Aspies For Freedom

A cognitive enhancer? Heck, that would do good for anyone, not just NTs.

Of course the whole problem of putting stress on the kidneys isn't exactly a Good Thing.

Not that I am going to run out and get this immediately, since I am already on medication and would have to research possible interactions first, but I would like to find some way to make better use of my mind.  I test well, I talk well, but that is about all.  I am a terribly undisciplined reader, have "skipped around" ever since grade school instead of reading thoroughly as one must in order to be any kind of scholar.  A friend of mine, fondly recalling the ditzy long-haired cats she has known, jokes that they are dumb because all their brain cells are used to grow hair. I keep wondering what mine are being used for.  I would love to have enough mental focus to excel in something...  

couldbecousin--Have you considered ADHD? If you're "unfocused" that could be the problem. There are a lot of books out there that teach you how to train your mind to overcome attention-deficits; and of course there are also drugs to assist (though I really think they ought only to be taken if it would be much harder to learn those anti-distraction skills if you didn't take them). After all, ADHD shares so much with mild AS... I really think it's an offshoot from the Spectrum... So it's pretty common for those sorts of things to occur along with AS.

Yeah, and lots of times I wish I could carry a portable cone of silence. No doubt plenty of other people would think much the same.

And why do people think it is so easy to "overcome" these attention deficits? It's not just a matter of popping a few pills and reading a few self-help books.

You can often hear a humming noise from high tension lines can you not? not hearing electricity per se, but you can still here the effects.

Its ozone you smell, triatomic oxygen, toxic in all but tiny doses but easily sniffed out if its about, formed by electrical discharges through oxygen containing gases.

I love that smell/sense in the air after a good storm, it feels like it washes all the shite out of the atmosphere, I rather like breathing clean air, its amazing how different it is when you are used to inner city filth (no I'm not talking about curebies here), and how much one gets de-sensitised to breathing in such garbage.

If I could smell ozone seeping through the walls, I would be giving it legs in the opposite direction, bad wiring? thats worse wiring than the time I tried setting up an electrolytic cell using AC power, one of my mothers vases and a modified plug with a slug of lead for a fuse

I meant from the point of view of a storm.

I've been wanting to give piracetam (or another nootropic) a try lately, to see if it can help me understand statistics or other complex math-type subjects. I am worried, however, that it might aggrevate my anxiety by making my brain exceedingly alert and active.

I don't think its as anxiogenic as stimulants, I hate all stimulants, except maybe cocaine, they make me feel jittery and ratty as hell, but piracetam doesn't actually directly agonise any form of receptor, rather, it increases the efficiency of choline uptake by many processes, choline and acetylcholine are neurotransmitters involved with muscle movement (as nicotinic subtype receptors, NAChRs) and muscarinic receptors that are involved in regulating glandular secretions, heart rate and cognition amongst other things, which is the reason choline supplements are needed, to fuel the increased uptake.

I really want to try this stuff, it seems to have an excellent safety and side effect profile, along with one of the ampakines, which I find more tempting still, glutamatergic positive modulators, supposed to improve memory retention and formation along with learning ability, apparently CB1 agonists, like THC have knock on glutamatergic antagonist downstream signal cascades, which is responsible for effects on memory.

I'm not willing to give up my 'erb, no way, sounds like just the thing, as I am always in the mood to learn new things about my interests while I'm blazed up, I want to try one of the ampakines, to improve memory retention and to counteract the morning-after slowness after a sesh.

Gee, I wouldn't want to have any more sensory overload than I already have. In fact, I despair of ever being free from sensory overloads.

I don't want to be cured of autism as such but if there was something that would cure these sensory overloads, I'd be very tempted. They are the bane of my existence.

Lestat, why do people in the US call herbs 'erbs? It has never made sense to me. Do they do it just to be different, or what?

Lol Pakrat, I don't know as they do, my missus calls it 'weed'

Over here (I'm from the UK) we call it skunk, bud, ganj, etc.

'erb is just a jocular reference to it, just picture a rasta accent saying 'smokin' de 'erb mon'

Hehehe *passes Pakrat the bong*

Wondering1 can take whatever he wants if he so chooses. The vast majority of "gifted" people do have weaknesses in some areas, and if he wants to work on those weaknesses (and see if a nootropic will help with that), then good for him.

Then buy some.

Lestat, thanks for the explanation. I just noticed on US cooking shows, they always refer to 'erbs and I thought it rather curious. Actually, it would be interesting to know what some dishes would be like with the kind of 'erbs you described. I've heard of hashish cookies

Space cakes yum yum!, There isn't much hash on the streets of the UK compared to skunk these days, the place got flooded with sputnik, cheap ass , dirty soapbar resin, nobody wants that, but apart from the odd bit of squidgy black theres not enough about anymore, its the best shit for baking, made some wicked hot chocolate the other week with it, boiled it up in milk,with dark chocolate, sugar etc, yer should try it some time

Herbs are for cooking, 'erbs on the other hand, are for packing bongs ^_^