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Females with Spectrum Disorders, are you a twin?
Yes, I have a male twin 15%  15%  [ 4 ]
Yes, I have a female twin 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
No, I am not a twin 77%  77%  [ 20 ]
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18 Nov 2006, 10:47 pm

Females on the autistic spectrum - are you a twin and if so is your twin male? Males on the austic spectrum with female twins - are your siblings on the spectrum?



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18 Nov 2006, 10:51 pm

I'm not a twin, but people can't tell me apart from my sister, even though she was born 18 months after me. Does that mean anything?



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18 Nov 2006, 10:54 pm

I am a female who had a male twin brother. I'm wondering if male hormones in the shared womb might affect autism in female twins.



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18 Nov 2006, 11:09 pm

A "shared womb" - what a magnificent notion! I feel a poem coming on. :)



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19 Nov 2006, 12:38 am

I am not a twin. My dad was, and he has strong AS trraits. His twin was female, but I never knew her. She died before I was born, and my dad has never said much about her to me. So I have no way of knowing whether she expressed any AS traits like my dad. I assume it's likely since just about everyone else in the family does.

I'm not a big fan of the testosterone in the womb theory, BTW. It's just a theory, and given the lastest research in neuropsychology that strongly suggests a problem with mirror neurons is behind autism, it's a theory that seems rather off the mark. It appears from this research the problme originates with the temporal lobe, which goes a lot farther in connecting common comorbidities like EFD and sensory problems to autism than does the hormone theory.



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19 Nov 2006, 1:03 am

Yeah, I sort of had that thought myself upon thinking about it. The theory probably just resonated with me because I'm a twin. My Dad isn't a twin and he's on the spectrum and neither is my Cousin who has LFA. We are all left-handed, though!



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19 Nov 2006, 1:23 am

I am a female with a twin brother.



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19 Nov 2006, 5:34 am

I don't have a twin, but I wish I did.



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19 Nov 2006, 3:41 pm

Cade wrote:
I'm not a big fan of the testosterone in the womb theory, BTW.

I am a supporter of the testosterone theory. Of course, there are many other factors, but I think it has merit in some cases. I'm an only child and nobody in my entire family has autism/Asperger's. Something went wrong with my development somewhere. I'd really like to know what...
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19 Nov 2006, 3:59 pm

Nope...not a twin.

Dad & Mom both had/have AS traits.


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19 Nov 2006, 6:19 pm

Yeah, I'm a female with a twin brother. :)