Comments on: The Crossings of 2 American Shamenz https://timdreby.com/american-shamenz-in-the-system-and-american-shamenz-out/ TIM DREBY, MFT Sat, 25 Mar 2023 01:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 By: admin https://timdreby.com/american-shamenz-in-the-system-and-american-shamenz-out/#comment-10125 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:34:44 +0000 https://timdreby.com/?p=7409#comment-10125 In reply to Margo Mulvihill.

Wow, thank you for reading my essay. You have an amazing story. I know other people with autism and add who also struggle with CFS. Here’s to having intuitive knowledge and to the drive to keep going and celebrating our neuro-diversity and contributions instead of being institutionalized! I appreciate you telling your story with me!

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Thank you so much for reading! You helped make my day!

]]> By: Margo Mulvihill https://timdreby.com/american-shamenz-in-the-system-and-american-shamenz-out/#comment-10070 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 02:04:16 +0000 https://timdreby.com/?p=7409#comment-10070 HO! LY! SHIT!, TIM. YOU HAVE TO TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOURSELF. I was mesmerized through the whole thing. I’m sure I have so many diagnoses, I don’t know how to define myself. I was raised in the deep woods of northwest New Jersey after WWII. Both of my parents had high school educations, were unrecognized as brilliant, and had varying degrees of ADD and autism I’m sure. My father came home from the Battle of the Bulge with his leg blown off and with PTSD. I grew up in terror of him. I, myself, was autistic and ADD, although I wouldn’t find that out until I was 66. He also shared his PTSD with me very early on. I excelled in getting the farm work done. I excelled academically because, even if I wasn’t perfect, if I did better than everyone else, I might be allowed to live. Valedictorian of my high school, Phi Beta Kappa my junior year of college because I had the highest GPA in my class, BS and MS degrees in physics. (I got my MS at Michigan State University. I had the privilege of seeing OJ Simpson play when USC came to East Lansing. I’m not even a football fan, and it’s still a memory of a lifetime.) In 1978 I got a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. In chiropractic school, I went through my medical textbooks and crossed so many things out and put “NO” in the margins. I’m still batting 1000 on that, and they haven’t caught up with me yet, especially on the endocrine system. I was in private practice for 20 years. After that, I taught physics and math at Western Nevada Community College in Minden, then math at UNR from 2001 to 2005. Finally, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome I’d had since 1981 forced me to go on disability. (I know that CFS is caused by sub-clinical viral damage to the hypothalamus, resulting in dys-regulation of the adrenals.) I moved to an acre of hard-pan clay and river rock in the heart of Reno and spent the next 13 years conducting my own agricultural research on perennial, prolific, food-producing plants hardy to the high desert of northern Nevada. In 2006 I was finally diagnosed as having been autistic and ADD all my life. I had been very silent all my life, but I haven’t been able to shut up ever since. Now, I’ve just moved to a 10-acre horse ranch north of Minden, Nevada. In the process of moving my agricultural project down here, I’m going to clean up and re-landscape the whole place.Where was I? Oh, yes. Time to end this and go to bed.

]]> By: Ceci https://timdreby.com/american-shamenz-in-the-system-and-american-shamenz-out/#comment-10069 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 01:52:31 +0000 https://timdreby.com/?p=7409#comment-10069 Good read. A lot for me to think about here. One thought most loved: “In another sense, he is observing a new skill he can learn here. He often learns by observing the beautiful spirits of others. He now believes in a spiritual world that guides people. It’s taken him a while but he can understand how elements of the spirit can be lost in some Communist regimes as well as by countries that enslave and exploit others for profit or cheap labor.”

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