I watched a video recently on YouTube, an Adam Conover video about MDMA. How its supposedly going to get FDA clearance next year to help with Veterans PTSD. They discussed how MDMA brings the brain into a state of elasticity similar to children, which is what makes it easier to learn things like another language when your a kid. In a different source I read about how children with Autism can go through therapies that could significantly help, some pages specifically talked about age windows for those kinds of therapy. I believe this is due to the same Elasticity.

Would it be a stretch then for MDMA to have potential medicinal applications for helping struggling autistic adults? By restoring that elasticity and doing targeted therapy sessions?

Disclaimer, I am not a neuroscientist, just a struggling adult. Not telling anyone to go out an do anything, wanting thoughtful discussion.

  • emenaman @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I did shrooms and mdma in my early 20s as well and I think it helped me tremendously. I would go to small gatherings with ‘hippy’ musicians as I have always been one with playing music to fit in with people. After a few months and a bunch of doses, I slowly started to understand body language but still a hard time with speech/conversations. One of my shrooms trips, I made some kind of connection with micro entities living within me and my whole life changed after that. The mdma would just make me not be scared of being myself which a few people saw the beauty in my character. What I now know is called masking, I subconsciously become aware of and was no longer a visible wreck in social situations. I was still very focused and on edge with everything, but now I was being accepted by people and made a few good friends. I didn’t know I was on the spectrum until my 30s but if I had known the info I do now in my 40s, I think my life would of been a tad more successful. But I am just sharing my experiences, I know it’s not for everyone and I know I was extremely lucky with my experiments. Looking forward to more scientific studies and I hope it helps the future generations. Being lost, confused and overstimulated while being talked down to and made feel worthless by everyone is not something I wish on anyone. Be safe!