First study of psilocybin in adults with autism opens 

Looking at the good effects of psilocybin mushrooms on depression I had a test, the effects of just one dose of psilocybin mushroom gave me an encouraging result.

Psilocybin mushrooms saved my life honestly. They helped me see the pure beauty in life, and made me realize how dumb it would be to take myself out.

Depression haunted my life from a very young age, and I was put on a bunch of SSRIs as a child in attempt to deal with it. None worked.Psychedelic mushrooms was brought to my attention. It was the first thing that actually had real effects. They should only be used with great care and respect.

Fantastic. I'm autistic and as a late teen had a big dose of psilocybin. It made me feel connected, loving, compassionate and part of a bigger picture rather than separate and different from everyone else which I had done previously. And you never go back.... I wouldn't say the shrooms 'cured me' but they certainly helped me adapt and grow. I feel deep gratitude for that experience.

Upon my first shroom trip, my depression disappeared overnight. It shifted my perspective on the way I viewed myself. It showed me that I was stuck in one way of thinking. This was unhealthy mentally and it was affecting me physically. Within 6 months of the trip, my chronic lower back pain disappeared, I'm sure it was due to tension and stress, and hasn't returned.

I have been depressed for a long time, but after taking shrooms few months ago, l feel much happier and highly motivated and my ADHD gone , lost a ton of anxiousness and had a few epiphanies about how I should live my life. I decided to buy an ounce for backup, but haven’t yet felt the need to take any more since then.

Psychedelic mushrooms are very beneficial substances and can really help people with mental health issues like anxiety and depression. My journey has been a testimony.

Psychedelic help a lot and they’re like a cheat sheet to life, but you could also experience the same things. Psychedelic amp tf out whilst being sober, meditation and astral projection are key.

It’s heavily suspected that I’m autistic and psilocybin was the single most effective mental health medication I’ve ever used. In desperation, I tried it last year after a period of extreme stress I couldn’t handle. It activated “admin mode” and corrected garbage data in my brain, and afterward…actual, real peace for the first time in my life. No ADHD or depression symptoms. No pain. No anxiety or self-doubt. Just chill and accepting of who I was as a person, flaws and all. No more trying to hide from yourself. Extremely reparative, and lasted about a week before symptoms started returning, though milder. In that week I was in a great mood, had enough energy to have a personality and actually get things done and go places. It was great.

Really interested in the potential that psilocybin has to help autistic people, but as an autistic person, I feel a disconnect from how autism is talked about in this video. I think psilocybin has amazing potential at helping autistic people to understand themselves, but ultimately this treatment is only going to be affective if more work is done to improve the societal conditions for the equality of autistic people. I think it could help autistic people with depression and anxiety, as talking therapies and CBT is less effective, but I felt this video didn’t acknowledge this context, and I therefore felt it to be quite ambiguous as to whether it wanted to work ‘with’ autism, or ‘against’ it. Whether the goal was to maintain autistic characteristics while lessening poor mental symptoms, or whether there’s an underlying intention that autistic traits are inherently troubled and need fixing.

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

I would love to try this. I will correct family members who say “they have first hand experience with autism” NO, you DON’T. Someone with autism has first hand experience with autism. Family members just know someone with it. That’s not first hand experience. 🙄 you know of what they tell you (that’s second hand knowledge, not first hand experience)

Psychedelic mushrooms really healed me years back. These are great healing compounds! When used in proper context.

I suffered a spinal cord injury while working rescue on a traffic accident. I covered the body of a 9 yr old girl thrown down an embankment. Then I fell. I was EMS heavy rescue for 26yrs. I was a strength athlete at 42 I just finished the World Masters Highland Games and National masters Strongman. My career my health all gone. I thankfully can get around i have lost my strength. My son has never spoke, he also has epilepsy. During the peak developmental years he was having 50 seizures a day. He never potty trained. He has to be cleaned and diapered many times a day. However he is the picture of health. 6’5” 250lbs. His sense of order is punishing. He only eats fast food for the most part. He only eats during his rides, he can’t bathe, never held a fork or spoon, hates clothes. He loves music and contemporary Christian is 90% of what he turns to. He can play music on phone and can look at pics on iPad. It’s at least $30 a day food gas before inflation. The irony is his brother is only 2 yrs older and maintains a lifetime 4.0 and still holds a 4.0 in medical school at 22. My wife still works ER 30Yrs as a Critical Care Nurse. My sons name is Peyton. He gets to attend school at special ED. They failed him it’s nothing more than babysitting. He sits in a rocking chair most time last few years. It gives us a break to get things done because he commands attention. He is so happy, never Sinned, hurt anyone, never felt hatred, jealousy, envy, money means nothing only Love. He gets up every day as it was the first day in a beautiful world he traveled a thousand years to reach. I spent years in nursing homes and the abuse and neglect is horrible. But for a bright shining young man with a pure heart to be doped up and tied down to wither and die will not happen to my son. We are terrified of dying and leaving him to such a fate when he walks a rainbow trail. Thank you all for the time to comment and show empathy and support. Bless you in your endeavors, pray for us. Pray for my boys. He has another year of school then it’s over. We can’t afford or find trusted competent sitters he is just too much to handle. I may be forced even to move in nursing home as his room mate and give my life up at home. God help me!

I’m autistic and bipolar 2. When I first started use the small amount of psilocybin on a regular basis I was hoping that it could help to treat my depression. And sure it’s really helped me a lot. But after month I started to realize that my autistic symptoms started to get better. I was able to meet new people and I wasn’t so exhausted after that meeting. I was able to try new things and I was able to work without burnout. Still my bipolar needs some medication, to cope with hypomania but after a year with psilocybin my life became more stable, happier than ever before.

Deeply interested in the findings of this study, but find myself feeling weary of people (especially professionals) saying they have first hand experience with autism when referring to their family members.

Wow. Incredible! Well done everyone.

Thank you Compass 🙏🏼

I wish I had the money to start a school of special needs named after my son. He only has one year of school left. The young adults and older in our region have nothing. They will become isolated and forgotten. Never seeing their friends with whom they shared life with. We need top quality motivated people to stimulate and enrich the lives of people like my Son. The public school systems are barely able now to accommodate the general population. The basic sound fundamentals of academics and behavior taught for generations is virtually non existent as just surviving a day at school and the realization of being a man or a woman has become half the goal for many. There are people with a lot of money that could help. Thank everyone for the concern on my Sons behalf..🙏🏻🌈🍀

Great share, very helpful and useful topic, Hope topics like this will be more discussed..!

I’m autistic and would like to eventually take part in a study like this.

I am autistic and a user of psilocybin, as it is the only substance that helps me to regulate my condition at the root cause level. My mother noticed a sudden change for the better in me after after only a few mushrooms experiences; So much so that I told her what I was doing and she was thrilled for me, bless her and she wanted to know more and the idea was embraced without the expected judgement for using an illegal controlled drug for self medicating purposes.❤ If I had to describe how I feel after a mushroom experience, then I would say it is as if I have been set free from what I can only describe as a 'spirit jail' and made whole, both mentally and physically. I can feel my body as a whole being. I can feel the blood coursing through my veins, I can feel my arms and legs, and the strength that I have in them with my slouching posture corrected and straighten. My stimming and hand flapping habits go away and I feel energised, free and deeply empathetic towards others with a mental clarity that I could never imagine was possible. I gain the ability to imagine other people's perspectives which both baffles me and excites me in ways that I cannot even describe. I even gain full spacial awareness and the motivation to go out and enjoy my life. The effects are felt for a week or so after the experience wears off (for me of course - everyone is different, so I count my blessings here) and my autistic self returns - the clumsiness, sloughing and verbal communication issues come back but every time I've learned something new about life that I did not know before the experience which I get to keep forever about social interaction which makes me feel less awkward about myself. I know that ethically, promoting the use of substances which have a potential to cause psychosis in those predisposed is a very grey area, but I cannot express how deeply transforming psilocybin has been for me as a person. I love being open and frank about using this medicine in a responsible way and I truly hope that one day soon we autistic people can experience clinically administered psilocybin therapies and be let out of 'spirit jail' forever.

Fascinating, I was diagnosed with autism later in life and have experience with MDMA, what I experience is the return of social skills that had been lost / turned off by autism. When taking MDMA I can have normal conversations in which I can read their expressions, body language, I understand my own body language; it really is quite remarkable because normally I am the total opposite. A genuine fish out of water in a social setting. I also have experience with LSD and psilocybin mushrooms which opened up a whole new world of abilities; but nothing to do with socialising! Between the lot I would say MDMA helped the most with communication, LSD the most with physical movement. Mushrooms? Not sure, I never felt "alone" even though I was!

FASCINATING, THANKYOU....

This comment section is more informative than the actual video Love to see it 💚 I haven't dared yet except some experiences with shrooms but in a tiny dosis and not ideal circumstances But this is very interesting

I wish I lived in London. I have autism and psilocybin has been highly beneficial to me. I want to see the specific neural mechanism effects. Well done Compass. I hope more, and larger, studies will follow.

Nothing about us without us. As an autistic adult I appreciate the research being done into helping the autistic become more at ease, functional, and accepted in this neurotypical world. That said, it's unethical to perform such reasearch without autistic people leading it, or at the very least being consulted and having veto power over protocols. We autistics do not have chemical imbalances. We are not sick or disabled. We are biologically different, and attempts to normalize these differences is eugenics. As long as the autistic lead efforts to foster understanding and accpetance and accomodation of these differences, things will improve for us. But if such efforts are lead by neurotypical scientists - no matter how well intentioned - they will lead to further harm. Psychiatry and psychology have a long and awful history in this regard. Imagine trying to help gay people "balance their brain chemistry" so they can "get married and lead normal lives". Imagine trying to help black people assimilate into American culture better by changing the color of their skin after designating being black as a "melatonin imbalance" that can be fixed through skin bleaching. Nothing about us without us. It's that simple.

I'm late diagnosed with ASD and microdosing psilocybin saved my life

need more studies when it comes to parasitic infection

I would really like to try mushroom but is not found easily around here

thank you for trying to find new ways to help

I hate videos like this. Like “hey, look at us, we’ve clearly brought together a group of people to study this new subject”, but they don’t actually tell you any of their findings 😑

Well done !

I’ve recently been diagnosed with ADHD and autism in my 40’s. Approximately 25 years ago, I consumed 500 psilocybe semilanceata mushrooms - that’s not an exaggeration. It was not a good experience (understatement!😂). I was completely enveloped by an incredibly complex and geometrically detailed sphere, complete with auditory hallucinations that resembled a late 60’s avant-garde electronic music score. I couldn’t speak because I couldn’t recall any words, and I couldn’t recall any previous memories. Truly terrifying! I thought I’d never return to normal. Thankfully I did with no lasting consequences other than the memory of an incredibly intense experience that’s difficult to truly describe. I later found out that 80 mushrooms was considered a high dose.

asd, adhd, bpd, Did, cptsd, did a few large doses a couple years ago, and I snapped out of a disassociative state that had been lasting years

Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again but it’s just so hard to source here

I just tried an 8th of schoom cookies last night and even though I didn’t trip, I did feel really energized and focussed

Amazing!

I’m excited for this

I have tried LSD five times in my life. However, my most recent trip, which was by-far the most intense experience I've had, made me feel a lot more social, and a lot of the issues and obsessions I had prior seemed to mostly alleviate. It was mindblowing to say the least. I really recommend trying any classical psychedelic if you're autistic. It really has the capacity to help your brain grow to be more normal.

Thanks for doing research on that! Mushrooms saved my life many times, and I've recently discovered I'm autistic. Looking forward to hearing what you find out :D

I would love ❤️ to see 👀 a follow up with the findings thus far please 🙏 and thank you.

I really2 want to know the update on this study

At age 43 i got the diagnose autism. i used a big dose of magic mushroom at 37 and it changed my life, never used drugs before!. i think of shinking the amygdala. i tryed micro dosing it but did nothing fore me.

I already KNOW it works (I have autism) and I take a monthly dose it’s incredible 😍

I was not diagnosed with ASD-1 until I was age 64 years, in 2018. I first took LSD in 1967 and it changed my life, all for the better. I have taken LSD over 200 times, plus mescaline and psylocybin many, many times. I have not taken any psychedelics for 40 years, but am growing some psilocybin right now!

Hey, so if you’re a family member of an autistic person, you don’t have first hand experience. Please don’t say that, your lived experience is by proxy. Also “autistic” is not a dirty word, autism is not a disease. Many autistic people in this day and age prefer identity first over person first language.

I had a 11 month "peak" of mental illness when I did not leave my room. I was searching for any way out, I tried all the "legal" methods which made me worse (cbt emdr antipsychotics) . What I do remember is one day. Ordering some mushrooms and trying them and the first time in months I actually stretched my body and felt amazing and I actually wanted to go outside and feel the wind on my face... I remember smiling for the first time in months, almost as if I realised how easily they changed my mood. It was illegal therfore I did not/have not brought them since (the website shut down)... I am slowly returning to normacy, yet I wonder if micro dosing mushrooms might just actually be a cure to my psychosis. (it is still ruining my life) I really wish it was legal. Its criminal to criminalise natural drugs that may and have saved lives. The studies being done now should have been done in the late 60s/early 70s but I guess the pharmaceutical companies could not make enough profit off natural occurring drugs. My only turmoil stems from my religions anti intoxicants stance otherwise I probably would be micro dosing legal or not, and I am 100% sure I would be better then I am without them. Just like thc has been taken out of weed and the cbd is used medicinally, I hope we can do that with all drugs, or atleast allow for unbiased proper studies with the focal point being care/cures/recover of humans and not profit.

A book that some viewers here might find enlightening is Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind”. Always an engaging author, this recent book chronicles his journey in learning about, and trying some hallucinogenic drugs. Just reading it, I was reassured that 1) as an artist I already have some of the beneficial pathways in my brain, (!) and 2) the benefits he discovered possibly may be available to patients not too distant in the future, and with heartwarming results, particularly for people in dire need, eg terminal.

i ego deathed on acid when i was only 9 days 17, im slightly autistic, first i got anxious but it really opened my eyes and helped me figure out to think out of the box when it came to my depression i was experiencing since 12, glad it happend, but sometimes i feel like it would have been better if it happend in a later state of my life, but maybe i would have ruined my life even more with my depression so yeah just like anything in life its has its pros and cons.

They reveal the sacred wonder of reality.

This kind of therapy is really difficult to develop in the UK because society is so anal about drugs in general that the materials needed are so hard to get hold of. This drug and also CBD can help so much with all manner of brain stress. If they could be set for accessible and approved for safe medical use we wouldn't have such problems with street drugs and alcohol addiction. People would have something safe to go to that actually helps instead of making things worse. I say this as an autistic person who suffers many other conditions. Do watch the documentary Magic Medicine.

I felt like psilocybin helped me through some major depression I was dealing with.

I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??

It has been hugely theraputicly beneficial two me I can go 5/6 months of experiencing many beneficial effects between doses

Great to know this study will be specific as I’m really curious on the mechanics of it. I’m lvl 1 autistic with addh and just started microdosing and it really helps to have a different point of view with less anxiety, shame and mental rush… doing the 1 dose every 4 days and I’ve noticed some good changes.

My son is 20 and has never spoke. Never toilet trained, has epilepsy. God help me! I’m disabled from a spinal cord injury. I won’t let him be institutionalized. I will take us both out first.

I am also autistic and took a dose a psylocibin, but I had drank heavy in my early 20s and I had been persribed marijuana to deal with my sever digestive issues so I my experience may not be transferrable. I puked up the shrooms shortly aftert taking them, I heard tradtional indian music and felt as though my conciousness was just outside the pallace of a Deva. I scolded myself for 4 hours over my mental health and quest to feel better. In terms of sensation, it felt like being blackout drunk without actually being drunk and still being in full control of my body. I was in no danger and I remained in full control but I was in a lot of discomfort and I fealt "off" for 3 weeks afterwards. That being said, I used it because psylocibin is a key drug in brainwashing and I was hoping to try self brainwash away some mental issues it seemed to work I think.

I have autism and would enjoy participating if this study were stateside. If you do one at Mayo Clinic I’m in.

Adhd, it does dial you in even in small to moderate doses. For me at least it's a great med.

It's been 8 months any update on how it went?

No, you need a high dose in intervals coinciding with active ritual of personal therapy. Then implement the new behavior patterns like facing fear, breaking habit, expression.

Seems great yay

I need help my health overall is not great and I’d like to see if I can be part of something like this so I can get back on track and also help people and fulfill my purpose before all the damage I’ve done which has caused me to have bpd/ptsd/DID autism sleep and eating disorders (although I’m uncertain of my diagnoses) I feel ashamed and like an imposter saying this but would this help? One thing I’m certain of I get very concerning neurological symptoms such as the inability to look at someone in the eye stiffness in half or all body tingles and brining sensations in body and ankle strain and inability to walk straight please please I need help I am isolating where I shouldn’t be I’m terrified and this worsens when I don’t sleep well I tried seroquel but with my epileptic symptoms or Hypnos jerks and brain / face sensations feels like it got worse my nutrition isn’t great I have an infection and I’d like to find a place where everything can be taken care of in terms of physical / neurological/ mental needs. I’m not sure of pscilobin is the safest option but I want this to be as integrative as possible I’m open to traditional meds too as long as my overall health can be taken care of too and as long as I don’t suppress my spirits or get a stiffened up head / muscles such as when I took seroquel in one day I’ve been told to be patient by my parents but they’re not drs is this a normal (temporary) side effect?

I wish there were more subtle research into our actual braims instead of lumping people (erroniously) onto the autism spectrum based on "symptom clusters" that don't even match

I'm a late diagnosis Autist, when I was going through a period of Autism burnout, before diagnosis, psilocybin helped me get through that difficult time, I found that doses in excess of 5g, a month apart, were more effective than microdosing over a period of 30 days.

Very interesting. Ottowa majoral cannidate Jreg introduced the idea that autism and schizo are on the same spectrum. Shrooms would definitely help someone with the tism branch their thinking in a more schizo way and get a more normal perpective.

100% works.

I was just diagnosed with adhd and autism, i wish i knew how to sign up for studies like this because i'm a very holistic person "hippie" and have a strong urge not to take medication but feel like i have no choice

I've severe sensory problems, poor balance and perpetual irritation because of it. Is it microdosing I need to do or should I go hard?

how do I volunteer to be a test subject?

My child has Autism and MM is banned in my country. I would definitely want to try thid myself, before I micro dose my child. Would something like 0.5 grams per day be safe for a 12 year child? Hope I find some local supplier.

How can we participate in the study ?

sign me up!!!!!!

nice

It's not just neurological. Gut health has a great deal to do with autism, and especially food allergies..

Shit I've been studying that for a while 😂

I would like to visit your clinic. I have 6 yera old with high autism and we ate struggling with my son. We live in North london is there a way we could get advice for him. Thank you

Does CBD help

good luck! My step brother has autism. Any solution would be incredible

What did the study show??

Psychedelics have the ability to induce profound altered states of consciousness.

Let’s hope your research translates to the clinic

So they great for everyone !! but dont take too much hahah

So even hallucinations are a step up from autism

Mcalonan was BRAZY back in the days😂😂😂 dont ask her about the Glasgow incident in 89 😂 you dawg

You have 2nd hand experience as a family member of an autistic person. You have first-hand experience of how it makes you uncomfortable to not understand how and why we are the way we are. Please guide the study to help the world accommodate us, not on how to make all of you more comfortable around us.

Why are these same comments as another myshroom youtube?

Has anyone used psilocybin and Risperdal? If so, what was your experience?

I volunteer as tribute.

So how to we get in on this. As undiagnosed adults in another country 😂

If you have a hard time understanding your emotions you might be autistic mushrooms have helped me tremendously

The time will tell there's more harm in it than it's benefits.

Ok but can this study be done on people with level 3 autism

I'm autistic and I love shrooms. Get a team scientists on me and you are gonna learn something for sure. Hit my line bill Nye

Aaah ... so this is why my problems started when I stopped the drugs? ;D

I have even studying this for years. I have one subject lol. On a serious side note though, if you're gonna study things related to autism, maybe learn to address AUTISTIC PEOPLE as that, not "people with autism". Do you feel the need to say person who is Caucasian instead of white person, person who is heterosexual instead of straight person, person who is blind instead of blind person etc. ? No? Its because you recognize those as being real people- why is being an autistic person different?

I'm autistic, could someone please give me the shrooms? 🥺

So, this is basically a long advert for Compass Pathways. It should be done but Compass is patenting compounds to keep them from people, not serve the people.

I dont live 'with an it', I ám Autistic.