Oxitocin ENDS asperger life!

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I am thinking of trying this for a month or so. There is no better way to know what it actually does than to use it. If I sense a change in my self, good bye stupid wonder pill, if not, good bye stupid wonder pill. I personally wouldn't like using some stupid drug, so other people would feel better around me. I will not take a pill to indulge in the ignorance around me. If you don't like me for who I am, then I don't want you around me. People call this an "asocial personality trait" but what do psychologists know other than what they have been taught. It's still a psudoscience that only gains it's value from other sciences. such as biology and statistics and marketing. Everything else is based on commonly accepted delusions on how things should be.

A disorder is a difference and a cure is an attempt to make the disordered individual the same. Whether or not it's harmful is not a valid reason for curing someone. They don't care if it's harmful. They just don't want you to be different.

(sorry about the rant. It's almost 11 and I am sick to the point where I am almost seeing things [hyperbole])

I wouldn't use it. But if someone is on the lower-functioning end of the spectrum and they would like to try it, why not? Medications of any kind are about the benefits outweighing the potential side-effects.

So far as i know, Oxytocin is the "trust"/"bonding" hormone, there is concern about it being abused by con artists because studies showed people exposed to a high level of external Oxytocin (in a room) we're more easily "conned" (by an actor employed by the team doing the research), personally i think its abit of a "fake" this kind of reaction wont "cure" or remove Aspergers traits, it will simply act as a sort of compensator or in some cases an over compensator, and it can be psychologically highly addictive because of the times its naturally secreted, during climax and breastfeeding.

As for "killing" Aspie tendencies, the science simply doesn't support it doing so, lasting permanent neurological changes are unlikely at least from the hormone itself, but it is certainly worrying, aren't some of us socially niave/trusting enough as it is?

sounds like a badly thought-out placebo treatment tbh, I doubt its success rate and i severely doubt it wont be abused or lead to problems.

You know they have had programs with student mentors for high school students with Asperger's Syndrome to help them fit in better and it is very successful. Yet nobody is making accusations of "Asperger Genocide" or whatever against proponents of mentoring so why should it be any different with hormone therapy if it is successful?