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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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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As someone who identifies with both significant social trauma and high social seeking/sensitivity/stimulation, shit gets weird.
I read your screenshots thinking "huh. looks like oxytocin is the thing that i have." which would explain my social propensity but no less autistic.
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Anecdotally, I've been experimenting with linking neurotransmitters with brain sensations for a good two years now, I feel like I've got a pretty good handle on dopamine, norepinephrine and oxytocin, I'm still not 100% sure on what serotonin feels like though. ...
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I feel like for me it mediates satisfaction, serenity, and social currency/confidence, but it's been a bad two years for those.
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(And now that I've gone and taken a risk by replying a small essay on a tweet, I might just have made a 5HT bet, now waiting for either the inevitable crash when it finds no traction or high rush when it does get some 😅 ..."ayyy lmao")
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huh yeah thanks for sharing! i personally don’t think i even know what “autism but minus the trauma” is at all, what is it in your view?
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-> I don't think I know either 😬
dark humour aside, I think the statement "(almost) all autistics have trauma" is analogous to "all autistics have disability" (under the social model) in that it is almost bound to happen. ...
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being significantly neurologically different from your social environment means that unless you get very very lucky, conflicts are bound to happen, and the dominant neurotype/group will either have you mask those traits to assimilate, or reject you. hence, loss, trauma.
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