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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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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back to the reddit guy. he talks about getting tremors from memories of having sex with his wife! if someone had taught him how to do somatic experiencing at this exact moment he might've had a really good time shaking
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by day 8 he's had so much sex with his wife that he's feeling "drained, sexually" although by day 9 "wife seems kinda disappointed when [the sex is] over" lmao i'm so happy for them
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day 9 "It's like i could speak NTese" - he's not only accessing his feelings but effortlessly describing them to other people in a way they can understand. also empathy: "can see how the other people is feeling and anticipate their feelings"
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day 10 "a very slow muscle relaxation event" - he's describing undoing muscle armoring from C-PTSD!!! "severe muscle knots... all over the region in my neck and shoulders and shoulder-blades"
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day 11 "gaining new abilities with regard to sensing touch in my peripheral limbs," "flexibility is off the charts and I am doing stuff that would make yoga people impressed, but it's not yoga; I'm just trying to move to a position that relieves the knots"
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i've been throwing this link around in the replies but just to have it in the main thread: here's a place where you can buy a $50 oxytocin nasal spray, i have already bought one for a friend, if you try it PLEASE REPORT BACK
science.bio/product-tag/ox
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like seriously if you try oxytocin i wanna hear about it, positive or negative results or whatever, DM me, i'll be checking my DM requests
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there is apparently also a whole medical literature about oxytocin therapy for autism already that i am probably not qualified to deep dive into. found a random site that claims "research shows mixed results"
raisingchildren.net.au/autism/therapi
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(but personally i am much more interested in oxytocin for C-PTSD than for autism as such, and there's also apparently a whole literature about oxytocin and PTSD)
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one negative report about the science.bio spray via DMs so far :/ unclear if it was fake or went bad or there were other things going on. i’m gonna do a follow-up thread where i wildly speculate sometime today
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hmm nuts, from the SSC subreddit. i do have a wild speculation about why RCTs might not be a good idea here specifically
reddit.com/r/slatestarcod
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speculative followup
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so now that i've had some time to calm down a bit let me do a slightly more sober thread where i speculate about what might have been going on with oxytocin guy and what kind of sense self-experimentation with oxytocin might or might not make twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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suggestion in the DMs to experiment with high-dose N-acetyl cysteine or more speculatively acetyl-L-carnitine
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It sounds to me like we're confounding being autistic with avoidance/lower sensitivity to social stimulation, which is only part of the spectrum. Some others, inversely, are more of the social-seeking variety. My hypothesis is that's what oxytocin is modulating here. ...
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However, I'd venture to say that almost all autistics suffer from some amount of social trauma, and that cPTSD might be relevant for a good part of them. ...
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What if we mix this with
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cool speculation here astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-should-
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