• sovietknuckles [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Photoepilepsy is a disease. If that’s why they’re getting gene therapy, then great.

      In my case, I have redacted, a genetic demyelenating disease, and I want nothing more than to get gene therapy so I stop losing the ability to walk (because my existing nerve damage will never heal, the most gene therapy can do is keep it from getting worse, which would still be very good) and being at risk of dying every time I hit my head.

      I really do appreciate the value of gene therapy for treating diseases. But this isn’t being presented as a “photoepilepsy jab”, it’s being presented as autism jab, and autism is not a disease.