r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Feb 08 '25

Neuroscience Specific neurons that secrete oxytocin in the brain are disrupted in a mouse model of autism, neuroscientists have found. Stimulating these neurons restored social behaviors in these mice. These findings could help to develop new ways to treat autism.

https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/research_news/rr/20250207_1/index.html
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u/Wilkham Feb 09 '25

As someone with autism some of these comments in this thread are legit criminal.

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u/Sata1991 Feb 09 '25

I'm getting really sick of them trying to push a cure on us. Sure bright lights and loud noises physically hurt me, but my autism is part of who I am.

I'm queer myself so I don't say this to try to minimise LGBTQ people's rights, but it reminds me a lot of the whole conversion therapy. My mom'd often say to me "I wish you were normal and didn't have autism" without thinking about how I feel.

They like to use people with higher needs as a reason why we need a cure, but without consulting those autistic people in question.

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u/shhhhquiet Feb 09 '25

I'm queer myself so I don't say this to try to minimise LGBTQ people's rights, but it reminds me a lot of the whole conversion therapy. My mom'd often say to me "I wish you were normal and didn't have autism" without thinking about how I feel.

Fun fact: conversion therapy and ABA, the most popular ‘treatment’ for autism, were created side-by-side in the same psychology department, with similar methods and the same stated goal to make their subjects ‘indistinguishable’ from other children.

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u/Sata1991 Feb 09 '25

ABA was horrible. It ended up just making me overanalyse everything I say and made it harder for me to socialise.