I have for many years had my reasons, associated with my associating my feelings and doings and experience in general with copper consumption, as noted by type of food stuffs consumed, and/or absence or presence of zinc supplementation in my diet, which blocks the copper from being absorbed in the gut. It has been, my arguing I have this problem, a key argument I believe in diagnosing me with an unrelated psychosis, which I believe constitutes criminal activity, subjecting me to painful and disruptive treatments and insulting hospitalizations, at the hands of these physicians' testimony, judges' inputs, and the omnipresent supportiveness of the quest to medicate me of my parents, Ed and Bernice Richards, which have all traumatized me, and driven me towards madness, complicating my life. That this notion of mine has been patently dismissed has created a key element in this ongoing tragedy.
   My admitting I have some sort of depressive or psychiatric problems has been selectively heeded, as my witness, and false tenets have established that this is not due to Wilson's Disease. Basically, I want a standard to be met, that had not been met whatsoever, of diligence. Rather than presuming what is the current protocol is correct, and more sane, of distinguishing specifically that what I say can't be correct would seem a rather simple undertaking. On the other hand, when tests for Wilson's Disease don't prove that I have the disease according to current standards, I am called delusional, as if it has been proven definitively, while, it is clear I may still have the disease, according to the literature itself, taken in a whole, just that it indicates I can't be diagnosed. So, does it mean that I can not have the disease actively being something that would benefit from treatment, or even solely being recognized as a problem I encounter specifically, not just offering me sympathy because I am someone who is stricken (by schizophrenia, as it were)?
     My point has been I don't know that these criteria were selected correctly, there has been historically an expanding populace recognized to harbor the genetic mutations that cause Wilson's Disease and the associated abnormalities with copper metabolism. There are indications I suffer from this, and the isolation of aspects of my experience along with ignoring that these tests do not prove I can not be suffering from symptoms related to errors in copper metabolism, simply because these tests haven't proven that I do have Wilson's Disease, according to currently accepted rubrics. I have been someone who had higher test scores on SATS (1420 cumulative of two attempts in 2000) and GREs (1380 cumulative on two attempts in 2005), than most people I have known and, today, my life is in shambles. I believe generally I have done better when taking over the counter zinc supplements in the therapeutic dosages, but with this offsetting the test scores, theoretically, that would potentially prove I have this disease definitively before the medical establishment. Now, I have recently had a score that was cast doubt upon in the free copper test of 30.3 ug/DL and have an appointment on April 30th to speak to Dr. Thomas Schiano, who, on the last occasion I saw him, conceded, as my parents fail to realize again and again, I'll add, that the genetic tests don't absolutely rule out my having the disease.