sometimes when i feel good enough around a group of people something changes about my vision and everyone’s faces look softer and more detailed. this is exactly what happened when i took oxytocin so now i know that means oxytocin was produced
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this happened to me once at an authentic relating event in texas in 2018 or so and i was shocked. the before / after difference was so stark. it seemed like before i had been too nervous / anxious to really settle into the group. and it was sobering to notice that was my default
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still not done wilding out about reddit autistic oxytocin guy btw. i’ve been haphazardly collecting oxytocin stories, maybe 10ish so far, and 1 out of 10 was a big transformative experience like this one. could be worse!
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guys can we talk about this completely insane thread where oxytocin nasal spray apparently makes an autistic guy not autistic temporarily? i'm gonna be fucked up about this for days twitter.com/punished3liza/…
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if oxytocin is related to the social deficits of autism i wonder if this partly explains rationalist cuddle puddle culture - like the oxytocin generated by the cuddling partly counteracts what otherwise amounts to an oxytocin deficit? mysteries
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I think I find the same person more/less physically attractive moment to moment as my feelings about them fluctuate, as in I literally see different facial features
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I see this, depending on my mood, looking at my own face in the mirror.
Sometimes I actually like what I see (good mood), sometimes I really, really, really don’t (bad mood). My face actually looks different, it doesn’t feel like just my opinion changing.
Weird.
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Why would it be fake? Oxytocin is ridiculously cheap.
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Huh. When I took oxytocin (which was prescribed me for a physical condition), it had basically no psychological or cognitive effects for me, only physical ones...
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were you around other people? supposedly what oxytocin controls is “social salience”
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