Oxitocin ENDS asperger life!

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Well . . .it is, indeed, a highly potent chemical that alters basic brain function. But I'm willing to listen to the idea that it could make basic functionality easier.

Although my understanding of the chemical is that, although naturally produced by the brain during natural function, it is also a highly addictive chemical, and it's failure to manifest is actually the origin beghind the mythological "seven-year itch."

Oxitocin ENDS asperger life? Oxitocin MURDERS!

When the politicians hear of this they will put it in the water.

Oxytocin is not Oxycodone nor an addictive drug.
I first heard about Oxytocin in 1990, and I suppose it is probably just coming off
patent or something now, if it has not been available all this time, and everything
I know about it is positive. Ever since I first heard about it I thought it would enable,
not force, me to be almost as social as my best NT friend, and I say almost because
he is like an NT Superman who almost has to pretend to be Clark Kent to avoid too
much social attention (happily married for 15 years after 5 years of dating I think
100 is certainly no gross over estimate of women he dated;
we were roommates then). I have not had the opportunity to try Oxytocin.
My time living with him has taught me more than I would have otherwise have
the opportunity to learn of social skills but even with that much exposure,
and even talking to his dates, did not lead to a single date for me
via himself or his girlfriends or the other "opportunities".
I believe that the main effect of Oxytocin (again based on available information)
is nothing more than enabling the learning of social skills,
especially nonverbal communication,
or disabling the 'weird vibe' that makes everything awkward for Aspies.

In other words, This is what I think of Oxytocin:
If PHEROMONES are "Lust" Hormones,
then OXYTOCIN is simply a "Like" Hormone.

I don't think there is any hint of an evil plot to take away Aspie powers
and replace them with any perceived-as-negative NT attributes involved
with Oxytocin. I think it only "cures" 'weird vibe'.

And by Weird Vibe, I mean how people for no obvious reason might
often say "iiiiiewww!" at the very idea of liking an Aspie as if we are uglier
than an "elephant man" with Leprosy.

No. I'm refering to the post-dopamine chemical released by the body in a long-term relationship, and a major factor in the depression caused by the breaking of aforementioned long-term relationships, which causes a chemical withdrawal in brain chemistry.

Ha ha, I thought is meant that the treatment killed someone. Kind of like, eventually EVERYONE quits smoking. Oh dear, hi-larious.
I can't see that this would help me personally, but if it helps others huzzah!

Well that's a stupid title. Is someone just dead set against the idea of a cure no matter how helpful and harmless it could turn out to be?

This could be good news, but the drug needs more testing.

If it get released for therapeutic use I wonder if we'll see NT's use it recreationaly (something like a mild version of E) . . .

The drug/hormone sounds nice enough. The better social skills would be great on certain moments.

But I wonder if there would be certain side effects. Now I have a creative way of thinking with quantum leaps etc. and I am intelligent enough. Would those capacities diminish when I would use oxytocin? Then the price could be too high.

It ENDS asperger life because it helps to end being aspie

yes

The cited "study" had a total of 13 subjects, and used photographs rather than actual live human faces.

Am I the only one that sees this as more of a press release than a news story?