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27 May 2013, 11:09 pm

A major university near me is doing a drug study on the affects of Oxytocin and Vasopressin on adult males on the Autism spectrum. I hear they are looking for males ages 20 to 40 to participate in this study, I want to try to participate.

So I was wondering how many if you would be willing to participate in an drug study related to autism.



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27 May 2013, 11:13 pm

I might since the side effects of those two drugs are already known. if it were an entirely new drug, I don't think i'd take the risk,



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27 May 2013, 11:21 pm

If I study any drugs, I'll do so on my own :P

Why risk losing the closest thing to normality I've ever known? Even if it's a simple trial that doesn't mean the dosages have been outlined properly.


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27 May 2013, 11:45 pm

How much do they pay? If it's that craptastic "compensation for time and travel", then I wouldn't bother.



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27 May 2013, 11:52 pm

You aren't worried this could lead to a cure?



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28 May 2013, 12:04 am

I read the oxytocin made autistic subjects behave like NT subjects in a social interaction game called Cyberball. I'd wanna try it out in a study. I think it's a nasal spray, and effects are temporary.


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28 May 2013, 12:10 am

btbnnyr wrote:
I read the oxytocin made autistic subjects behave like NT subjects in a social interaction game called Cyberball. I'd wanna try it out in a study. I think it's a nasal spray, and effects are temporary.


Yes, which is why they are combining it with the drug Vasopressin, in the hope of making the affect more long term.



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28 May 2013, 1:58 am

DVCal wrote:
A major university near me is doing a drug study on the affects of Oxytocin and Vasopressin on adult males on the Autism spectrum. I hear they are looking for males ages 20 to 40 to participate in this study, I want to try to participate.

So I was wondering how many if you would be willing to participate in an drug study related to autism.


HELL, NO! Why would I want to change who I am?

Of course, if you or any one else want to try this newest poison, who am I to stop you?



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28 May 2013, 5:41 am

i would particapate


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28 May 2013, 6:24 am

I wouldn't because I love myself. warts and all and that includes my autism.


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28 May 2013, 8:04 am

depending on needed time investment on my part and offered compensation, i would.



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28 May 2013, 12:45 pm

As above, it is definitely worth investigation.



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28 May 2013, 2:34 pm

Anything worth doing is worth doing well; and anything worth doing well is worth getting paid well to do!

Drug studies? Sure! Just pay off my creditors, first!



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28 May 2013, 5:10 pm

those two drugs would make me friendlier [I am already friendly to a fault] but they'd do nothing to make my frontal lobes any quicker or less buggy, IOW i'd be making the same social faux pas as before. maybe if combined with Strattera?



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28 May 2013, 7:55 pm

auntblabby wrote:
those two drugs would make me friendlier [I am already friendly to a fault] but they'd do nothing to make my frontal lobes any quicker or less buggy, IOW i'd be making the same social faux pas as before. maybe if combined with Strattera?


These drugs have never been tested in combination before, so their is no way you could know their affect as such. Their is evidence that they effect far more than you think, and may impact all areas of autism.



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28 May 2013, 10:41 pm

I would. I don't think it would change who I am, just make it a bit easier to converse and meet people.