regarding the oxytocin-autism thing
i wonder (idly with no evidence) whether this might be behind the phenomenon of mild autists being much more able to be friends with the opposite sex
mild attraction -> oxytocin bump -> at last able to socially connect
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don't mind me, just over here quietly re-evaluating my life through this lens
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lol same
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same lol
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tfw you scroll the timeline on the bathroom and get hit with a fundamental ontology upgrade
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the original nose spray post also reminds me in some clear and slightly painful ways about my own suppressed and undiagnosed mild autism
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by now it's kinda impossible to shake off the idea, looking at my brothers and my half brother the only intelligible reality is that we inherit some ADHD from my mom and some autism from my dad, although my parents only have semi-latent variants themselves?
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my half brother was traumatized early by his mentally ill mom who died which was kind of a red herring for his issues because only recently at age ~20 he was diagnosed with autism; I recognize myself in him and maybe if I had that childhood trauma my autism would be disabling
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