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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there's a saying "if you've met one autistic person, then you've met one autistic person"
it's entirely reasonable to assume it's a banner condition of otherwise inseprable things, of which oxytocin offers fantastic advantages to one