attackfish

I have to eat all organic. I have had to since birth (well, until I was weened anyway). Actually, I didn't eat organic until I was nine, nor was i on any kind of treatment. Fortunately (or unfortunately, it might have clued Mom and Dad into what was going on) I hadn't developed asthma or anaphylaxis yet, so this period didn't kill me. It just left my growth stunted and gave me brain damage because of the number of times I had seizures, three and four times a day. And because I have the sort of seizure that makes me run around acting like a maniac (exaggerated fight or flight response coupled with an inability to respond to verbal cues or have any regard for my own or others' safety)no one knew they were seizures until I was nine either.

As a child, I was alternately diagnosed with depression (and I was obviously acting out because of it) paranoid schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, ADD, (which I have in a mild form, but the medication sends me straight into these seizures) autism (that was a doctor's favorite) and deeply spoiled, in other words, my strange behavior was my parents' fault. Those diagnoses all ignored the fact that I slept until I was seven months old (I mean solid. I woke up to eat and fell asleep still sucking.) I didn't talk until I was two, I have violent heart arrhythmia during these seizures, if I'm having a reaction at night and it doesn't go into a full seizure, I have violent nightmares, I had virtually no hand eye coordination, I was always sick, and I had the worst touchy stomach and hay fever of anyone my parents had ever met.