>>14360737>Ah yes, hand wave and dismiss a research paper you don't like without providing any evidence for your claim that it is invalid. Classic sci1. It's obvious, you're not dealing well with your autism diagnosis.
2. I don't need to disprove the null hypothesis when it's the task of the paper to prove the alternative hypothesis. You would probably know that if you weren't keen on whining and wasting your time on the internet.
I only introduced some of the thousands of variables (location, medication, socioeconomic factors, food intake etc.) that likely cause this paper to be wrong. Given that I don't see much research done on bufotenine levels and any of the currently accepted psychiatric categories, it seems likely that further research has gone nowhere e.g. that the results of the paper you just posted couldn't be reproduced.
3. Among psychologists, ASD is known as a dumpster diagnosis where those cases land that psychiatrists either don't want to specify or who just don't fit more specific diagnostic labels. I know of no single research paper whose results could be generalized to the majority of all cases diagnosed with ASD, similarly for Depression or ADHD. It also is a very cynical diagnosis in that it 1. obscures those cases which do go back to known metabolic or neurological issues, 2. it suggests a commonality among those diagnosed as such when in fact research can't find anything and 3. it aggravates and escalates already existing social and communicative issues rather than resolving them.
If you want to solve your issues in life, maybe take another perspective rather than clining to a diagnosis that literally states X is X because it is X.
