Refined sugar demon

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I don't know if this has anything to do with AS but I can't eat anything with refined sugar in it.
If I do, after about 48 to 72 hours, I feel HORRIBLy depressed...crying, yelling at my loved ones, unable to make simple decisions and wishing I were dead. It will pass and then I feel warm and loved again. I avoid it by all means. I'm starting to wonder if refined sugar was making my life a living hell for the 30 years that I was eating it. I wasn't crazy, it was my diet. Too bad I can't live some of my life over because of a simple thing like "white sugar". But I'm still an aspie, nothing will change that. But at least I'm a happy aspie not a sugar-induced, insane one. If you think you are like this, stay away from it. Look for it in other foods too like snacks, protein bars, etc.. Just carefully read all labels and lists of ingredients! Luna bars have no refined sugar but others do...believe it or not. Even some brands of nacho chips have added sugar. When I make desserts for family, I use fructose or make regular desserts for them and something else for me. Avoid it by all means and begin when you are young! (If you think sugar is a problem for you). If you're nuts, avoid all sugar and see if there is a change in your feelings! You might be like me.

There's a great book called "Sugar Blues" by William Dufty, which makes this link, and even suggests that the slave trade was originally driven by people's increasingly desperate need for a fix.

I have a similar reaction, and if I let myself slide into eating it wake up each morning more and more panicky, and "blue", until I get my fix that is, which will keep me going for a few hours again.

I have found that the only solution is cutting it out almost totally.

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Suger has weeeird effects on me, too...x_X Like whenever I eat it, I suddenly feel the erge to go REALLY hyper, and, my voice can get really LOUD and stuff, too...then I can get really depressed after it wear's down...then i'm normal again.

My mom never gave me a lot of suger as a kid, though...I actually started to eat it more later on. But it does have strange side effects...

My mom said though it woulda been worse when I was a kid, because she said I almost went through a DAZE once or something after eating at Ben and Jerry's. 0-o;;;

It's maybe possable that maybe suger sencitivites is a autistic trat? My brother is also sencitive to suger, too (but in different ways than me).

if i dont eat refined sugar i get agressive, and sleepy?! and depressed and i self-harm >.< if i do i feel good and hyper but that again im mad at myself for eating _o_ i often end up literally starving for a few days and than eating lots of sugar (i even eat sugarcubes and stuff like that just to have something sweet). i'm hyper and i feel good for a few hours, than i get depressed so i binge (this time on everything, theres usually nothing sugary left anyway, only trash) and i get even more depressed so i cant even look at food but after a few days my body wants suuugar! so i get more and more agressive and i keep getting into fights and than i end up eating everything sugary i have and yay the circle closed.

i wish i was dead or addicted to something normal like drugs or sex. dumb sugar. why do all my problems have something to do with food? >.<