Does child abuse cause Developmental Disabilites

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Just to note... abusive parents who are religious does not mean religion itself is abusive... Neglectful parents who are not religious will also find reasons not to teach their children what they need to know.

In this case religion was the excuse but not the reason. Most religious parents with autistic children do their best to educate their children as well as they possibly can.

My bf has brain damage and he has seizures and learning disabilities and learns slower. He even is bad with directions which might be part of his brain damage too. He's gotten lost before in this city but he finds his way.

This may be true for Christian and/or other religious Westerners, but when speaking of worldwide religious parents (religion unspecified)...? The only real implication I'm making is that there may not be much that some regional parents can do for Autistic children, including the possibility that they are religious but lack education of child development, health care, necessities, etc. Families (worldwide) can be religious and still not know how to care for an autistic child, and then who knows what happens...? What if the majority of the world's Autistics live in third world situations? I don't know the statistics on this, yet.

It's a differential diagnosis for ASDs, so I'm guessing that it (i.e., brain damage due to physical abuse), can manifest as autistic-like behaviour.

Injury can cause Savant Syndrome, not the same as a developmental disability, but interesting:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKk96kOAnLg&feature=related[/youtube]

I sometimes wonder how much of the way I am is genetic and how much is from outside sources.

I think it is a combination.

I didn't know that but it makes sense.

according to reports there is a high chance I have brain damage. My intelligence is with in normal range.

I know from personal experiance, that a number of abusive things can cause mental impairements of various sorts. The more it happens, the bigger the problems. Our human brain does certain things in childhood for the sake of survival whether we all like it or not. Boy what a variety of things that come from abuse.

This is why I wonder...

absolutely, my partner works with kids with intellectual and behavioural disabilities, the two that spring straight to mind are Conduct Disorder and Attachment Disorder. Both are disorders acquired through abuse of varying nature

Of course if you are a scientologist then all disorders were acquired when Xenu blew us all to bits. And the trauma has been past down though the ages.

Developmental problems cannot be caused by "trauma", severe mental difficulties yes. By definition direct brain injury is a different from developmental but there is a different developmental path after the injury. However from data from feral children, they have found that the brain requires certain stimulus before a certain age as after this age these part of the brain will fuse and they will no longer be able to learn to the same degree. It is definitely the case with language. The age is around 8 years old. Beyond this the ability to understand syntax, grammar and whole sentences vanishes.

It has to be very specific environment completely cut of from normal stimulus for that long, therefore cases are very few. Less than a handful of cases are known.

Developmental problems can so be caused by trauma. My IQ is normal but I have brain damage.

Sounds like your bf has right hemisphere damage. I have this too in addition to frontal lobe. I have brain damage due to repeated concussions. Have problems learning new things, getting lost, remembering what I did 5 minutes ago. Dr told me I have ADD but due to the brain injury. I seriously can't sit still through an entire tv show since the BI. Its so weird.

I've always wondered about this myself. Because my mom didn't take care of me and made me stay in my room and only come out at meals and for a bath. I was ordered not to speak to other kids at school. I think my mom has AS. I never learned facial expressions or social stuff from her. She also left me alone and I learned to cook for myself at 3 yrs old. So are Aspies born that way or created by abuse?

They used to say Kanners autism was caused by "refrigerator moms", but then they changed the view of that. But it makes a person wonder. Dissociation disorder in adults is often said to be caused by neglect or abuse during childhood.

My main partner was diagnosed as having a "Dependent Personality".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_ ... y_disorder
That is the only thing that he is diagnosed with.

He had an unusual childhood that involved a whole lot of world travel and parental neglect.
Also, his parents are heavy drinkers.

He is not exactly neurotypical.

He is a very creative and intelligent person, but he has has a lot of issues with executive dysfunction. He has the propensity to hyperfocus like an Aspie. He can be quite avoidant at times.
He struggles socially, but not as badly as I do.
He really does depend upon other people to do a lot of things for him. It can be quite nerve wracking at times.

I wonder too about him how much of his personality can be attributed to the neglect, and how much to his mom very possibly drinking while she was pregnant, and how much from other factors.
I can imagine certain things could easily go hand in hand in many stiuations.

Not too long ago, I heard a program on the radio about alcohol use during pregnancy, and how even if a child does not have full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome, they can manifest all kinds of learning problems. ADHD was mentioned. I could have sworn that Autism was mentioned as well.

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