Oxytocin and autism has been studied for some time, and the use of nasal oxytocin as treatment for autism has also been studied. Better if we looked at the literature than get excited by a random reddit post reposted on twitter.
This sounds super exciting. I can’t help but wonder though... The language sounds weird. Maybe that’s because the person writing has Asperger’s, but it almost sounds like how a NT person would think someone with Asperger’s would talk. We probably need to move into the mode of requiring extraordinary evidence before we get to excited.
One thought that might explain mixed study results, aren’t there like half a dozen kinds of autism? I would imagine that if the study failed to account for the difference the results could be inconsistent.
It seems like a promising area of research though.
What I mean is: do you believe this is a fictional account, written by an NT, asserting an altered personal experience which conforms to NT received value structures?
or,
that this Redditor's account may be honest in the sense of describing their own self experience, but, compromised in the sense that it adopts NT language and value structures?
Hung out with a guy at BM for a week who swore by it.
His baseline was different than the Redditor presents as theirs, but he had comparable if scaled down versions of the same claims and experience.
He had brought cases of his go-to spray and was giving them out to anyone interested for self experimentation. AFAIK modulo source control there is not much risk from these nasal sprays.
Tried some myself. Would not claim to be able to differentiate any affective difference from placebo and set/setting effects. Which at BM are considerable. But at the time I thought I might have gotten a peasant if mild social-anxiety and general equanimity bump.
e.g. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47&q=oxy...