Lots of carbs make me fall asleep and kill my motivation. My lunches at work are light and carb-free for that reason.

> what could be considered ADHD/light asperbergers

could be considered, or did you get a diagnosis from a specialist? Self diagnosis is not reliable. If you don't have an official diagnosis you can't be certain you really have ADHD. There may be several differe tfactors relevant for YOU that make keto diet work for you. Same diet can be harmful for similar people who have ADHD.

If you knew anything about how "diagnosis from specialist" works in practice you wouldn't dismiss self dismiss diagnosis so easily. "The specialist" usually spend a few hours at most on the diagnosis (if even that) while people who self diagnose live with the symptoms their whole life.

It would be such an easy world of you could go to a doctor and get answers but it's not the world we live in unless it's common cold (and even then a lot of doctors can't be bothered and prescribe antibiotics just in case).

> Self diagnosis is not reliable

Professional diagnosis is not reliable either. ADHD and autism are often misdiagnosed as one-another, especially in girls.

> If you don't have an official diagnosis you can't be certain you really have ADHD

A lot of the time, the mental health professional making the determination doesn't have specialty in ADHD/Autism. All they're doing is looking at symptoms and making their best guess. Which is exactly what people are doing when they make a self-determination. In many cases, people with high-functioning autism know more about autism than the people who are supposed to know. And it's not like the diagnoses can be validated when we're still figuring out what autism even is.

Professional assessors should know much more about the condition for which they are assessing and its signs than any one person who may or may not have the condition. A professional should also know the other conditions with similar symptoms.

I learned about ADHD for six months until I first consulted an expert about the possibility of my having it. He was able to recognise symptoms in me that I hadn't noticed.

Glad you got a good provider, but that’s anecdata. You kind of acknowledge this with the word choice “should.”

As the old joke goes, “what do you call the person who graduated last in their medical school class?”

One estimate [1] states that over 400,000 people die due to medical errors in the US every year.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23860193/

I have a diagnosis, i just dont trust doctors. please stop gaslighting me

You gaslighted yourself by claiming you don't have ADHD/aspergers anymore. The only explanation is that you either never had it, which is closer to what you said or that you still have it, which is ignoring what you said.

They said it improved many symptoms.

Do you have microbiome dysbiosis? A keto diet might improve things (eg lower LPS production), but long term can diminish microbial diversity. I’m not saying keto is bad at all - it’s just that microbial diversity is an important predictor in GI health and one should keep an eye on that too.

Yeah i mean i know that keto isnt great, but it has changed my life to some degree. When in ketosis, i feel like i have "agency", otherwise i am this foggy headed, sloth

I can relate to this. Could you point me to any resources about keto diets?

https://www.metabolicmind.org is a non profit, with many MDs and PHDs dedicated to researching the link between metabolism and mental health, with a focus on keto diets.

I'm Broad Autism Phenotype (BAP) and prefer low carb because I feel better, but it doesn't change my personality traits or cognitive tendencies one iota.

I have a noticable ability to react quicker in social situations, im more "normal". Otherwise my brain is sluggish and i struggle to maintain conversation/things go over my head