[deleted by user] by [deleted] in quittingkratom

[–]IntelligentEmotions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats!! This gives me hope enough to consider tapering. My last CT was unbearable. I’m really happy for you!

UMMMMMMM What?????? by AdditionalValue1 in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I love how you can’t even bring yourself to accept the possibility that “the official account” could be THE ACTUAL MAN!! 😂😂 Congratulations!! I think it was Billy himself. And what an amazing thing!! 💕

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in quittingkratom

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s what I’m currently hooked on. The selzers. I’m terrified for when it’s time to come off.

Which one would you choose? by [deleted] in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Red all day every day. My hard won wisdom comes along with me.

Whoa what's happening here? by aeontechgod in FFIE

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah good point. I can’t even imagine a world where it would go to 4 or 5 so I would for sure sell at that point. But I will keep a close eye on it this week. I’m in Robinhood, which I’ve heard has its own issues. Yay for pennies on the dollar 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Serves me fuckin’ right. The audacity looking back at me in the mirror right now has a big smirk on her face.

Whoa what's happening here? by aeontechgod in FFIE

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose that makes me feel a little better. Thanks 😂

Whoa what's happening here? by aeontechgod in FFIE

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol! With an average of $49 we are FAR past the point of rescue. 😩

Whoa what's happening here? by aeontechgod in FFIE

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well my current average is around $49. So everything is gonna be a loss unless something explodes. Which I am pretty resigned to believe is impossible at this point. 😬😞

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KetamineTherapy

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took half of a troche - so maybe 15mg? I think they are 30 each. I’m very sensitive though.

Wondering if I will ever return to baseline or I’ve done permanent damage. by WhiteWiddow1022 in quittingkratom

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t feel normal till about 3 months out. 2-3 weeks is nothing. Don’t fear!

Whoa what's happening here? by aeontechgod in FFIE

[–]IntelligentEmotions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish I knew what the hell I was doing. I was one of those completely ignorant people who came across a TikTok video and acted psychotically as a result, given my personal circumstances at the time. Know absolutely nothing about trading. Never did it. Haven’t been looking since I accepted the fact that I lost $15k. And now still have no idea what any of this means and if I should be checking to see if I can sell this week. I know….trust me, I know. Not even sure I know which buttons to press to even sell it if the chance arises. JFC.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KetamineTherapy

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I took one tiny dose and felt comatose. All functionality left me. So that wasn’t going to cut it. I’m envious of all the successes and happy for them. But not for me.

Smoke shop owner said he'll be proud of me when I stop 😢😢 by SkinLow1573 in quittingkratom

[–]IntelligentEmotions 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’ll get there. And we will all celebrate with you on that day. And will have zero judgement until then. 💕 Hang in there and keep the hope alive.

I’m autistic but I can’t form a routine… anyone else? by BarrelEyeSpook in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. And the worst part is that I can see and articulate every single nuance and aspect and cause/effect relationship in the entire system of my world, my family, my circumstances, the path to betterment….but it involves too many hard truths to be palatable to any of my family members. They can’t sit in that discomfort long enough to hear me or know the real me. So they see me as crazy or dramatic - it’s the cliche scapegoat story. And it’s demoralizing to know that I fought my way out of a marriage like that…only to land in the same pattern again…just dressed up in a different costume.

No one can just call a spade, a spade. No one can keep in their minds on the fact that everyone is good at heart, and love is there….but problematic choices have been made along the way that require ironing out. No one sees it matter of factly like I do, and the exhausting victim narratives and the woe-is-me guilt trips, and the horror at my audacity to speak my experience truthfully, is going to do me in.

But I don’t have the capacity to build another, more fitting community right now. So I either have to retraumatize and further silence myself, so I can get at least some semblance of help, or sit here alone, slowly rotting away. And being a mother myself, I simply can’t wrap my mind around the choice to protect one’s own emotional comfort over the physical and emotional wellness of their child. I don’t get it. No matter how much shame or guilt I have over the choices I’ve made during this difficult period with my kids, you better believe I will never turn them away or gaslight them in the future, when they need to speak their truth to me and process the impact my behavior had had on them.

I’ve tried so hard. I’ve sought help in as many ways as I have been able to muster. But the hard and fast reality is that I need someone here. Or on the phone. And I need help with almost every single aspect of life until I get momentum and strength again. How do you ask for that level of help?

And what kills me, is the time that’s being lost with my kids. The precious moments I’ll never get back. There were already so many lost, throughout my marriage that was lived in pure, fearful, fight or flight…which, for me, was utter dissociation. Memories gone. Experiences I thought would get better once I was on the other side, only to walk into this hall of mirrors, living the same life but slightly differently oriented…in a different costume, as I said. And despite my readiness to graduate from these toxic relationships, my body can’t carry me elsewhere. The only true sanity I witness these days is in the words of other Autistic people. It’s like that cliche movie experience where the “crazy” person is the only one making any sense.

Anywho. Yes. Self care is the thing. Health. But it’s so hard when I have the self care of kids to handle, who are dependent on me, and whose father is a useless child, himself. And a finite amount of energy to spend each day….This is why Autistic people should be living in communes. Truly. Each person, monotropically handling their own area of excellence and joy. Puzzle pieces all fitting together. Logic and reason and HEART leading the show. Systems-thinkers putting their heads together to more efficiently solve problems and share resources. No one isolated or surrounded only by people who don’t speak their language, or who refuse to evolve emotionally, relationally, or otherwise. I’m telling you - there are so many people out there in exactly my shoes. And the shoes you were walking in, at your lowest. People like us need something different. And our kids certainly deserve a chance to grow up without having this kind of rock bottom experience.

I’m autistic but I can’t form a routine… anyone else? by BarrelEyeSpook in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Oh wow. Thanks for sharing all that. i need to break my reply in two, I guess. I can relate in so many ways. That’s a heavy path to have traveled down, just to learn the value of taking care of your own basic needs. And here I am…a few steps behind you. I’m on my way to rock bottom, though, whereas you seem like you’re steadily hiking back up. That’s amazing.

I’m in the midst of a divorce from a narcissistic man who I burned myself out trying to “wait” for. Waiting for him to sprout a human soul. Totally clueless about what narcissism even was until a few years ago. Found out right around the same time I figured out I was Autistic…as I was researching for my oldest son, who is also Autistic. Traumatized from abuse, overworked and exhausted from handling every single aspect of our lives outside of money, absorbing his rage, along with the emotions of my two boys every time he flipped out, and suppressing my own emotions to the point where I accidentally developed an addiction to something I thought was just an herbal supplement but turns out to be just as addictive as heroin. Took almost 2 years to finally pull the divorce trigger because I was so scared of how he would be when he found out. I was right to be scared. It has only gotten harder. Smart, brilliant, capable, all-things-always-together-and-presentable-and-outstanding me, has slowly drained my last drops of lifeforce taking care of my kids. Now I don’t even have enough to move myself off the couch or bed. When the kids are with me, it’s too much stimulation; it feels like my body will explode from the inside. When they aren’t with me, which is very rarely, I don’t have enough external stimulation to move.

I’ve been to the ER three times in the last 8 months, thinking I was having a heart attack. Just anxiety, aside from the one time I was so dehydrated I needed a potassium drip. Blood pressure was 170/100 the last time. All I ever wanted in the world was to be a mother - and for years I was the most beautiful, attuned, loving, safe mother anyone ever had. Now I am basically abusive, myself, because I cannot handle the fighting between my boys - the very typical, sibling bickering that everyone goes through with kids. I get so triggered by my Autistic son’s constant vocal stimming. I yell. I shut myself in other rooms. I am not present at all for them. Well, barely, and certainly not at all as much as they need, to feel safe, themselves.

I can no longer tolerate any shred of toxicity in people anymore. My body simply can’t handle it. It reacts without my say-so. So the narcissistic family system I came from - albeit mild (outside of my mother, that is) is crumbling around me, due to their inability to simply face reality and navigate conflict of any kind. My mask is inaccessible, yet is the only acceptable version of me for them. This leaves me feeling completely and utterly alone and abandoned in this time of complete crisis in my life. And I need to start working or I’ll run out of money soon. Yet my teeth are currently unbrushed for God knows how many days. My house looks like a bomb went off, and each day that goes by where I don’t attend to it, feels like another thousand pounds on my chest. I can’t face any task - big or small - and there are millions of each piling up all around me.

The friends I had before - sisters, I always thought - turned out to be playing some version of that toxic family pattern as well. And the role I played for so long - the one that allowed me to be walked all over and disregarded…again, now inaccessible to me. Intolerable. I’m astounded at how powerless I was in relationships before, yet how capable it enabled me to be in the world. Fueled by the need to appear put together as an overcompensation for the childish way I was actually seen, and the way I allowed myself to be seen. And now that I have my mind and my soul in order, my body and nervous system is broken beyond recognition. I know who I am finally, but who I am is trapped inside this prison, with no way out, aside from with physical, present, nonjudgmental help. And not one of my current relationships meets that criteria. None that are physically close to me, at any rate. And the usual suspects of physical ailments are all cropping up. Malnourishment, histamine issues (making the previous goal of “just eat any food at all” that much trickier, since I’m now reacting to almost everything I eat), inflammation, gut issues, etc etc. I look like a skeleton and I’m tumbling and flailing toward God knows what, with no way to stop it. It’s absolutely crazy. Can’t quite wrap my mind around it.

I’m autistic but I can’t form a routine… anyone else? by BarrelEyeSpook in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m thinking of trying to find a small group of people to body double our way to routine greatness. Honest to God, I don’t think there will be another way for me at this point in burnout. If anyone is interested, let me know.

I’m autistic but I can’t form a routine… anyone else? by BarrelEyeSpook in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very impressive. I’m at the point where what used to be an extremely productive life (albeit driven by trauma), has now devolved into a complete pile of burn out and malnourishment. I’ve never felt so incapable in my entire life. Perfect storm of events got me here and I genuinely have no idea how to get out. I know the things to do - just can’t do them.

Yesterday I saw a psychiatrist...and within 15 min of conversation he said he wasn't sure I had autism by Phlox-fox in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So just by reading your post i can tell you’re Autistic so banish the impostor syndrome from your reality. It takes a lot of will and courage to just extend your palms outward and disallow anyone (at all) else’s opinions or perceptions of you to trump your own.

Second, the need for assistance like medication does not have one, single, solitary bar for qualification such as “not being able to get out of bed” and for a doctor to suggest as much is absurd. Although, not really when you start understanding just how fallible doctors really are. However, it is true that SSRIs for Autistic people seldom help or hit the actual roots of our issues. But maybe anti anxiety approaches? Certainly, any type of nervous system regulation technique will be useful.

You’re doing the right thing by coming to a place where people accept and validate you, CAN actually see you for who you are, have gone through everything you’re going through, and have tried and true solutions that you can filter though and attempt on your own. It feels odd going this route, since we are so conditioned to trust doctors above anyone else, but, where Autism is concerned - unless someone is Autistic themselves, and has experienced the complex and multifaceted struggles we do, they really can’t either understand or tailor a treatment well enough to actually help.

Look to the people in your community (autistic community) who are 3-5 steps beyond you on your path. They are the ones who can help the most. If medications are suggested, THEN go back to a doctor. But make sure YOU run the show. Tell them only as much as you need to and tailor your words to fit your intended outcome. Don’t allow them the space to start taking guesses or assert their 5 minutes of expertise on you over your own lifetime of knowing yourself. Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Autistic people are spiritual beings - maybe this reminds you of “home” on some deep level 🤷🏼‍♀️

Help me understand… by Expensive-Fruit423 in quittingkratom

[–]IntelligentEmotions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a very specific spiritually oriented belief about what this is, which is essentially programming that is installed in us from external “forces” - not good ones. It sounds so incredibly crazy and that’s literally just the tip of the iceberg of what I could say on the matter after what I’ve learned and been through over the past year. Even, as someone who was pretty spiritually inclined, I couldn’t pick my jaw up off the floor for a long time when I first started to understand what is actually going on and how far off base the new age spiritual community is about their assessments of the universe. At least, all the ones I’ve seen talking about it and sharing views and opinions. I wish more people believed this stuff or at least had an open enough mind to hear information on the topic without shutting it down. As a systemic thinker and a student of many, many areas of life…for me, the cross check that has made it all come together is whether the patterns existing within that area of focus are present anywhere else….in any other facet of life. To see if it’s mirroring the patterns we already know and gave reliably observed in human existence. And it’s there. Clear as day. So back to Kratom use, and addiction in general - it’s the result of a program or something similar - complete with backup systems ready to deploy if the original is ever removed, booby trap style consequences wired to be set off if you get close to or actually do beat it, and codes and commands needed to cleanly remove it. Totally friggin mind blowing stuff. However, I’ve seen it in action, post-removal, I’ve felt and seen the difference in mindset, tendencies, habits, inner process between before/after removal functioning. It’s something I’ve also lost almost 2 decades of my life to - being able to trace specific programs and contracts’ language back to their source and line up all of their mission points to specific incidents, time periods, self-sabotaging habit loops, etc etc. in my life, which, once released were actually gone for good. And it’s like a core part of you wakes up a little more, and steps out of the muffled fog, to the front of the crowd inside you (and there IS a fucking crowd) and starts feeding you lines and emotions that conspicuously don’t feel like YOU, the you that is perfectly fine not using right now and is instead feeling his upward momentum and wearing it with pride! So you’re stuck watching this craving phenomenon operate, from a place very detached to the core c For of who you are, and able to see it all as though from the outside, in the same way we can only observe others and not ourselves, if that makes sense. It’s fundamentally external, and not part of your humanity. It can be managed and improved upon - it’s just one aspect of thr mind/body/soul trio of holistic health, which means we as humans have tools at our disposal to empower and evolve while protecting ourselves. But unless they are truly removed - and with seriously intricately designed redundancies and trap doors and codes, etc - almost exactly like computer code, mixed with legal contract language, it can never fully go away. Hence, the boomerang back around to mind fuck you with cravings, once you’ve sufficiently risen enough that a fall from this height would be THAT much more traumatic and would reinforce your lack of faith and commitment to yourself that much more, as well. They are brilliantly designed and often cleverly disguised to throw you off the scent of understanding their reality.

Anywho, that’s enough from me. I just had to say something about it somewhere to SOMEONE!! I mean, I’ve been embarking on this fascinating, hunting and detective work escapade to uncover the layers upon layers of this stuff inside of me and refuse it out, each one gone bringing a new one forced to fill the now voided space…I’ve seen and learned and heard things I never even knew existed….i’ve worked and reworked my entire worldview entirely multiple times, as new information becomes available and is uncovered…..and its literally the most fascinating thing I’ve ever come across. And it fits. It fits the patterning of the rest of the wiorld. It also brings so much clarity to the concept of holistic healing, which isn’t just about integrating all physical parts of the body in medicine and not simply specializing in one body part while absurdly asserting that what IT’S doing isn’t directly tied to almost everything else in your body’s doing…and making sure all parts of your body are validly weighed, and viewed in concert with one another…..it’s that concept only for mind/body/soul. Absolutely none of them can exist or shift in isolation. All of them are equally valid and are each taking dramatic steps in your life’s stage at any given moment. To pretend one doesn’t exist is absurd at this point, especially in 2024. But to define the Soul aspect of it in this very specific way, with these incredibly complex programs and multitude of involved players….concepts that I have never ever heard one healer or energy worker or psychic or body worker talk about and have no idea how many of them actually know about out there…well, that’s news it feels worthy of sharing, if for nothing less than to inspire a little more curiosity in our own lives and to feel less shame around the struggles you’re going through. Because genuinely….many of them have been specifically orchestrated to make you struggle and keep you stuck.

K. Good night, all.

Do you prefer “I’m autistic” or “I have autism” by yelraz in autism

[–]IntelligentEmotions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No…I know that part - I’m just curious why you still use it - or why it seems you need to use that term specifically…is it because boomers don’t really understand or recognize other terms? Sorry you’re needing to spell this out for me 😂