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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 252530" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I just did an advanced Google search. I typed in "autism" and "brain injury". I got a site which was looking at a number of conditions related to brain injury, including autism. I clicked on the autism link and got the following:</p><p><a href="http://www.healing-arts.org/children/autism-overview.htm" target="_blank">http://www.healing-arts.org/children/autism-overview.htm</a></p><p></p><p>One of the first statements on this lik was, "Nobody knows what causes autism." they then had a list of differential causes under consideration.</p><p></p><p>I do accept that in some cases, brain injury is a known cause. A classmate of difficult child 3's has brain-injury which has led to functional autism. Her brother has Asperger's and had no known brain injury. Of the many people I have talked to about this, a wide range of possible causes has been canvassed. The classmate with brain injury is the only acquired autism case I know of, among people we've met.</p><p></p><p>With the search I did - it would only have included intial links which mentioned both "autism" and "brain injury" in the same article. If I just Googled "autism" I would have got a vast number of hits, and rorm past experience with reading, the majority of articles actually DON'T claim the cause to definitively be brain injury.</p><p></p><p>Not that it would make much difference to me if it DID turn out to be due to brain injury - the cause doesn't really matter, when we're still dealing with the outcome. But this really is a lot bigger, I feel.</p><p></p><p>Summary - some articles may say that autism is caused by brain injury, but most don't make such a committment. Instead, they leave the door open for a wide range of possibilities, none of them locked in.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 252530, member: 1991"] I just did an advanced Google search. I typed in "autism" and "brain injury". I got a site which was looking at a number of conditions related to brain injury, including autism. I clicked on the autism link and got the following: [url]http://www.healing-arts.org/children/autism-overview.htm[/url] One of the first statements on this lik was, "Nobody knows what causes autism." they then had a list of differential causes under consideration. I do accept that in some cases, brain injury is a known cause. A classmate of difficult child 3's has brain-injury which has led to functional autism. Her brother has Asperger's and had no known brain injury. Of the many people I have talked to about this, a wide range of possible causes has been canvassed. The classmate with brain injury is the only acquired autism case I know of, among people we've met. With the search I did - it would only have included intial links which mentioned both "autism" and "brain injury" in the same article. If I just Googled "autism" I would have got a vast number of hits, and rorm past experience with reading, the majority of articles actually DON'T claim the cause to definitively be brain injury. Not that it would make much difference to me if it DID turn out to be due to brain injury - the cause doesn't really matter, when we're still dealing with the outcome. But this really is a lot bigger, I feel. Summary - some articles may say that autism is caused by brain injury, but most don't make such a committment. Instead, they leave the door open for a wide range of possibilities, none of them locked in. Marg [/QUOTE]
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