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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

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

komm, süssy tod@punished3liza• almost 4 years ago

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

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

look at this fucking shit. just this whole paragraph about him having sex with his wife https://t.co/zfPAuBR4AW https://t.co/dHXPrhHJQr

komm, süssy tod@punished3liza• almost 4 years ago

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

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

"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

komm, süssy tod@punished3liza• almost 4 years ago

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

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

"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

komm, süssy tod@punished3liza• almost 4 years ago

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

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

"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

komm, süssy tod@punished3liza• almost 4 years ago

also extremely therapeutically relevant is that he describes serious improvements in his PTSD and rape trauma symptoms https://t.co/Dx0XFJgtOD

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

"It's almost as if my brain is reprogramming itself to give more association in memory to these experiences while on oxytocin and less association to those old traumatic experiences."

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˚♡⋆mimi ˚♡⋆｡☆∴@mimi10v3• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan Seriously- what is this "easy mode" I've been missing? (otoh, what becomes of our techie world when the geeks are busy being normal?)

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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan why be fucked up for days when you can buy some and independently verify? #science https://t.co/mwBA0o7SJH

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @natural_hazard

@natural_hazard implying that i am *not* already trying to do this lmao

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Richard D. Bartlett@RichDecibels• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @natural_hazard

@natural_hazard @QiaochuYuan on it

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𐫱 arcove 𐫱@dschorno• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan i listened to a podcast where they did this using transcranial magnetic stimulation, i think it was this one: https://t.co/hiKOe87LW9

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @dschorno

@dschorno waaaaack

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan something about this makes me go: if you get this artificially, it will not stick

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@QiaochuYuan on the other hand, it totally might, who knows also just a glimpse is enough to permanently recalibrate your sense of how things can be and how quickly

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Jess@frideswyth• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth @QiaochuYuan Seems like the temporary intervention will also give improved relief when not on the drug - like removing all those muscle cramps will be so good for the guy, even afterwards, better starting position

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @frideswyth

@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)

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Elena Lake 🌿@relic_radiation• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@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

Elena Lake 🌿@relic_radiation• about 4 years ago

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 💜

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QC@QiaochuYuan• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @relic_radiation

@relic_radiation it do be like that sometimes 😔

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Johnson (Seattle Oct-Nov, Taiwan Dec-)@justavagrant_• over 2 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan tpot cuddle parties to heal autism and cptsd when

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Johnson (Seattle Oct-Nov, Taiwan Dec-)@justavagrant_• over 2 years ago

Replying to @justavagrant_

@QiaochuYuan vibecamp event incoming

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 2 years ago

Replying to @justavagrant_

@justavagrant_ legit like people make fun of the rationalists for cuddle parties but i think it was highly functional self-medication on their part basically

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