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Originally Posted by lynn P.
How do they manufacture the Oxytocin? Are they going to start this as a treatment? Do autistic people fail to produce their own oxytocin or do they need more?
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From what I could gather from the article after a few reads, it seems we produce less and also have mutations to the oxytocin receptors so what oxytocin we do produce isn't getting to where it's most needed at high enough levels.
They didn't say whether or not it was going to be used as a treatment, though if it's providing such good results you never know it may end up as such.
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
I really enjoyed reading this article. The neuroscience is fascinating. Thanks.
Now I can visualize what is going on in my head, when I cannot filter out stimuli.
The paragraph on reading emotions off someone's face was very accurate. I see faces in pieces and have trouble putting the movements of each piece together to read the emotion a person is expressing.
P.S. I saw the A's before the letter W.
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Indeed, it was an interesting read. I definitely agree with viewing faces as 'pieces'. I didn't actually truly realise until now that people not on the spectrum view them as a whole haha. That does explain a lot.
The part where they mentioned the world seeming overwhelming was very true, when I do go out and about (which is rarely these days) I notice everything around me. Little bits of dirt on a pavement that weren't there the last time I walked that path, or the change to a sign in a shop window, the people around the streets and what they are doing. My brain then starts running marathons processing all of this and thinking of reasoning behind why there have been changes, and it stops focusing on what I'm actually doing. I don't like going out without someone with me any more because there have been times where I've almost walked in front of cars on the road because I was too busy wondering why that stain on the pavement wasn't there last week and now it's just there and nobody seems to want to clean it up.
(I hope I'm not the only one who does this, haha.)
Yet if you put me in a room with a depressed person, I'd probably walk out of the room thinking the person was totally fine but the carpet could do with a hoover haha.