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  Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:57:26 -0000

  From: " julespalaia " <julespalaia@...>

Subject: Re: NEW SYMPTOMS - Any advice?

HI THanks for you responses. I get my LDN from Skips in 1.5mg capsule

form and mix it each night, so it shouldn't be old. I'd appreciate

any other thoughts from anyone.

HAs anyone else been told that MRIs cause tumors?? and is it true

they won't show progression/stopped progression?

THANKS!!! "

Hi ,

Well you are getting the LDN from one of the best but I wonder why you are

only taking 1.5mg, You mentioned also that you are mixing it every night.

Why would you not just take the capsules. Hpefully you are up to taking 3

per day cuz that would be 4.5mg. JoyceF

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Well, I do want to first state that I've never been 'diagnosed' as

having Autism, however to be fair I never really saw a doctor

specializing with Autism to really be evaluated. My parents weren't

really big on taking us to the doctor- however they knew I had

'problems.' Even if I did have some form of Autism I'd probably be

classified as high functioning. To be entirely honest I still know

very little about Autism.

Let me first say that most of my life I have had (and been diagnosed)

with OCD, as well as ADHD. I experienced a lot of anxiety growing up.

However- to answer your question, I guess it would be yes and no. I

want to try to be objective and logical about this- but when I was

young and we would go see fireworks on the 4th of July my mother would

have to plug my ears because I really didn't like (couldn't tolerate)

the loud sound, it scared me. That might be fairly typical for

children so I don't know. When we would go to the car races the cars

seemed overwhelmingly loud to me and I had to plug my ears. I would

even plug my own ears for hours on end if need be. While they were

loud I'm not entirely sure how I would compare to children in general.

My brothers, sisters and family members didn't have much trouble.

That did always puzzled me. I was kind of labeled a 'wuss' because I

was very sensitive to a lot of things. Like I mentioned earlier, it

just seemed like all of my senses were in 'hyper-mode.' The sunlight

really seemed to bother my eyes, I couldn't stand sounds as loud as

other people in my family. I was very emotionally sensitive- I would

get my feelings hurt easily and cry a lot for many years. It just

generally felt like I was 'on edge' most all of the time. Very

anxious, extremely apprehensive, my 'system'- my 'internals', my

'central nervous system' most always felt incredibly stressed. Even

at a young age I would get really angry if my mother or father would

ask me to do something because 'internally' I felt like I was juggling

so many things at once. That was always sort of a 'joke' in my family

(there were six children) because on the outside I wasn't really doing

anything, or hardly anything, and they would give me a simple task and

I'd come unglued because I felt so overwhelmed with so many things I

had going on inside my own head... lol.

I would emphatically reply " I'm BUSY doing a TON of things, " and they

would reply, " busy with what??? " Looking back I suppose on the

outside I didn't have a whole lot going on- but internally was a

different story.

It always felt like they were interrupting me! A little bit as though

you might be counting 1,000 marbles, 945, 946, 947- then someone

blurts something out and makes you lose track of where you were at,

etc. I hope that makes sense. It is frustrating and you feel like

you basically have to start back over or figure where you were at again.

I cannot experience what it is like to be in someone else's head- so

this might be quite common but I'll put it out there for you.

All my life I notice that no matter what I'm looking at I am

constantly 'outlining' the object- be it a counter, floor tiles,

letters, pictures, carpet squares, wall corners, etc... I am

consistently 'measuring' things with my mind's eye, and I picture

lines cutting shapes of the objects around me in half; while imagining

putting one half over with the left hand side, then transfering it to

the right hand side, etc. I visually will see 'lines' that mark out

objects or shapes and I am 'essentially' cutting up shapes with my

mind's eye and transfering them to even them out or rearranging them.

Of course- I have never been in another person's head so that might be

common I don't know. It has in the past become quit annoying however

because it will become a 'little bit' of an obsession. I will sort of

temporarily lose track of my surroundings and mentally cut up, divide,

add, pull apart, turn, spin, and adjoin shapes of objects around me in

my mind's eye. If I'm talking on the phone I will undoubtably find

myself walking in circles and watching where I step and walk inside

the same tiles, walk on the same piece of carpeting, then 'balance' it

out by stepping on the other side of the tile to 'make it even.' I'm

so used to it now days I don't even realize I'm doing it.

My mind is constantly going- constantly turning some odd, useless fact

or concept over and over and over in my mind. I attempt to put a stop

to it when I notice myself doing it by just taking deep breaths. That

becomes enormously frustrating for me because my mind will run off and

I will lose track of what I'm doing in the 'present.' The topics

TRULY are pointless and beyond bizarre- having little to no bearing on

real life. I do notice that gets worse when something in my

environment is affecting me... allergens, chemicals, etc.

One thing I have to be mindful of is trying to keep myself from

obsessing over things. I can obsess like no one's business. I can

get stuck on something for hours upon hours, even days. I think it

would drive most people crazy if they spent as much time focused on

one topic as I often do. I rarely get bored because I feel like I

have SO much going on inside my head I have a hard time imagining

being 'bored.' Times when I actually feel like most everything around

me is 'calm' and not much is going on is kind of nice, but also very

odd feeling. It feels a little bit like, " is this what other people

feel?? Now I understand why people can get so bored! " If I'm reading

or researching something on the internet I can literally spend 20 or

more hours straight doing it. Maybe stopping to eat just a little

bit... my mind becomes so fixated I don't even notice the time around

myself.

And as you might have noticed I often find myself writing pages of

emails to people and sometimes having a difficult time 'closing down'

from typing.

I hope some of this is helpful...

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>

> Hi ,

>

> Thank you for your post! I have a question for you. Did loud noises

> (music, loud voices, toilets flushing, etc) affect you? If they did,

> what did it feel like.

>

> I appreciate your help.

>

> God bless,

> Argie

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