Oxytocin nasal spray apparently makes an autistic guy not autistic
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e.g. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47&q=oxy...
One thought that might explain mixed study results, aren’t there like half a dozen kinds of autism? I would imagine that if the study failed to account for the difference the results could be inconsistent.
It seems like a promising area of research though.
What I mean is: do you believe this is a fictional account, written by an NT, asserting an altered personal experience which conforms to NT received value structures?
or,
that this Redditor's account may be honest in the sense of describing their own self experience, but, compromised in the sense that it adopts NT language and value structures?
> Like someone fantasising about what being NT would be like (maybe based on a much milder experience).
Not so sure about spraying psychoactive chemicals up my brain without more trip reports though…
Edit: apparently a study found it ineffective https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/intranasal-oxytocin-ineffe...
His baseline was different than the Redditor presents as theirs, but he had comparable if scaled down versions of the same claims and experience.
He had brought cases of his go-to spray and was giving them out to anyone interested for self experimentation. AFAIK modulo source control there is not much risk from these nasal sprays.
Tried some myself. Would not claim to be able to differentiate any affective difference from placebo and set/setting effects. Which at BM are considerable. But at the time I thought I might have gotten a peasant if mild social-anxiety and general equanimity bump.