7 Reasons Why Being Autistic and Tripping on LSD Are **Extremely** Similar!

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A word on brain connectivity—
My description of brain connectivity in this video is definitely very simplistic; hopefully I’ll do an in-depth video soon (whenever God tells me to, that is) on psychedelic and ASD brain connectivity research. Regardless, when first brushing over the research, it can seem like ASD tends to show less brain connectivity, while LSD creates more brain connectivity.

In some ways, this is true; that is, for us folks who are autistic, it seems that the ability for localized regions of the brain to talk to each other is less than that of allistic brains. However, within those localized systems, the brain connectivity is generally heightened compared to a neurotypical model of the brain. Heightened localized connectivity, harder ability to communicate between regions(at least, after the brain has fully developed).

Two things seem to happen to brain connectivity when LSD is administered: localized connectivity shoots through the roof but so does the ability for localized areas to talk to each other. In other words: LSD mirrors ASD in the way that localized areas of the brain become highly connected but seems to differ from ASD in respect to long range connectivity—where ASD shows more difficult long range communication and LSD seems to produce a heightened ability to communicate between different areas of the brain.

A few thoughts on this before I end the ramble—
One: it seems relevant to consider how a constant exposure to LSD-like connectivity patterns would manifest in ultimate brain connectivity (is it possible that prolonged exposure to LSD-like effects and it’s long range increase in communication would eventually settle down into a more segregated communication system like what we see in ASD? It seems likely, to me at least, because eventually the brain would need to slow it’s processing speed down, choose certain paths, and establish some more patterned rhythm…)

Two: although research shows that folks with ASD have a deficit in long range communication, some of the brain anatomy in ASD individuals contradicts this idea. For instance, high long range communication during the brain’s development would result in things like more left-brain right-brain coherence and subsequently a thicker corpus callosum, which is exactly what seems to be the trend in ASD brain anatomy versus neurotypical brain anatomy. Thus its possible that during the brain’s formation in ASD individuals long range communication is heightened, but somewhere in the development that long-range communication is broken down. Meanwhile in the short-lived experience of LSD, this possible long-term effect would be hard to replicate.

All of this is to say that the research between neural connectivity, LSD, and autism is varied and has plenty of aspects to explore but one thing is certainly true and is also the main point: in both cases, brain connectivity seems to be a major factor in brain functioning and, furthermore, both ASD and LSD cause increased localized neural connectivity. That’s my rant for today: more to come whenever Jesus decides.

Some sources to check out to jumpstart any research you may want to do yourself:
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/24/...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26912...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...