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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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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You should tag him. He sometimes responds to stuff. It's @ slatestarcodex. I saw him reply just a couple weeks ago to someone talking about his face mask post.
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ty for the rec, I don't want to bother him about something i could look into first more myself tho.
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No problem. And I totally understand. Just wanted to be sure you knew he hung around on Twitter occasionally. 🙂
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