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Getting a...
poop transplant....
to cure my autism
I still can't believe poop transplant is a real thing. It sounds like a shitpost
Well it's not a shitpost, it's a shittransplant
Well that's because it's not it's a microbiota transplant the poop is just substrate
The first time I heard about it I had the same reaction as damn near everyone, but it really makes a lot of sense
More like a postshit than a shitpost.
Unless the FMT goes thru the mail.
I would be okay with fixing my gastrointestinal issues and some of my cognitive struggles if I kept my cognitive differences.
Same, I have zero desire to think like a neurotypical. I don’t wanna be an NPC.
thankfully I don't think that this sort of therapy would change everything about someone's cognition. We already know that autistic and ND brains have physical differences in their construction compared to neurotypical folks. We also knew that new structural differences may not be the entire story!