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guys can we talk about this completely insane thread where oxytocin nasal spray apparently makes an autistic guy not autistic temporarily? i'm gonna be fucked up about this for days https://t.co/dZV8r1i8MN
look at this fucking shit. just this whole paragraph about him having sex with his wife https://t.co/zfPAuBR4AW https://t.co/dHXPrhHJQr
"I noticed my son's aspergers bigly today. I keep looking at him when I talk to him and he's like "what" and I'm like "what what" and it's really awkward. I can see what NTs see when they talk to us." the oxytocin *opens up a new way of seeing* https://t.co/pIMiEmbYdz
"I saw some kind of social hierarchy in some men when they were talking together. Like one would have neutral body language and the other would have forward body language." https://t.co/cXgogAJ0cJ
"I also think this hormone may be impacting my PTSD because now I don't get grossed out when my wife does certain things that my rapist did." https://t.co/IxZRdbevST
@QiaochuYuan why be fucked up for days when you can buy some and independently verify? #science https://t.co/mwBA0o7SJH
@QiaochuYuan i listened to a podcast where they did this using transcranial magnetic stimulation, i think it was this one: https://t.co/hiKOe87LW9
@ssica3003 @AskYatharth he isn’t just taking the oxytocin, he’s also having all these new bonding experiences with his family and stuff, that’ll still be there even if he tapers the oxytocin off (which i think would make sense to do but who knows)
@QiaochuYuan hot damn, more reasons for everyone to get massages! massages are ++++ for oxytocin. I believe most everyone in the US is inhumanely touch-starved https://t.co/ttOCiAUZs6
5. Two years ago, I experienced romance and sex as the *only viable strategies* for meeting my touch needs. So I felt pressure to either get on those, or agonizingly wither from touch starvation. Going to massage school has 200% dissolved that bind, and I am so, so grateful 💜