Thanks for posting man. It is hard to be so honest I'm sure. I don't know anyone personally with autism but I'm a little bit out there myself and I can empathize with some of the things your saying. My advice would be to not be so hard on yourself. Oh that band Pascal Pinon you posted in chat is awesome BTW. Thanks

My advice to you is to try and not get offended. It has really helped me tremendously. Something about this emotional layer I think is a way of the ego trying to protect itself from changing. Because, what is really being said from an objective point of view in any kind of situation is in probably most cases, not all is usually helpful and informative in some way or another. Either way, an objective truth is found. And any kind of objective truth is fundamentally required to be free from offense or any sort of emotion. I.E. An objective truth may be that someone has an opinion that differs from yours'

Which brings me to my next point. Be confident in one's strength and acknowledge weakness. But most of all, cultivate confidence and strength. This also ties in with not being offended. Like how can you, when you are confident?~

Not sure if helpful. Or if i'm even being respectful towards you but If you need a break, take a break. Honestly, having not read much of ur words. I do not think other people on this forum perceive things in such a negative daylight as you seem to portray

To me, your post is asking for 2 different things. You expect people to acknowledge your problems and treat you specially, yet desire to be treated equally? I haven't read your other posts, but I wouldn't have guessed any less of you from this one. I think you're attracting your own burden by disclaiming yourself as challenged. Society is challenging for everyone in different ways; you're no exception. There are many, many people struggling just to survive, and you're healthy enough to joke about the choice online. You know how privileged you are? No, we don't get to choose our family or our minds, none of us do. But I think you have a lot to be thankful for and nothing to be ashamed of.

Edit: so I just saw your post in the cube is a cube thread and understand a little more now. Snozzleberry was being very blunt with you, an attitude that I see often from senior members. But don't take it personally, this place does have a higher standard of content to maintain. The OP's question was simple but you made it a lot more complicated. Yes, mycology is very complex, but you shouldn't assume that just because someone is curious about cubes that they care to study mycology. The beauty of the internet is that we can query for details that only others with a lifetime of research could answer, saving you that much time. The OP was looking for one of those single details, not an explanation of how to eventually determine the answer for themselves.

I like your philosophical attitude though. You should make your own thread to talk about the subject more deeply and I think it would be highly appreciated by others looking for that. I personally am interested in mycology and philosophy so it gave me a lot to think about. Can't fit all the knowledge in one place though; let simple threads be simple.

Hello! You are most welcome here, don't worry. i have something to share with you! I could write on it for a while too but i will wait to see what your thoughts are.

Anthropologist Mircea Eliade's pivotal book Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy describes how in many tribes, the same mental-emotional experiences that you are describing, the shamans reported in their own words these types of emotions.

There is a very beautiful and extensive amount of information that links shamanism and autism! It seems like in many natural tribes, people who grow up and have certain behaviors and moods are understood to fit into the roles of shamans.

In our present societies or however to describe them, the cultural space does not exist as openly that allows people

a) who experience connections to the role of shamans
b) who experience
autism and related different consciousnesses
c) people who experience both

to be understood fully and therefore allowing a fully enriched and integrated human culture to exist...!
Yet thankfully many people from many perspectives are trying to help bring this closer and closer to being.
After all, whether people with autism experiences for example would all want to be shamans, as they may not, shamans and entheogens regardless could help many people with autism...!
There is a very distinctly interconnected set of realities in this.

Whether it is the ability of MDMA to help trauma, psilocybin to help the depth of consciousness, ganga/cannabis to help epilepsy, cancer, autism, and DMT to help with many aspects of life; all of these explorations are allowing an understanding to be reached and what honestly is a type of cultural enlightenment to become more possible.

We are all part of a very dynamically real and radically communicative picture of life.
You will be accepted here! I understand your perspectives and i am sure others do too!

Brother please don't think that everyone else at the nexus is completely 'normal'...

Alex,

Thank you for taking the time to post all of this.


This is all I was driving at in the other thread. I'm sorry that I did not take the time/make the effort to put it into kinder words.

Hey Alex, we are all subjects of the human condition. If any one of us were "normal," we probably wouldn't be on the DMT nexus. But, each one of is as normal as we will ever be. For us, eccentric is the norm. Embrace it. ya know?

Alex,

Great posts man; to put yourself/thoughts out there for all us to read. Thank you for this much better understanding.

I've said it a few times, but I think you deserve promotion.

Of course a warm welcome, and thanks for taking the time for writing this so we can understand you better!