Can Weed Help Kids with Autism?



Autism is on the rise with no cause or cure in sight. Adrift in a void of medical data, more parents are breaking federal laws by …

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  1. Thanks for this.
    These kind of videos help me to feel not alone in my single father lifestyle caring for a 8 year old non verbal autistic.
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  2. I have Autism. Let me speak for people with Autism, rather than people that know me. They do not know what transpires within the confines of my skull, only I do.

    There are predominately two types of autism; inherited, and acquired. There is strong evidence for autism and high intelligence sharing the same genes, which is inherited autism. This is generally referred to as "high functioning autism," but this is not a medical diagnosis. The eccentrics, the weirdos? Yeah, probably just autistic. We just got better at spotting it, but it's not something that needs to be cured. It's not the end of your life, and it's not a blight on your existence. Your kid is weird, but still relatively "normal".

    I can tell if someone has inherited autism within minutes of meeting them. I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's almost as if they're a kindred spirit. I can see it in how they carry themselves, how they casually avert their gaze and occasionally meet mine, and this unnatural certainness to how they walk. To any fellow autists out there, I swear I'm not calling you out, but we're just so obvious to each other; or maybe I just pay too much attention.

    On the other hand, there are many different diseases which "cause" autism. Typically, this is what most people think of when they hear autism, but it actually represents a minority of people with autism. They have other, much more severe issues that require attention, and some of those issues can cause symptoms that look like autism, but it isn't. For these people, they do indeed need a cure, but it isn't for autism; it's for the disease causing autistic like symptoms.

    I believe a large part of the problem is the lack of understanding between these different types of Autism. I actually believe that the umbrella term for Autism and its "spectrum" is complete and total bullshit. It's 100% a cop out to actually finding an answer. What I mean is, we are understanding more and more than virtually every disease is a result of specific mutations in specific genes, and some of those genes are directly responsible for "high functioning autism." Somewhere else, there are genes responsible for a variety of developmental, neurological, or other disorders which can cause symptoms of autism.

  3. How can you say something isnā€™t a medicine when you yourself witnessed the night and day difference in that child? Just because it has been scientifically proven? What a joke

  4. I've been saying this for years and years I'm 28 and have autism and pot truly makes life actually livable because without it suicide would easily be the answer because life is way too hard and it's becoming increasingly difficult to even wake up and get out of bed because I already know the day is full of triggers and emotional turmoil, I have been smoking and using cannabis since I was a teenager and the day I found it was the day I found myself. And I could care less about any government law or state or federal law if it makes my life easier and more comfortable then screw it I'll break the law everyday with a smile on my face because I'm not getting hooked on fake medicine from big pharma while the real medicine is being ignored. If your life is as bad as mine or feel life is undoing try cannabis before anything else it WILL change your life

  5. idk if this helps with understanding people who have more severe autism but when i see people with that i do feel similar to them and on a level understand what they think. sometimes when i am in public i have moments where sudenly the texture of my clothes and stuff are insanely uncomfterable to the point i lowkey wanna rip my skin off. then i have to be alone at home in that exact moment. these moments happen often in car rides (especially on a car ride back after a vacation of sleeping in the same room as other people) i also do random movements sometimes and i can only explain it as how it feels when youre very cold and your body starts shaking. i have long periods of time where i feel like that even though im warm, then my body just has to do a sudden movement. when i plan something, for some reason think everyone can read my mind and i dont have to tell people the plan i have even if it involves them or something they own. and i also plan out my whole day/week at the start of it so when i have unexpected plans its very hard for me because then theres other things that i still want to do and if my day/week is unpredictable i just shut down. i hope this helps people understand it better(even tho i have less severe autism, this could be a downscaled version of what goes on in peoples minds with severe autism)

  6. i dont like how people talk about their austistic kids as if they ā€œlost themā€ to autism. You decided to have a kid, and kids come in many shapes and forms and abilities and thatā€™s a risk you take when you bring another human being into this world. You didnt lose anything, you gained the responibility you wouldā€™ve had in one way or another. Society and sometimes their own spouses, still fail parents of autistic children but that is not your childs fault. It upsets me hearing people talk about their autistic kids in that way, like they ruined the parents marriage.. maybe that shouldve been a conversation you had with that person before you had kids with them.

  7. I was a special education teacherr for over 20 years, working with many students with autism. After I left the profession, I discovered cannabis. It has changed my life. I can't stop thinking about how this miracle drug could have helped many of my students concentrate and be relieved of some of their anxiety. Cannabis is medicine-BigPharma doesn't want you using things you can grow in your garden-not good for their business.

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