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here's a fascinating document i discovered by accident yesterday. it's a case report written by an autistic redditor, with all the expected writing mannerisms such status imparts, of what happened after he was given an oxytocin nasal spray prescription. https://t.co/Xx08McDSIL
he describes subjective effects like wanting to stop posting and go stare at his wife, speaking at normal volume, & suddenly making vocalizations during sex for the first time, which he assumed was something neurotypicals had just seen in porn and imitated https://t.co/VOTVYJfIBZ
another thing he describes is being able to look at his son, who is also autistic, and suddenly perceive how normal people have been perceiving himself his entire life. https://t.co/rGalB4GsrK
there's no reason for anyone to fake this kind of post and the author is an authentic and active reddit account so i believe it is real. the descriptions of a jekyll-and-hyde type switch from normal family man to cringing autist at the end of the 3-4 hour dose window is amazing https://t.co/IRwqiyh9xH
a fun fact about oxytocin is that if you are normal it apparently has zero effects on you (unless used as a labor inducer in pregnant women, in which case it doesnt cross the blood-brain barrier). this is a love drug normal people cant take lmao https://t.co/svZebzU2U9
also extremely therapeutically relevant is that he describes serious improvements in his PTSD and rape trauma symptoms https://t.co/Dx0XFJgtOD
he starts spontaneously and completely involuntarily experiencing normal facial expressions. these are all things that many "high functioning" autistics have to overcome by sheer force of will. i had to learn through practice and study how to make 'natural' facial expressions https://t.co/BwbYBpd1G0
many points of extreme interest in this document which is why i've gone to such lengths to archive it, but one of the things that is really getting me is the evidence that apparently, all these normal human behaviors are actually innate, & mediated by one endogenous drug
i mean obviously, plenty of neurotypical people also fake expressions and affects and emotions etc, i'm not so deluded that i think otherwise. but the idea that almost everyone mostly just "knows what to do" is apparently not particualr far fetched
while on his oxytocin dose he is able to tell "white lies" https://t.co/ebc4Sjdzcr
oxytocin is tricky because it absolutely does not cross the BBB. you have to administer it in a nasal spray to get it into your brain, orally or intravenously taking it won't do anything except make your uterus cramp. the use of oxytocin for autism is in its infancy
administering oxytocin to normal people appears to make them more racist! this is hypothetized to be related to ingroup empathy and defense behavior https://t.co/0KyNuGOtLZ
oxytocin is possibly involved in autistic food pickiness https://t.co/BeUWDNuNZb
for everyone asking "where do i buy this", the answer is some of the grey market drug sellers have it (like https://t.co/gNbvisPoB2). i havent tried it yet and have no idea if it's effective or trustworthy, this is truly a weird new drug frontier and there just isnt much data yet
it's also risky to buy something psychoactive and squirt it up your nose. as far as i can tell the worst case scenario is "becomes more racist for 3 hours" and i dont think oxytocin, as a drug, is particularl dangerous, but it is semi-expensive
dog oxytocin will definitely be formulated for injection in order to trigger labor and will be formulated with possibly nose-irritating ingredients and an unknown mg/ml strength but maybe some brave soul on erowid or something has already tried it out https://t.co/OMSEiNevLp
@punished3liza reading this thread and now like "can the dog stuff be any different?" https://t.co/63Wu6DFSQo
@punished3liza @Aella_Girl noticed that apparently Walmart lists pure oxytocin (so it seems) for sale (fulfilled by them, at least): https://t.co/pbtAk3vdpF I also found it extremely on-point that it mentions "WARNING - California Proposition 65" for this product, lol