This is 100% my own anecdote but I believe it helps me with my autism.

And I believe that my relative who also has autism and never used cannabis in their life has been impeded by not using it. Just looking at us both now in our 40s, I have a stable career and they are a shut-in on disability.

A lot of things lead us here but at the end of the day I think cannabis gave me a release, a way to let things go, not fret too much.

I remember a meme from early 2000s where cb was represented as a pill that said "fukitol" and honestly that's how it works for me. If it wasn't for cb I would be hyperfocusing on things I can't do anything about.

Personally, I like it because it reduces the volume, both spacially and temporally, of the thoughts in my immediate working memory so that I can more clearly identify the pipeline of activity that I actually want to do (whether it's work or self-care).

I think that this is the reason that people who are later diagnosed with ADHD so often use cannabis to "self-medicate".

But it achieves this effect in a way that is superior to stimulants (don't get me wrong, I also adore coffee) in two clear ways: 1) it does not change the balance of imaginative vs. practical thinking (whereas stimulants tend to shift thinking toward the practical), and 2) it provides a much more comfortable and integrative afterglow, rather than a stimulant crash.

Because memorizing things is far from the most interesting aspect of consciousness.

dfs can go down one branch forever , bounding the max depth allows a more comprehensive traversal of base branches