acutely aware of my social awkwardness, and the overall effect is that I lose focus on the work I need to do. Smoking weed helps to put everything into context and I feel at peace with myself, so that for the rest of the week I am functioning optimally, both socially and academically.

I enjoy drinking as well, but I feel it's a mindless rush and no more fun than just being in a hyperactive mood. As I get older I'm also suffering more from hangovers and aware of the overall detriment to health.

In conclusion, weed is the healing of the nation.

Ok it helps you, but its not the healing of the nation.

It is not for everyone, but I think it is most likely better than pharmaceuticals for the certain people that it really helps.
There is such a thing as medical marijuana for a reason.

My mom is on paxil and she can't get off of it for the life of her. she's tried 3 times and had a nervous breakdown, almost had to stay home from work. She also has to take a bunch of other drugs and supplememnts to deal iwth the effects of paxil. If I want to stop smoking weed, I stop buying it, that simple. There are times when weed was the only thing that prevented me from doing something stupid, like die/get killed or ironically, go to jail.

Yeah, I think certain meds work for different people.

If your feeling like that, then there's no way weed can be the long term answer. Just look around for alternatives.

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