If you continue to define yourself solely by your limitations, then you are entitled to keep them. Tom Cruise is of similar stature.
I gotta ask:
What is your background in any psychedelic or non-pharma substances?
Have you ever taken an undergrad psych statistics course? Neuroscience? Anything of that nature? Just trying to gauge your ability to read the reports. There's a lot of non standard jargon in there that can be misleading to someone reading it without an untrained eye.
Have you completed any of your undergrad and what is current status?
What is your current and former regimen for meds and/or supplements?
Essentially, the papers are academic and lack the adequate safety measures or controls to determine any kind of efficacy. The purpose of them is to establish the idea that psychedelics may hold some promise for further research. The first study was just a group of people average age of 25 who claimed to have mental disorders and history of psychedelic use to fill out a questionnaire that claimed that psychedelics helped them, but there is no actual treatment, no therapeutic dose administered, no monitoring, no possible mention of contraindications, no dosing recommendations, no protocol and yes, the devil or cure can often be found in the dosing and administration and how it's done, hence my former question of your psychedelic and other substance use experience.
I didn't see if it mentioned if the questionnaire was online or in a clinical setting, or if there was a follow up and yes, it matters if they could have potentially been at home under the influence or in the study site or if they still felt that way a few months or years later. The substances in descending order was 1) Cannabis, 2) Alcohol, and then 3) LSD. The first can have therapeutic value, the second has no place in any kind of treatment for mental illness whatsoever, yet these participants, at the time and scenario they were filling out the questionnaire all claimed that being drunk helped them more than standard treatments, and the third, LSD can make your current mental illnesses a while lot worse as well as give you a whole host of new ones, I imagine, especially with prolonged dosing.
The second study is more of a report done on cortical neurons in a petri dish or test tube in a lab. I didn't see if it was human neurons or those obtained from rat brains. But testing done on cortical neurons. Not on actual people. No actual treatment protocol. It's academic and not relevant to you. There is no mention of safety protocols or dosing as well and yes, they do need mentioning. If you've ever experimented or had friends who experimented with psychedelics, you would know that there are serious side effects and safety issues. Plenty of adverse effects and fatalities with LSD even aside from the neurochemical ones. People dying and hurting themselves because of their altered perceptions and unable to inadequately respond. Dying of hypothermia, falling, dangerous activities and accidents without realizing, or simply frying their neurons for a long time and being unable to function or return to prior levels or to any baseline before chronic use. They used to say that if you took LSD more than a handful of times, that you could be declared legally insane. I don't think there's much truth in that, but it does and can screw with and screw up your brain. In an Intro Psych class many years ago, the prof mentioned that if you did have the schizophrenia gene and it was recessive or not showing symptoms, it could switch on with multiple uses of LSD and could not be switched off again.
I understand that there has been some recent success with ketamine with depression, but that is not your only issue. I know there are relevant controlled and clinical studies done with people at safe dosages with ketamine but I'd proceed with caution, especially in regard to your Aspergers symptoms. I have heard of micro-dosing LSD for nootropic benefits. Admittedly I have not researched this much, but similarly, I don't think its applicable to someone with your conditions because of the potential hazards and interactions. Bad trips are real. Yes, things can get worse. A whole lot worse with potentially irreversible results if not properly done. Most of the healing that occurs with LSD, if any, I would imagine is in the psychotherapeutic value, as in through repressed emotions and healing old hurts, etc but those are with single doses, not continued dosing. It wouldn't change your Aspergers, ADHD, SAD, etc, at least not to my knowledge. Those are things you need to try to correct and manage with a margin of safety through pharmaceutical support and behavioral changes.
Get yourself into college and start studying the social sciences and take the intro courses. You can change your mind later and/or refine your path as you go along. I would highly caution against trying some highly experimental protocol with LSD in your scenario. At the very least, know what you're doing with a potential back up for possible adverse effects or how it effects Aspergers and other mental illnesses. Have a reference point that's an actual procedure done on people and not on a test tube, with reports conducted in a clinical setting, instead of just a bunch of psychedelic drug users with co-morbid mental illnesses filling out a form that getting drunk or tripping helped them, and with no other data available, and no follow up. Whatever level of cognition you have now, you should be very protective about to preserve, and of course, enhance. 
Edited by cat-nips, 29 August 2018 - 03:59 PM.
