"A team of scientists in Texas used CRISPR to edit out genes associated with autism traits in mice and observed clear results: The animals stopped digging obsessively, their erratic jumping around the cages slowed to a halt and they became more calm."
This sounds like a fucking lobotmy. They're just editing out all the behaviors except placid "normal" ones.
The article also refers to autism as a "developmental disorder" that autistic people "suffer from."
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-edit-autism-genes-traits-texas-crispr-research-mice-997948
Neurotypicals are seriously fucking obsessed with rigidly enforcing some arbitrary standard of normalcy, just hiding away and eliminating all diversity in the human species to make everyone fit their neat little society with its neat little boxes.
ableism, eugenics
@alexispurslane And to see what the next step of this process is, you only have to scroll down to the article's comment section, specifically the article by a "parent"
ableism, eugenics
@alexispurslane This is also still an active area of research, by the way, judging from a quick search for 'autism crispr'. Probably time to start thinking about how to sabotage that research most effectively...