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Is there a drug that can give an autist a "normie experience"? (programming.dev)
submitted 17 hours ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/autism@lemmy.world
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Asking because my gf has ADHD and she told me that, the first time she took ritalin (methylphenidate), she thought to herself "So this is what it feels like to not have ADHD?"

That got me thinking, is there a drug that has a similar effect on autists, that allows them to experience what is it like to "not have autism"?

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I appreciate that from the responses here, it seems that a lot the autistic community views normal people as the equivalent of just being drunk or high. In other words, raw autism is like being extra sober.

I agree (moreso THC for me personally), but I also think it's really funny.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I suspect that the usual alcohol/weed choices don't actually change anything. They just deaden our ability to care as much about not messing up and whatever the current sensory shit is doing. So, less autism, but only because it's less of our experience as a whole.

[–] shiri@foggyminds.com 4 points 14 hours ago

@DaGeek247 @paultimate14 @ICastFist This.

A lot of us autistic people tend to look down on allistics. Sometimes it's a coping strategy to deal with the judgements levied against us, sometimes it's a refusal to see our own flaws.

... and it's not without value sometimes, because there are sometimes the allistics just suck... (see Identity Theory of Autism that highlights how we're morally much more consistent than them)