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Aspergers and drugs

pewpewmcdrew
over 7 years ago

A trait of Aspergers is difficulty re expressing/interpreting emotions?

And some drugs (eg LSD, MDMA etc) are empathogenic meaning whomever takes them will have an enhanced awareness of emotions/empathy?

Has any study/research been done to see if such drugs administered in low doses in a suitable environment could help people with ASD understand concepts such as empathy better?

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  • over 7 years ago

    I'm not sure what the effect would be: my impression of those drugs is that they increase the intensity of those emotions, whereas the trouble some people with ASD seem to have is the fluent communication and interpretation of them, in which case they may actually worsen the problem rather than ameliorating it.

    The trouble I get with emotions and empathy is that I have plenty of them, it's just that my emotional response speaks English and everyone else's is in French, so it takes me a while to interpret what people are telling me.  I think if I felt things even more keenly but my level of interpretation remained unchanged I'd be quite likely to feel even more frustrated and overwhelmed.

    Then again, maybe drugs like that would break down the communication barrier somewhat.  I dunno.

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  • over 7 years ago

    I'm not sure what the effect would be: my impression of those drugs is that they increase the intensity of those emotions, whereas the trouble some people with ASD seem to have is the fluent communication and interpretation of them, in which case they may actually worsen the problem rather than ameliorating it.

    The trouble I get with emotions and empathy is that I have plenty of them, it's just that my emotional response speaks English and everyone else's is in French, so it takes me a while to interpret what people are telling me.  I think if I felt things even more keenly but my level of interpretation remained unchanged I'd be quite likely to feel even more frustrated and overwhelmed.

    Then again, maybe drugs like that would break down the communication barrier somewhat.  I dunno.

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