For those that believe ASD is Only hard wired/genetic

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As ive been sharing here for 5 years or so, I learned that my textbook AS symptoms were caused by intestinal dysbiosis and how to treat it via diet & probiotics. I’ve been doing so for 5 or so years and living a second life for it. What happened is I figured out how to utilize medicine to treat AS and it’s enabled me to live, play, and work like never before in my life. I’m healthier and wealthier for it, as well as much more socially connected. I’m around large groups of people all the time and have attended wild parties with up to 900 people at them. This is because what I have learned and done does in fact treat and control my AS symptoms. It’s science & medicine; not a placebo or wishful thinking. There have been several articles published since about the intestinal root cause of ASD and probiotic therapy as medicine. People here, in general, do not believe me and choose to call me names because of it. But it doesn’t change the truth or facts of what I’ve learned and done one bit, and so I persist because I know this will eventually help many people experience relief of their symptoms and live a better life.

Goldfish is completely self-diagnosed so we only have his subjective self-appraisal on what his issues were before or after. And due to the fact that numerous people keep trying and failing to get him to understand that he has a significant problem in how he comes across to others and how he presents himself, his ability at self-appraisal seems highly questionable. The whole thing seems that his entire experience could likely be mainly psychological rather than neurological.

I basically do follow goldfish protocols (not all of them) and have since 2009, yet I'm still autistic and my health is hilarious, although I do feel good most of the time.
So what am I doing wrong?

Depends on what you’re doing differently or not doing that I am. Care to share?

Based on what I've seen, the protocols have stronger evidence of improving psychological disorders than they do of improving neurological disorders. My belief is that goldfish's experience is more of a psychological nature. He should look into psychological disorders that have symptoms similar to aspergers and how what his doing can affect those psychological disorders. Even highly experienced credentialed experts misdiagnose one thing for another. Which is why it's always highly recommended to get a second opinion.

What, share my failures?
That would max this thread out.
Like I said, this is over almost 10 years, and it had nothing to do with treating autism.
But you would think autism symptoms would have improved instead of having the biggest autistic burnout of my life in the middle of it.

YMMV. we each have to mix and match workarounds that have worked for other people, to our own unique circumstance. just giving up refined carbs + vigorous physical exercise [aerobic and anaerobic] has worked miracles for me. Strattera was good while it lasted, prolly the gentlest of all the frontal lobe stimulants. some of what the OP has mentioned reminds me of what dr. Daniel Amen MD has also said.

^ You definitely feel better on real food.
Like I said, I mostly feel great (doctors keep scratching their heads)
But I still have meltdowns regularly, always have.

^^^ the secret, at least in my case [YMMV] to meltdowns, is 1] be a hermit, 2] STAY a hermit, and 3]as a result of #1 and #2, one eventually no longer gives much of a shite about anything. I go into town once per week on my main grocery-getting errand mission, and any other mission [paying bills and such] is a A->B<-A thing with no side trips, planned in advance including possible contingencies. if I get called in to jury duty next week, I have that planned out, I bring what I need with me in my murse, I have my spiel ready to get myself dismissed from consideration by both sides.

^ I practically am a hermit now, except for hospital/clinic visits, shopping, the beach and trips to the hardware store.
It's mainly the shopping that overwhelms because the food I'm eating is so 'specialised' it needs to be garnered from several different sources, and not all of them deliver.
So that's kind of a drawback to eating healthy.

^^can you point to a common denominator behind meltdowns?

Inability to filter anything out.
Its largely a sensory thing.

I've learned to always carry shades, hat and something to block my ears, and when I see or hear something nasty I get away first thing. if I can't get away I look away and block my ears. as I tend to have brittle blood sugar control, I bring along something sweet to pop just in case my blood sugars plummet, this will tide me over long enough to get home.

^ yep, do all that.
Wear tints and my hat, even indoors.
Can't really block my ears because I need my hearing aids to hear.
Take a few snacks too, usually some nuts or an apple.
Breathwork has helped in some cases, but not all.
Funny thing is, I actually enjoy going out.
But there comes a point when the brain decides it's had enough stimulation for one day and throws a wobbly.

A lot of times when I'm out between dark shades and noise cancelling earphones i might as well be helen keller. One more reason i need an escort.

It's not that I hear or see anything nasty, it's more like everything's too shiny, too bright, too cluttered, too echoey, too smelly and the people moving in all random directions do my head in.