Okay, that does seem like a strange thing to say.
I have a theory that when an NT uses cannabis, especially for the first time, and likes it, what they're feeling is that this is how they prefer to be. They are actually inducing a temporary experience of autism.
In my observations of people on cannabis, including myself, I have come to realise that in an intentional altered state, so I don't mean going out to a club or drinking with mates and having a good time, I'm mean someone using cannabis to feel better, more balanced, at peace, experience creativity. To be what we call ‘high’ is realer than not being.
Some say autism is a disability, and obviously there are levels of autism that seem incongruous with living in the regular world easily. They are in their own reality, which could equate to taking a big dose of edible cannabis and literally not being able to function in the world, which feels very different to normal life. They don’t have to get used to the strangeness, which is the experience the autistic has to. A world that focuses on left brain things, often negative things, sensorially challenging, making it incredibly difficult for someone who is neurologically different to handle. Just as it is difficult for those who are very high from cannabis to handle things the way they are used to. They have no way to compensate for this difference except do their best to experience it, hopefully enjoy it and then eventually return to normal, and the world feels familiar and makes sense again.
This may seem like a strange theory, especially for those who never use cannabis as they have no real point of reference. But I suggest many of those we call NT are actually living in a deficit, something is missing, which is why the world is the way it is, and why Cannabis helps balance them.
So for those millions of NT’s who enjoy cannabis, who’ve realised that it sort of fills a hole they didn't know they had, where many use it constantly, in many cultures, some religious practices (the Sadhus in India and the Rastafarians in Jamaica), prefer who they are when they do. Life feels better and more meaningful.
For those NT’s who find cannabis makes a positive difference in their life, they are essentially bringing themselves to what we would know as autistic, which is actually more ‘normal’, and they're now feeling far more normal than they were before they took it.
I have a theory that when an NT uses cannabis, especially for the first time, and likes it, what they're feeling is that this is how they prefer to be. They are actually inducing a temporary experience of autism.
In my observations of people on cannabis, including myself, I have come to realise that in an intentional altered state, so I don't mean going out to a club or drinking with mates and having a good time, I'm mean someone using cannabis to feel better, more balanced, at peace, experience creativity. To be what we call ‘high’ is realer than not being.
Some say autism is a disability, and obviously there are levels of autism that seem incongruous with living in the regular world easily. They are in their own reality, which could equate to taking a big dose of edible cannabis and literally not being able to function in the world, which feels very different to normal life. They don’t have to get used to the strangeness, which is the experience the autistic has to. A world that focuses on left brain things, often negative things, sensorially challenging, making it incredibly difficult for someone who is neurologically different to handle. Just as it is difficult for those who are very high from cannabis to handle things the way they are used to. They have no way to compensate for this difference except do their best to experience it, hopefully enjoy it and then eventually return to normal, and the world feels familiar and makes sense again.
This may seem like a strange theory, especially for those who never use cannabis as they have no real point of reference. But I suggest many of those we call NT are actually living in a deficit, something is missing, which is why the world is the way it is, and why Cannabis helps balance them.
So for those millions of NT’s who enjoy cannabis, who’ve realised that it sort of fills a hole they didn't know they had, where many use it constantly, in many cultures, some religious practices (the Sadhus in India and the Rastafarians in Jamaica), prefer who they are when they do. Life feels better and more meaningful.
For those NT’s who find cannabis makes a positive difference in their life, they are essentially bringing themselves to what we would know as autistic, which is actually more ‘normal’, and they're now feeling far more normal than they were before they took it.
