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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
"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." 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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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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