Mild Autism/Aspergers And Brain Damage?

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They get brain damaged on top of autism. They are two different things.

I had a month of serious carbon exposure. And I do find that my symptoms are worse much worse right now, though that may be due to other things.

I was born premature by several weeks, if not a full month, and was also a "blue" baby.

But I still think I would have exhibited Aspie traits regardless, since its genetics that determine where we show up in the spectrum.

Ummm.

If brain damage would eliminate a developmental disorder, everyone here would ask someone to drop them on the head.

They would be someone with HFA, who then also has brain damage.

I definitely think damage to the brain can cause autistic like symptoms in patients that were previously not autistic. My friend has just suffered a TBI and I've done a lot of reading around on it and some of the symptoms after a brain injury are very similar to autism.

I turned blue an hour or so after I was born, I also don't attribute it to my autism - the reason why I turned blue was related to a birth defect in my nose (that was never picked up on, they just suctioned me and I learned to cope with it for many years) - I do however think my autistic traits are a co-morbid of whatever caused me to have that birth defect in the first place.

Me too, I have to wonder how many LFA are people who would have otherwise presented as HFA if not for having been inflicted with some undetected brain injury either at birth or the result of seizures or other trauma early in childhood.