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Has anyone ever heard of my problem? (Very long read)
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 331604" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Well, I'd bet my bottom dollar you've got some sort of Autism Spectrum Disorder going on.</p><p></p><p>I am on the Spectrum as well, and I'm nearly twenty years older than you are. I'd bet that if you are functional today you've managed to learn a lot of the covert social skills.</p><p></p><p>They are regular diagnosing ASDs in adults now, despite only classical autism being recognized in small children. In fact, when I was a small child my issues were written off to poor parenting, aka the "Refrigerator Mom" syndrome.</p><p></p><p>It was thought that us Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) folks were that way as a result of not getting enough love and attention from their parents.</p><p></p><p>That is NOT true. The ASDs are a spectrum of disorders with varying degrees of expression and severity.</p><p></p><p>One thing that has been proven over and over again is that ASDs are the result of a fault in brain wiring, could be due to outside influence during pregnancy, but in most cases it shows up as a mutation.</p><p></p><p>In my case, my family is RIDDLED with autism of various types. My mother's an Aspie, my grandfather is one, one of my mother's brothers is one.</p><p></p><p>In fact, several years ago a major medical school did a study on the heredity of ASDs. I'm sure they were quite surprised to see three generations of us on the doorstep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 331604, member: 1963"] Well, I'd bet my bottom dollar you've got some sort of Autism Spectrum Disorder going on. I am on the Spectrum as well, and I'm nearly twenty years older than you are. I'd bet that if you are functional today you've managed to learn a lot of the covert social skills. They are regular diagnosing ASDs in adults now, despite only classical autism being recognized in small children. In fact, when I was a small child my issues were written off to poor parenting, aka the "Refrigerator Mom" syndrome. It was thought that us Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) folks were that way as a result of not getting enough love and attention from their parents. That is NOT true. The ASDs are a spectrum of disorders with varying degrees of expression and severity. One thing that has been proven over and over again is that ASDs are the result of a fault in brain wiring, could be due to outside influence during pregnancy, but in most cases it shows up as a mutation. In my case, my family is RIDDLED with autism of various types. My mother's an Aspie, my grandfather is one, one of my mother's brothers is one. In fact, several years ago a major medical school did a study on the heredity of ASDs. I'm sure they were quite surprised to see three generations of us on the doorstep. [/QUOTE]
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