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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nature: Autism is almost 60 percent genetic |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2014, 9:59 am
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Replies: 12
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| Being a neurological condition that exist from the birth, I was expecting to be 100% genetic (or perhaps 90% genetic and 10% cause by diseases during pregnancy, brain damege during the birth and some other special cases) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are we really this rare? |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 4:54 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,886
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| There is no actual strict demarcation as to when autism "begins" and "ends." It's highly subjective, even amongst clinicians. There is a bias toward NOT diagnosing autism, especially when "classic" symptoms (e.g., stimming, spinning toys, exquisite social withdrawal) are not apparent. If there is n... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are we really this rare? |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2014, 7:46 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,886
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| Autism of the Kanner type is rather rare. People on the Spectrum: not as rare as we think. Even "Kanner autism" is relatively common (if you mean the condition also know as "Early Infantile Autism" and "Autistic Disorder") - if anything, it is Asperger that is (or was) the "rare" type of autism (ac... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Historic Autistic geniuses? |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2014, 11:22 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,563
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| Hey there, I am just looking for your opinions on the whole "historic geniuses with autism" theory, you know like Beethoven, Einstein, Charles Darwin, JFK ( lol kidding) etc. I keep hearing about historic autistic geniuses, and part of me believes it, but part of me really does not. Just look at ( ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is PDD? |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2014, 9:37 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 766
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| PDD is, in essence, an euphemism to Autism Spectrum Disorder, created in part to avoid the negative stigma about the word "autism". |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why Increased Autism? |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2014, 9:10 am
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,087
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I suspect that is largely a change in diagnosis criteria - I think the majority of ASD cases are cases of PDD/NOS, that not existed before 1988.
It will be interesting to compare the rate of new diagnosis of ASD before and after de DSM-5 (my bet - a strong reduction). |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Just turned 18, what do I do now? |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2014, 7:43 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,717
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| Some studies say kids not adults till 25 since we'll have fully matured all parts of our brains especially the ones that help us make decisions. You are talking about autistics or about general population? If you are talking about general population, I think this don't make any sense; after all, du... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Just turned 18, what do I do now? |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2014, 10:27 pm
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,717
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| Some studies say kids not adults till 25 since we'll have fully matured all parts of our brains especially the ones that help us make decisions. You are talking about autistics or about general population? If you are talking about general population, I think this don't make any sense; after all, du... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Whats the primary difference between Aspergers and ASD? |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2014, 4:22 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,046
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| [I] had been diagnosed with ADHD as a 6 year old. I had a lot of trouble focusing in class and it wasn't because I was running around the room, with a huge amount of energy, and disrupting class. I was very quiet, kept to myself, shy etc. I just daydreamed a lot because I didn't pay attention to th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Whats the primary difference between Aspergers and ASD? |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2014, 4:11 am
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Replies: 13
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| As far as I know then ASD is the whole spectrum that includes low functioning autism,high functioning autism and Aspies. I might be wrong on this but low functioning autism has a low IQ<70, high functioning autism 70<IQ <100 and aspies 100<IQ. Those are not hardcaps, so you can have an aspie with I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: NT Children may exhibit Aspie traits? |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 8:34 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 922
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| There is another point in this thing "Autistic traits in general population": several studies have shown that, in general population, autistic traits are largely independent of each other (there is not a significant association between RRBI and social and communication impairments, and even between ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nts and their interests |
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Posted: 17 Jun 2014, 8:08 am
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,403
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| My impression is that most people have narrow interests - ask someone what he likes to do beside job/family, and most people will have only one or two hobbies/interests. Perhaps the "narrow interests" of autistics are simply an illusion - because autistics spend less time socializing, they spend mor... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: NT Children may exhibit Aspie traits? |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2014, 8:22 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I believe ASD traits exist on a continuum. In science, the Bell Curve describes distribution of traits across general human populations. It's a continuum that starts at one end with strong trait dominance and at tailing off to no trait dominance at the other. You could apply it to the distribution ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 28% of murderers thought to have suffered from ASD |
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Posted: 23 May 2014, 6:07 am
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Replies: 293
Views: 20,193
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| If the study is only about serial killers, makes sense an overrepresentation of suspected ASD: - for one side, serial killers are "strange" people, and strange people tend to be socially isolated - for other, serial killing is a repetitive behaviour - systematically murdering people during years The... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your score on this test, and are you diagnosed? |
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Posted: 12 May 2014, 11:36 am
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Replies: 119
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| However, I think that there is a thing in this text that does not makes much sense: Topic................Threshold values for suspected ASD......The average score for male neurotypicals Total score........................65.........................82.9 Language........................... 4............. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is your score on this test, and are you diagnosed? |
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Posted: 12 May 2014, 11:29 am
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Replies: 119
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Undiagnosed.
Total score........................97
Language.............................3
Social relatdness.............64
Sensory/motor.................21
Circunscribed Interests.....9 |
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