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One of my twins was born helplessly disabled due to severe hydrocephalus, which led to severe cerebral palsy. It starts with you from all the brain surgery resulted in pretty bad epilepsy. He's so far off the charts that he can't really be tested but we know he's also very autistic. Not like on the Spectrum as people say these days I mean like he is the Spectrum . he covers every bit of it. It's evident in his severe sensitivity issues.. I mean severe.

It just so happens that his mom is dying of stage 4 lung and brain cancer. I would really like for him to look his best at her imminent funeral and hopefully before that I'd like her to see him looking his best also at least once before she goes

Due to his severe sensitivity issues, you will not let people touch his head or get anywhere near it with Clippers or scissors or anything like that. We have to cut little bits and pieces here and there when we can while he's asleep. It's a never-ending haircut.

My barber of the last 20-something years has wholeheartedly agreed to teach me what I need to know in order to give my son the first decent haircut he's ever had in his life of 24 years, that wasn't done by a brain surgeon in pre-op. Although, I do have to give his old dentist a big shout out. He used to have to sedate him for those same sensitivity issues in order to clean his teeth. The man was a saint. He would bring his own personal Clippers to the clinic the days my son would show up for his appointment and while he was sedated (my son 😉), and would give him a complete GI Joe Buzz cut, free of charge.

Okay, here's where I need the help. Im considering getting my son stoned a little bit before taking him to the barber. I've got a decarboxylator and some decent wedding cake, like a half pound of it , LOL don't ask, and if you don't think he's special enough yet, my son is also fed 100" of his nutrients through a G-tube that we've been feeding him through since he was 5 years old. So getting it into him is not going to be a problem. I'm just struggling with the ethics of it all. What are your opinions of me slipping a finite amount of Narcotics into my son without his knowledge or any experience with such a narcotic in the past. Although that Risperdal he was on for a good part of his life probably makes the little bit of weed I'm suggesting seem like a couple drops of lavender in the essential oil diffuser in comparison. But I'm still torn.

I've got almost 50 years of experience smoking weed. It's not the drug I'm worried about. Like I said, it really is the ethics. His whole life I've been his protector . I feel like I might be to betraying him a little bit. On the other hand, this could be what he's been needing to dial down these sensitivity issues.

I read an article on it years ago about a man who gave his young Autistic daughter marijuana and it was very beneficial to her. I think I recall the only downside being public opinion since she was like 8 years old or something like that but it really calmed her down without droning her out, making her much more functional

Also. Does anyone have any advice on making tea from decarbed weed? I'm not sure if this wedding cake will grind into a fine enough powder to make it through the little check valve in his button (connection point for the g-tube). ..and oral delivery hasn't been an option for over 19 years and was a long shot faint option the 5 years it ever was an option, hence the G-tube.

I'm really hoping we can all come together and regardless of our perspectives, we only make constructive, forward progress on this post. Let's at least try?

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I'm neurodivergent, not as extreme as your son, with PTSD. I have a medical prescription for CBD oil which I use under my tongue. The CBD calms me and prevents terrifying PTSD nightmares, which I get, when I get tired or stressed.

I would recommend consulting his doctor for advice.
Jayciedubb · 56-60, M
@Guardian thanks for the info. Ive got severe PTSD too. From war. Ive been smoking weed since before PTSD. Ive been using it to cope since I got home, before i knew i had PTSD. but the coping part was just an incidental perk. I spent many years running at full bore in all directions, doing lots of drugs and drinking lots of liquor. I dont know how to explain it. After living in extreme conditions with enormous responsibility involving so much danger and risk to life, then coming back home to hero welcome and everyone wanting a piece of you, free shots, free beer, free sex, .. it was exhilarating but at the same time it was overdone. I'm not a fucking hero. What we did over there wasn't very nice. Eventually Society moves on and there's nothing to occupy all the exhilaration let's still consuming me. It's 34 years later and I still feel like I just got home and I need to settle down. Meanwhile friends have died family members have died Everything's changed and I'm an old man trying to shake off the war

Oh my God I was working on it a gif that I wanted to post that it was an amalgamation of me then and me now. 6 years of army conditioning versus 30 years of plumbing and heavy construction but it has to be scroll down slowly or it gets very confusing. I thought I might be able to post it here but then I just realized I can't. I'm not finished making it LOL

But yeah, getting back to the CBD conversation. I've been smoking weed since I was 10 years old. Not every day but that's when I started and I'm still a lightweight. When I get stoned everybody knows it. I remember when I realized how beneficial weed was to me being a civilian, I always wish there was a way that I could just get the calming part without the psychoactive part. My answer was to just take smaller bong hits LOL

I've known that cannabis would be beneficial to my son since he was two or three because I know what it does for me and I can recognize what he was going through with his frustration and his anger but his mom was against it, and I still didn't know anything about decarboxylation and a damn sure wasn't going to blow smoke in his. I would imagine it from a third party perspective and how it would look common no matter what the benefits were to my son. He would never be able to tell anybody anyway. He doesn't know how to hold up a conversation. We just parrot back and forth. There's no information in our conversations. Then when he was five, we finally got his G-tube installed because we were losing him. Feeding him was like torturing him and whenever we could get into him, he'd throw half of it back up. It was an all-day job just trying to keep him sustaining life. That G-tube was a game changer. Not only did it give us a port directly into his stomach, bypassing all his efforts to expel it. On top of being able to get full nutrients everyday, if ever he did show signs of throwing up. All I had to do was believe his G-tube and it worse maybe a squirt would come out the end of that. And even when he was sick we could still give him his full load of food. Instead of giving him, I forget what to early amounts were but we'll say 200 mg. Instead of giving him 200 mg every 4 hours. I would give him 50 mg every half hour so he would never feel full.

I know it's the right thing to say about seeing a doctor before giving him any. I never saw a doctor before I started neither did his brother come on neither did 99.9% of cannabis users. He's 24 years old. A recreational Pastime here. The benefits are exponentially more than any possible drawbacks.

I spent last night conducting the dosing experiment. I made a very dense tea out of a quarter gram of wedding cake, divided it in half, drink half, that was 8 hours ago. I did go through a window of mellowness but no psychoactive or lacking in function. So of the half that's left I think I can give him half and it will have the effect that I'm looking for.

I almost aborted the whole thing until I started reading articles on it after I posted this and there were so many other benefits that I overlooked. There's no way I'm not doing this. My only concern is how angry I'm going to be that I didn't do it way back in '05 after we got his G-tube. But everything happens for a reason. Like, I don't know if I would have been able to get the directions of how to make tea back then and I know particles would jam up his button which is the check valve to G tube. It's the part the YouTube connects to in a bayonet sort of fitting

It seems like I made too big of a deal about this, but I needed something constructive for all of us to do

Thanks for your comment. Maybe we can chat about PTSD sometime. As soon as I said that my brain started blinking with an examples of things to talk about. For example, do you notice that your responses to emotions have shifted in a few ways? It happened so much I can't ignore it anymore. Like, every time I cry when I get happy how pissed off I get when I'm sad and how charged up I get when I'm angry. It's like, being happy makes me feel sad. Being sad makes me feel angry, and being angry makes me feel happy. does that make sense to you? Or am I just fucking psycho. One thing PTSD has taught me after having it for so long and not even knowing it, same could happen with many other disorders. I'm sure many people slip into crazy and don't know they're gone
@Jayciedubb sure! Thank you for your service!🫡