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Is there a drug that can give an autist a "normie experience"?
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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.
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.