Breathing - Asperger - Autism

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Anyone feel their ability to breath is a little different?

Tendency to mouth breath at times vs nose breath

Shallow breathing at times

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I've lived with it so long I don't really think about it anymore, but yes. All three of my spectrum kids have inhalers for occasional problems, but mostly never use them except for persistent coughing, which is rare now, but didn't used to be. They all get winded whenever engaged in strenuous activity, so they all tend to avoid it, as did I at there age, mostly for the same reason.

I've always had off and on severe sinus problems too though, which aggravates the need to breath through my mouth during physical activities. That causes dry mouth and I end up drinking too much fluids, which leads to multiple and equally aggravating trips up and down the stairs to the bathroom. I'm almost fifty now though, so age is playing its part now too.

Nope, the only breathing issue I've ever had is a low lung capacity.

Only during bad panic attacks. It's like all of the air is gone.

I'm a very shallow breather.

i find it hard to get a full breath sometimes which is annoying

If I'm stressed I have this problem too, which includes anxiety and depression.

But even without it, if I got overwhelmed by my senses, or ate something bad, or just -something- sense related, it seems I breath less or not at all, and have to consciously make myself breath.

I have asthma, I've always chalked it up to that. Nervousness, physical overexertion, stress/anxiety, heat, certain foods, my allergies, etc make it worse. It's not as bad as when I was younger, though, and now I have an inhaler. But it becomes a problem even if I think about it too much. Like when you are trying to do relaxations and people say to focus on your breathing... the moment I focus on it it becomes difficult.

When I constantly felt like I was about to have a panic attack prior to beginning SSRI therapy, I had difficulty breathing all the time. When I started SSRIs, that problem went away.

It had to do with the fact that my adrenal glands were secreting copious amounts of adrenaline 24/7 in response to my constantly panicky mood, and adrenaline forced my bronchi to constrict, which resulted in decreased air circulation.

I almost constantly naturally control my own breathing since I started doing yoga.

Yeah but I was diagnosed with asthma and respiratory allergies long before I ever even considered the possibility that I might be autistic or have Asperger's Disorder.

Is there any statistical analysis by a reputable source linking asthma and Asperger's, or autism and allergies?

This. I was dx'ed with allergies and asthma before Asperger's became part of the DSM. I always had the problem that I needed more air than my nose could provide when doing active things.

I don't know whether it's the asthma or the Asperger's, but when I read something out loud, I tend to not have enough air to make it through to the comma or full stop, so I stop just too early to breathe.

I tend to breath through my mouth but I had chronic sinus problems throughout my life & I had a deviated septum(inside of my nose was crooked) that I got surgery for last year.

In this video I shot recently I can be heard breathing heavily, especially at the end.
But I think that might have more to do with my difficulty with walking.

Well I do sometimes find myself mouth breathing...though I try not to if its cold out, but still might if I exert myself. Also in the spring I have allergies, nothing life threatening...but certainly unpleasant with all the sneezing and mucus and stuffy nose so I take over the counter stuff for that, not anti-histamines though as they make me feel really weird.

I try to breath through my nose as much as possible. I live in a dessert and breathing through the mouth can dry your mount out really fast. Especially if you're sleeping.