Thread by @AutSciPerson

Hold onto your hats folks,
Terrifying quotes incoming about Geschwind, the co-leader of #Spectrum10K:

"Because he studied brain development, she encouraged him to contact Portia Iverson, a mother of a boy with autism and movie-set designer who had launched Cure Autism Now."

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https://twitter.com/Saraheboon/status/1430501632702357511

"Shortly after Geschwind met Iverson, he became the first chair of the rapidly growing organization’s scientific review committee.

After Cure Autism Now launched AGRE, in 2001, Geschwind’s lab became increasingly involved in studying the genetics of autism."
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"In January 2008, following up on the 7q finding, Geschwindʼs team narrowed down the region to pinpoint a specific gene, Contactin Associated Protein-Like 2 (CNTNAP2), that is associated with autism and language deficits in males."
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"“Thereʼs no doubt in his mind that weʼre going to find these genes, figure out what they do and get some sort of treatment out of it,” says Maricela Alarcón, who worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Geschwindʼs lab for 3 years..now an assistant professor of neurology at UCLA."
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"“What weʼve learned most is that autism is far more heterogeneous than any of us expected,” he says. “But on the other hand, nowhere has there been more progress in genetics, in any complex disease, than in autism.”"

#StopSpectrum10K
#ActuallyAutistic
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Here's 1 more awful quote:

"“If you’re interested, even in a more abstract way, in human behavior and human cognition, autism is an extraordinary window into that..It involves dysfunction in social cognition, language ― the things that are really part of what makes us human.”"

TW ableism, eugenics, research

Mass tagging because it's important info about Spectrum10K

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@ChrisGPackham Please consider reading the above thread about the co-leader of Spectrum10K