>>510357479Yeah I had a similar experience.
My life was a total fucking disaster even though I was a "prodigal child". When I was 24 shit had really taken a bad turn which is when I decided to try LSD. I re-experienced so many memories from throughout my life, was able to understand so many things, how I trapped myself in little mental prisons with my way of thinking. So many things I blamed the world for, were my own fault.
I learned so much about myself and was able to do so much, I started studying neuroscience even though my background was archaeology/history and I had zero schooling in biology and mathematics except for the basics, which I didn't bother with at all in highschool. With LSD while studying I was able to learn shit I never even dreamed of, I could SEE how incredibly complex biological and mathematical phenomena worked, like how simply underlying principles could give shape to something that seems much more complex. It was the same way of thinking I'd had as a child that got me interested in history and archaeology, I'd had it all along. It's a way of thinking that defines autism, and it pretty much comes down to the autistic mind being a "magnifying glass" of all thought and experience: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00224/full
Now I'm specialized in multiple fields in neuroscience and endocrinology, and I work in policymaking and coaching for people with autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc. I try to transfer really fundamental and simple understandings of autism to people with autism, but also employers and policymakers, but also fundamental principled of the human mind in general. I try to have the same effect on people with autism that LSD had on me, without them needing to take LSD.