Not necessarily specific to the aforementioned items, but there were substances that I did in my relative youth about which I have wondered whether I might have sustained some damage in the noggin, but as I believe it would be difficult to ascertain for sure even with a battery of tests, I try not to beat myself up about it. Who can know for sure? None of are quite the junebugs we were as children... Maybe I'm exactly the person I'd be without those experiences. I still manage to annoy a ton of people, so I haven't completely lost my touch. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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