Just a dude in his mid 30s who has been using RCs to self medicate since his doctors cut his alprazolam script without warning after 4 years of prescribed use in my early 20s.
Also have been a guinnea pig for various psychedelic, dissociative, and opioid RCs since I was a teenager.
Meticulous with my usage - I have always weighed out every dose with milligram scales and used volumetric dosing for low-mass compounds like benzos. I also keep usage journals to record how much I use, how well the effects work, and much more so that I can find the most efficient compounds and methods of use as possible.
To me, it is a science, and I'm not interested in recreation for the most part. Everything I use I use for a therapeutic purpose, or in the case of psychedelice and dissociatives out of a sense of exploration, as this truly is one of the final frontiers of exploration available to those of us who cannot become astronauts or deep sea explorers.
My inspirations as to the latter reason are largely Shulgin and McKenna. Brilliant minds whose endeavors made possible the continued explorations of modern day psychonauts. Shout out to Earth and Fire Erowid, as well, without whom I probably would have become yet another drug death statistic.