Oxytocin nasal spray apparently makes an autistic guy not autistic

Post by kadoban » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 7:56 PM UTC

kylebenzle wrote: post #4

kadoban wrote: post #2

Very interesting, but it's also a twitter summary of a random reddit post, so I'm thinking this is unlikely to be true.

Read the post, not the Tweet lol.

Post by flyingfences » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 8:19 PM UTC

JPLeRouzic wrote: post #9

aaroninsf wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hung out with a guy at BM for a week who swore by it. 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 clai…

I am not a native, please what is BM?

Post by fknorangesite » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 9:01 PM UTC

aaroninsf wrote: post #8

StrictDabbler wrote: post #6

The Twitter commenter who described this as "neurotypicality fan-fiction" pretty much nailed it.

Expand on this? 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?

Post by netizen-936824 » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 10:27 PM UTC

LazyMans wrote: post #16

The effects described are pretty much precisely what MDMA feels like. Weird.