"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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"I just caught it by accident but it seems like you could make the trauma lessened by repeating the trigger while on oxytocin but have the trigger lead to a positive outcome instead of a bad one."
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"I had thought of something sad and my face automatically went into sad expressions and my eyes started going into tear mode. I also was unable to stop looking at my wife's face for like an hour during our daily sexdown."
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he starts spontaneously and completely involuntarily experiencing normal facial expressions. these are all things that many "high functioning" autistics have to overcome by sheer force of will. i had to learn through practice and study how to make 'natural' facial expressions
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let me say something about why i find this so exciting: the fact that a single person was able to have this experience, even if it doesn't end up replicating easily, shows that *the neural circuitry for all this stuff is not missing*
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @hyperdiscogirl and @sunofdopamine
even if oxytocin or w/e doesn't pan out as a single-use miracle i could imagine it working well in combination with other things like MDMA and good therapy. it's already fascinating to me to know that it could work at all; that means there's no *missing neural circuitry*
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and that whatever is going on it's more like some kind of low-level global setting gets tuned weirdly. since that setting is apparently affected by oxytocin, maybe it's something like "degree to which other people and self seem like friendly humans" but who knows
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also this little snippet from the wikipedia article makes me very curious to know whether oxytocin can reduce gender dysphoria 👀
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"[I]n males classified as having “insecure” attachments, oxytocin increased the level of attachment security in the majority of participants."
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oh fuck now I'm gonna look around online for it
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dying that it just says SCIENCE on the label, hell yeah
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snorting a bottle of pure liquid science, for the d a t a
wait hang on i got it
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