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Sentient Paradox wrote:Uh, at the risk of offending, I feel the need to relate a bit of personal experience with the affects of Marijuana among other drugs on me.
This is personal experience mind you, and you can probably think of exceptions, but there are exceptions to every generality. The last thirty years has taught me my experience is akin to the experience of MOST who have messed with drugs, and that in general, MOST agree with me once they've learned what I have learned.
Treating AS with psychotropic drugs, depressants and stimulants in an uncontrolled environment DOESN'T work.
I smoked pot. I smoked a LOT of pot, dropped acid, did coke for a while, and drank a LOT during the eighties.
I thought it was helping too. It took getting off all that crap to realize that what it had really done was waste an entire decade of my life. I won't bore you with the details of why I decided to quit (I did it on my own, and even moved away from my home town to avoid associations and temptation. I never went back.). Suffice to say there were clear signs that I needed to make some major changes, and giving up the lifestyle was top on the list.
Here's what a figured out after quitting, that I never would have seen if I hadn't.
Whatever social skills I thought I was learning during that period amounted to nothing more than interactions with other equally socially disabled people. Yeah, I found I could make connections, but all of those connections had been with severely dysfunctional people. None of them were truly successful. Some of them owned businesses, and made a lot of money. Some of them owned awesome homes, and were looked up to in the community (or so I thought).
Yes, I'll bet you can think of a hundred names of apparently successful people, who make tons of money, and are very famous on top of it. But fame and money doesn't equal success. Most of them, I guarantee, are failures in a personal sense. Most can't maintain lifelong, HEALTHY relationships. For every hundred names you might come up with, I can probably come up with five hundred equally famous names who have made numerous trips to rehab.
Now, I'm NOT a hardcore member of AA. I'm not even a soft core member. I'm not a member at all, in fact. I'm not one of those guys that'll tell you everyone that drinks has a problem, and they're just in denial.
But I will tell you this. Pot doesn't help with any social abilities that really matter. This comes from my own personal experience, and the experience of dozens of people I've met over the last twenty years, who have been there, and quit like I did.
After clearing my head, I began to meet a lot of truly successful people, and to learn from them. Not just financially successful. I'm talking about guys with a lot of friends going back to childhood, that they never lost touch with. Guys with great marriages, some making a lot of money, or not much money, but who work for themselves, and run their own lives.
People who don't drink a lot regularly, and don't mess around with drugs, because they're too damned busy making their lives happen. The difference between me, and nearly everyone I've met so far the same age as me, and who quit all that around the same time as I did, is clear. They made much faster progress after quitting than I did. They didn't have AS.
In my late teens, I was already behind. I had the social skills of a preteen. About seven or so years behind my peers. When I started using drugs, social development seemed to me to begin to get better. It must have been better, because I had more friends, and I was getting out a lot, right?
Wrong. But I didn't understand what was happening until AFTER I quit. Other guys, who were giving it all up at the same time I did, went on to better jobs, start their own businesses, and on, and on. I moved away, got my own apartment for the first time in my life, worked as a cashier in a convenience store, and went home at night. That's it. That was the extent of my life for about five years.
I found that my social skills, now that there were no drugs to impair my perceptions, were no better than they were when I started. Now, I was over fifteen years behind my peers.
I can look back now as see all that now. Hind sight is twenty twenty, but only if you can see it clearly, which you can't behind drug induced fogs.
My two dollars worth?
AS is a social skills disorder, primarily. Messing with drugs that remove, and/or obscure the feeling of reality from your senses is a hindrance to dealing with that kind of disorder, not a help.
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