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/CanGuilty380 Feb 09 '25

I really want to write a constructive respnse to you and have a proper discussion about this, but the claim that autism isn’t a deficiency and just makes them different, just makes me mad. It minimizes so many autistic peoples experience. So I’m jist gonna go to bed.

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u/TheLastBallad Feb 09 '25

And the inability to recognize that a highly variable difference can be a difficency in some and not in others pisses me off because that also minimizes so many autistic peoples experiences, including mine.

But do continue to speak for others.

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u/kelcamer Feb 09 '25

Deficiency and disability aren't the same thing, though.

Yes, autism is a disability.

No, it doesn't make us deficient humans.

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u/d1rron Feb 10 '25

"Deficient" has more than one definition. Are you sure you're interpreting the correct one in this context?