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I think that childhood Photophobia, Hyperacusis, Misophonia, Dysphonia, Aphasia, Alalia, Apraxia, Dysarthria, Prosopagnosia, Agnosia and also childhood Chorea should be part of the Autism Spectrum and here is why



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Photophobia, or light sensitivity, is an intolerance of light. Sources such as sunlight, fluorescent light and incandescent light all can cause discomfort, along with a need to squint or close your eyes. Headaches also may accompany light sensitivity. Light-sensitive people sometimes are bothered only by bright light.


Misophonia is a disorder in which certain sounds trigger emotional or physiological responses that some might perceive as unreasonable given the circumstance. Those who have misophonia might describe it as when a sound “drives you crazy.” Their reactions can range from anger and annoyance to panic and the need to flee.

Hyperacusis is highly debilitating and rare hearing disorder characterized by an increased sensitivity to certain frequencies and volume ranges of sound (a collapsed tolerance to usual environmental sound). A person with severe hyperacusis has difficulty tolerating everyday sounds, which become painful or loud.

Aphasia is a condition that robs you of the ability to communicate. It can affect your ability to speak, write and understand language, both verbal and written.




Dysphonia refers to having an abnormal voice. It is also known as hoarseness. Dysphonia has many causes which are detailed below. Changes to the voice can occur suddenly or gradually over time. The voice can be described as hoarse, rough, raspy, strained, weak, breathy, or gravely.

Speech delay, also known as alalia, refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech. Speech – as distinct from language – is the actual process of making sounds, using such organs and structures as the lungs, vocal cords, mouth, tongue, teeth, etc.

Apraxia is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to perform learned (familiar) movements on command, even though the command is understood and there is a willingness to perform the movement. Both the desire and the capacity to move are present but the person simply cannot execute the act.

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder in which the muscles that are used to produce speech are damaged, paralyzed, or weakened. The person with dysarthria cannot control his or her tongue, larynx, vocal cords, and surrounding muscles, which makes it difficult for the person to form and pronounce words.

pros·o·pag·no·sia

/ˌpräsəpaɡˈnōZH(ē)ə/

noun PSYCHIATRY

a neurological condition characterized by the inability to recognize the faces of familiar people.


Agnosia is the loss of the ability to recognize objects, faces, voices, or places. It’s a rare disorder involving one (or more) of the senses.

Chorea is an abnormal involuntary movement derived from the Greek word “dance”. It is characterized by brief, abrupt, irregular, unpredictable, non-stereotyped movements. In milder cases, chorea may appear purposeful. The patient often appears fidgety and clumsy.


If we mix all of these childhood disorders together, It will look like Autism Spectrum Disorder

Is a very good description. One thing I have is prosopragnosia. I had not heard of agnosia. What is the difference?
A few other terms are also new to me or I need a recap to remind me of.
Some of the things I may be effected by but I don't know. I know I am effected by certain smells which cause me to have shutdowns if they are overpowering. The things I dont know are ones that I seem more sensitive to then the average person but they don't cause me deep issues like they can with others? Example is those strip lights which when I was in school classrooms they can be painful... But though I probably could not really concentrate much on the lessons, they did not mean I could not tollerate the enviroment. I could tollerate it with disscomfort if that makes sense? How would I know if the average person is the same? I don't know.
Otyer sensitivities. Wifi... Though I am tollerating it, it is harder to sleep with the high pitched wifi noise. I can also feel mobile phones wen I have to speak on them and have to hold the handsets away from my ear by about an inch or two, which makes hearing difficult. I get a pain in my head if I hold the phone too close.
I also get a similar pain when I am in the same room as a microwave is being used.
Before wifi, I used to clearly hear bats. I was once told off by a man who stood right next to me and blew his dog whistle right by my ear. I quicly had to put my hands over my ears and the guy went buzzerk on me claiming it was impossible to hear it and thought I was being awkward with him. Wifi which gave me many sleepless nights seems to have deadened my ability to hear bats so much. I can sleep now as I seem to have partly lost the ability to hear the higher pitched sounds since wifi. I used to turn it off at night to sleep but found my brothers would tell me off as it has to stay on all the time for the internet to work.

But anyway. Prosopragnosia is wierd because I dont know when it will cause me issues or not, as I do not know when I have not recognized someone unless they tell me,and sometimes I also get a type of prosopragnosia with people names as well, so if they do say who they are, they may need to remind me where I know them from. It can be wierd as I have had people.. Well. I remember when I worked on the railways. I had a short break inbetween trains. On the way back someone spoke to me and I asked who they were. He said "Its me. Your train driver. We were working together 20 minutes ago!" "Oh yes! Oops! Silly me!" Haha! That is what prosopragnosia is like. And I was the one who sold tickets on the trains! I did not remember faces. I remembered seats, and even though I could be working trains with a few hundred seats which I would memorize from stop to stop which was often around 100 stops or more during a shift, I would do it.
What threw me off were passengers who changed seats during the journey where I did not see them change seats. Looking back, I must have had a good memory to do all that. So why do I get issues memorizing peoples faces? (Even my own face!)

Thank you!

That makes sense