Asperger's and Marijuana

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Hello, first time poster here. While I have all the symptoms to be considered an aspie, I don't really identify myself as one. I was wondering how many of you use marijuana to help with problems like sleeping, relaxing, etc. I'm a habitual marijuana smoker and I can truly say that it's helped me get through some tough times.

A little bit about me. I was diagnosed with depression, social anxiety disorder, and ADD all in the same sitting with a psychologist. These diagnosis' didn't surprise me; I had known I was depressed since I was a little kid, and I had never been a socially active child, often staying to myself or maintaining one really good friend and ignoring other children. In middle-school I had very little friends, and in high-school I had about 3 friends the entire year, including my fraternal twin brother (who has no aspie symptoms at all). I started smoking marijuana when I was 19 and I found that it made me a little more social, less depressed, and my social anxiety was getting better. I had also found the cure to my insomnia.

When I'm high, it just feels like everything is alright. My worries float away and seem like little things compared to how I viewed them while sober. Most of the time I become more introverted while smoking, often just sitting down and thinking about my day, or about my "problems", finding simple solutions and telling myself not to forget them. I've also found that I have a bigger arsenal when it comes to conversation with peers. It surprises me how many people I've met, how many connections I've made, just through the use of this herb.

TLDR: How many of you are potheads?

Well my friend, im familiar with the weed, since my brother was a smoker i tried sometimes, it really lets you relax and all, but you've got to know when to smoke, just once a month is fine for me, and i just cant smoke anywhere but my house, otherwise i get paranoid, i get headaches... its horrid...

I used to smoke weed for like 3 years straight, was the best time of my life, now I get tested so I cant, been clean for 5 years, worst 5 years of my life so far.

It makes me happy, thats all I know, content with life, makes me have humor, more social, too much tho you can get paranoid, or a bad high your heart rate races, its a nightmare then.

I love weed.

I've only smoked once and couldn't get high.

I've also tried vicodin, and after taking dosages as high as 1.5 grams, I did not feel any different.

The quality of the herb definitely matters... probably more so for people with aspergers since you can have chemical sensitivities. I heard that some people spray it with windex so it holds extra weight. I don't smoke out of metal pipes anymore (usually joints) & I only buy from people I'm familiar with.

I find some weed makes me think too much, too quickly and I'm not able to refine and simplify my statements. Some weed helps me just slow right down and meditate. Some of the best meditation experiences I've had were after smoking cannabis.

Weed holds a special place in my heart, I know many business man smoke weed. It's such simple of a drug that can have huge creative benefits once your used to it's affects. Also I predict that it's got some anti-radiation affect which is why they used it at the Chernobyl Incident.

I find I am more receptive to quality when I'm stoned as well, and eat more nutritiously. Also I last way longer fapping, so I'm sure it makes sex better (even though I don't masterbate anymore! ).

I also believe it was mentioned several times in the bible, it's great to read from the bible stoned.

I don't know how I got here,but now I'm paranoid about drugs.
Even with my life in turmoil, I have never taken it.

at times; yes.
i do join in the sharing if one is going on, usually, and it makes me relax; it stops all the sideways thinking processes and allows me to just simply sit still and noth think about anything; i love that effect

I've never had THC and I have no desire to. I saw my friends become idiots thanks to it and I'd rather not follow in their footsteps.

I like it - my avatar does say Love, Peace and Poetry after all - but only when I'm at home. In social situations I prefer alcohol, because it brings me out of myself, whereas cannabis is better for chilling out and relaxing in solitude.

If you're going to take cannabis, don't smoke it. Chew it.

For starters, smoking it will damage your respiratory system in some of the same ways as smoking tobacco, but will do it to a much greater extent as cannabis burns hotter than tobacco. I don't think a splint has the same tar content as your typical cigerette, but you'll still do yourself a lot of unnecessary damage.

I was told by a teacher of mine who is also a drugs consellor that whilst smoking cannabis will get you the results faster, chewing it will make the effects last longer, as well as being better for you.

I don't use it for religious reasons. I'm often tempted though. I referee during the football season, and several of my collegues referee stoned. It's a very stressful job for someone my age, so I think it probably helps them, but a) there's the religious problems and b) they smoke it.

I used to smoke a variety of weed everyday and all day for a couple years.
I had a medical license to buy it from a store.
That was about a year ago, and then I had to quit when I started becoming incredibly paranoid and delusional.

I thought my neighbors were watching me with tiny hidden cameras, and I thought I was sure of it, because I could hear them talking about me in the distance (auditory illusions)
I still have this problem, and it literally still sounds as if they are watching me, but they are likely just talking about something else, because it is impossible that two different entire neighborhoods could be watching me 24/7. Also, I get responses from them about my thoughts, and have had delusions that they can hear all of my thoughts, as well as my embarrassing intrusive thoughts via OCD anxiety (much like Tourette's of the thoughts). Usually these responses are vague, and misunderstood. All I hear is laughter, as if they are laughing at me, and name calling in a very negative way.

Also, as I smoked weed, I developed a perception that dogs all around the neighborhood can hear my thoughts, and are talking to me using Morse code.
One bark for agreement, two barks for disagreement, three barks for laughter, confusion, or excess, four barks for trouble or difficulty, five barks for communication or sex, six barks for inferiority, and seven barks for illusion.

I still suffer from these problems as a result of my excessive pot smoking, and I have not even touched pot for a whole year now...
And, you know what? I still kinda miss smoking pot, lol!
If only I didn't overdo it though...

Marijuana seems to be the only thing that really helps my depression and anxiety issues, the only trouble is the legal status and they are trying to make it very difficult to get medical marijuana so I don't even know if I should bother spending the money to try and get the card not to mention I can't even use depression and anxiety I would have to go with something more physical like chronic pain which I have because of depression but yeah if I say it's because depression I do not think it would be allowed.

Well sir, I didn't read your back story because I have better things to do.I smoke weed.My therapist is obsessed with trying to get me to quit.I am coming off being stoned for a long time.I tried to get the highest I could get possible.I wasted a lot on this little pursuit.Pot really helps me out.Let me tell you a story:

I got very upset because something my therapist said.I felt disgraced and I felt like such a nuisance.I than freaked out.I was so afraid to leave my own room.I kept thinking about so many things.When I had this great sadness, which is the worse feeling in the world, I thought to myself "well, if you are suffering forever, you obviously now have perminance.No one really has that!"This made me feel better.I was still miserable.I posted online asking for advice about medicine or marijuana.One man answered me and emailed me.He told what mindfulness was.I got high and I just contemplated all my suffering.I now practice mindfulness all the time and all day I try to be positive

That story is a key part in my life.Weed helps me sleep.Sometimes, if I'm way too high, it keeps me up.My cousin(best friend) had a friend who said this like second grader goody 2 shoes kid asked "why do you you do drug."He kept thinking about and he said he always feels bored with life and pot makes him be happy with that boredom.That reminded my cousin of me and he is correct in thinking I am like that.Any questions class?