 You want to make the claim that this is because autism is becoming more common, so now this is becoming a more popular genre of fiction. You'd first want to know that that is the case. Wait, wait, stop the presses. Elliot Blatt has been kicked off next door. So Elliot Blatt was having all these intense arguments on next door, and he says, I just got kicked off next door, the app for implying that different people have different gifts. This is a blessing in disguise, Elliot, that you may step away from doing combat online, which is probably not in your best interests or in the best interests of your neighborhood. But condolences, I mean, every loss, all right, it knocks us back, and it's disheartening, and it may prompt one to engage in introspection and to slow your role, to reconsider how you're doing things, and this might look to many people like depression, but I don't want you to just automatically go out and try to get on SSRIs because you feel like your role has been slowed, you feel you're feeling down, all right? I don't want you to just go out there and start medicating your sadness, all right? You're experiencing normal human sadness, you've suffered a significant loss, right? This app which played an important role in your life has now been denied to you and you're feeling bereft of community, you're feeling bereft of connection, you feel like you're spiraling downward, you're sapped from your energy, you drive, you're increasingly turning to nicotine gum to try to keep going, but there's not enough caffeine or nicotine gum in the world to fill the hole in your soul right now that comes from the loss of the next door app, but don't worry, it gets better. So I'm on my third day without Adderall, and it's funny, I think I now more significantly understand what Adderall does for me by having three days off of Adderall. I accidentally lost half of my prescription pills for Adderall, so I got to pace myself and no Adderall for three days, and this is what life is like for me now without Adderall. My mind skips like one of those old record players that would skip, so I started doing an exercise that typically takes me 15 minutes yesterday, and a minute in, I was just dying to do something else, and it wasn't a rigorous exercise, wasn't a demanding exercise, wasn't an onerous exercise, it was a very simple, pleasant exercise, but a minute in, I wanted to skip to doing something else, so I noticed without Adderall, I want to skip from book to book, from podcast to podcast, from exercise procedure to exercise procedure to cleaning this and noting down that, I just noticed my mind skipping around a lot more, so this used to be normal, then I had two weeks of experience with Adderall, where I couldn't really notice any difference after taking the pill, but now that I'm not taking the pill, I just noticed how much more my attention wonders how much more I need stimulation and just how more difficult it is to have sustained focus, so experiencing life now three days without Adderall, I understand why the predominant perspective on ADHD is that you cannot make progress with your ADHD, that there is no solution to your ADHD without taking the top line stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall, I kind of viscerally understand that perspective now because I'm experiencing my mind just like flitting from here and there, I'm experiencing like how much more difficult it is to sustain my focus, and I wasn't really aware of this, I was just dimly aware, but I've been dimly aware of this for 20 years, people have talked to me about ADHD, maybe I should get diagnosed for ADHD and thought maybe I'd do it, and I don't think I would have ever done it except that it's so easy now, right, since the pandemic, right, it's much easier to get an online Zoom medical appointment, I got an online Zoom medical appointment, I saw a doctor for about 40 minutes, got diagnosis of ADHD, got a prescription for a very low level, five milligrams twice a day of Adderall, and the procedure was so much easier, I don't think I would have gone through all the rigor and all the appointments and all the tests and bringing a friend along, and it's usually quite demanding, highly time-consuming and challenging to get an adult diagnosis of ADHD, and now that there are various online portals for doing it, just put, you know, I need to get an ADHD diagnosis into Google and all these ads will pop up for online ways of getting diagnosed, but because it's so easy to get the opportunity to be tested and then get diagnosed and then try out a very low level of Adderall, that's what enabled me to finally do something that had been kind of in my head for about 20 years, but many things can wander around as a possibility in my head for decades without me taking action. I finally took action, took the pills, didn't really notice much of a difference, but now that I'm three days without the pills, now I notice the difference. Now I see how my brain is not really serving me, is it just like flits from task to task, thought to thought that doing the simplest exercises become restless to do something different, and then if I jump up and do something different, in all likelihood within two, five, 10 minutes, I'll feel compelled to do something else. And also I think like people writing from their autobiographical perspective and disguising as fiction, it's not entirely a new genre of fiction that I've never heard of before, that I've heard of plenty of weirs that selling very familiar to this in previous generations, so yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Proust and the Richard de Tomsebo do. Exactly, all of that, man, all of that. And you can hear the same kind of loose reasoning when they're talking about autism and testosterone. Here's an example. That's interesting, because I have a question about autism, which there's some common sort of perceptions about it, that it's also due to an excess of testosterone, which is why most autists are male, and that it's, I have someone describe it to me as like being excessively male. I mean, seriously, just listening to these brief snippets from The Red Scare, I mean, how does anyone with half a brain stand listening to this podcast? Brain and thus lacking kind of the more feminine instincts for like empathizing and like graciousness. Sure, that's part of it, testosterone levels. I hadn't heard of it being too high. Yeah, and it's funny when I mentioned to people this experience of a few days without Adderall, the overwhelming reaction, oh, you're just detoxing, bro. You don't detox from five milligrams of Adderall, right, you might detox from three months of 20 milligrams a day of Adderall. You don't detox from two weeks of a total of 10 milligrams a day of Adderall. So, no, I don't think it's detoxing. It is by normal state, and because I've had the experience of being medicated, I noticed the difference, right? Quick burst on Israel. See, I'm flitting around because I don't have my Adderall. Jaldiz and Gaza. It's very hard to believe that, especially on a day when one of our producers lost nine members of his family, nine members of his family, who were not members of Khamad-