Just a reminder that there is nothing new about reversing autism-like symptoms in mice.

And that autism in humans is not well-defined.

And that whether or not varying severities of autism should be perceived as a disorder or condition in need of a cure does not have a consensus among experts.

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hoppp 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Autism is a very broad term that is no longer descriptive enough of the underlying condition.

Some people are really struggling while others are thriving.

It can involve thousands of genes and other factors.

Unless they invent better descriptions for the wide variety of conditions discussions are extremely generalized at best.

	▲	BigGreenJorts 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I recall sometime last year they were looking at being able to categorize 3 broad subcategories of autism that likely have separate causes and different levels of disability and symptoms. Depending on how true that is, it's possible we can isolate the axies of traits that are debilitating.

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question4HN 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Just a reminder that there is nothing new about reversing autism-like symptoms in mice.

As posted here 14 years ago:

Autism-like behaviors reversed in mice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816907