n=1, in high school I was smoking a lot of weed, and started having what I discovered years later are called "ideas of reference," where you start getting the s

n=1, in high school I was smoking a lot of weed, and started having what I discovered years later are called "ideas of reference," where you start getting the sense that the people around you are talking about you, but secretly. At face value, there's nothing you can point to as evidence of this, because it all appears to be normal conversation, but there's a secret meaning that only you can hear. You're basically projecting your unconscious onto random stimuli, like the conversations of bystanders. If you start believing that this is reality, then it becomes "delusions of reference." I later learned this can be related to low folate or B12, and suspect that was also a cause. Interestingly enough, I'm also fairly confident I'm autistic.