If autism--schizophrenia is a brain spectrum, and psychedelics push your brain in the schizophrenia direction, does that mean autists have a "better" or more normalizing effects from taking them?
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I don't have any good data sets. Anecdotally it seems like autistic people report reduced effects from LSD, at least outwardly. I am likely closer to the 'autism' side of the spectrum and handled serious regular use of LSD without going insane. I always wonder if it's related.
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Autism and schizophrenia are not opposite poles of a spectrum, they have highly compatible symptom profiles and frequently co-occur
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Huh. Google seems to support this. I was getting my loose 'autism-schizophrenia' thing from my memory of slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/boo which now i'm wondering if i misunderstood
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I the trust people around me. Several people who've known me before and after psychedelics have reported it looks like I've improved a lot.
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Cool subject actually. YouTube PsychedSubstance has a video where his autistic friend trips 700mg on camera and he's straight chillin on that dose. Makes me wonder what advantages an autistic brain has over a "normal" brain. I'm slightly envious tbh
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yea, i fed a significant dose to an autistic friend of mine and they had a similar reaction.
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Where did you even think the autism and schizophrenia were on some sort of continuum?
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Start here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P The references in this article will help. Also Canada did studies using psychedelics in the 60's and 70's, the methods used were described as torture. They damaged a lot of healthy children. But interesting outcomes for others
