Does anyone else believe that their issues were caused by...

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...Society trying to restrain your anger? I used to have lots of public tantrums, and it's understandable why people would want to stop them, but I believe that my issues were caused by society telling me to hold everything in.

I personally haven't had much trouble with anger or meltdowns, yet I still have the standard autism related problems. I also haven't ever really struggled with depression though, perhaps my lack of anger to hold in helps with that.

Um.

Lead poisoning I'd guess.

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Reasons: exhibited strange enough behaviour as a tiny kid to get my mum investigating what could be up. The books she had, the symptoms suggested lead poisoning rather than autism.

So she sent off a hair sample for a university study, and my results were among those that got lead banned from petrol.

I was the first child. Not that many people know that one of the only ways that a human body can excrete toxins directly is via the umbilical cord, and that toxicologists have noted that still birth / miscarriage is often the body's way of clearing out toxins such as heavy metals. Sensible survival strategy really, a reproductively mature adult is far more valuable to the species than an unborn foetus.

I was *almost* a miscarriage, but my mum took raspberry tea.

My brother is a bit odd, bit like me, but much more normal.

Interestingly he doesn't have impaired empathy to the same degree, but does have attacks of anger...

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Today:

Study: Lead exposure can cause autism
METRO WORLD NEWS FEBRUARY 26, 2013 1:25 PM

Common metal previously discovered to cause brain damage and a disposition toward violence.

Autism symptoms correspond to the level of toxic metal in the blood, with exposure to lead particularly harmful, according to a US study.

Autism sufferers carried 74% more lead in their systems than control subjects, and 115% more tin. Sufferers with more severe symptoms carried higher concentrations of metal, with researchers at Arizona State University finding that toxic metal was the “strongest factor” in determining severity.
“We knew that exposure to lead makes people lose IQ points, and clearly it can induce autism”, lead researcher Professor James Adams told Metro. “The study also showed that people with the highest levels are least able to excrete them”.

Autism was previously thought be largely a hereditary condition but environmental and chemical reasons are now being accepted. “Studies such as this improve our understanding”, said Caroline Hattersley, head of information and advice at the UK-based National Autism Society, calling for “more research…across a greater geographical area.”

It is the latest lead concern, after Metro reported research in January that revealed exposure could induce aggression, violence and brain damage. “Anything to do with the nervous system will be badly affected, we’re only starting to see the full damage”, Professor Howard Mielke, who studied the toxin’s effects in 14 countries, told Metro. “There are huge repercussions for learning ability from just a small change in exposure.”
Lead remains widespread across the world, most commonly in soil and paint. But neither government nor the petrol companies that produced leaded gasoline have taken action to clear it, with the Ethyl Corporation suing environmental groups that attempted to hold it responsible.

In civil courts, hundreds of millions of dollars have been recovered by the victims of lead poisoning, and is a rapidly growing area for compensation claims. The largest award to date is the $320 million paid out to victims of exposure at a St. Louis smelting plant in 2011.

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Well, presumably we can see how come various industrial sponsors of the medical research establishment would prefer that 'genetic factors' were researched, please avoid the toxicology angle. Pharmaceuticals is only one division of the chemicals & mining industry, and I somehow suspect they would not be keen on paying out damages for mass lead exposure.

If there wasn't a taboo surrounding being angry in public, I would be a lot happier.

I get angry in public all the time. It makes people go away usually. It's never direct, but if someone is bothering me I will raise a lot of hell, cussing, yelling, and they get scared and leave.

I was hoping, after the subject line, that this message would have said "...Zombies."

Because yes, dammit! I believe my problems were caused by zombies and its about time we dealt with them.

Also, those reports about lead causing autism were proven to be not exactly true in the years since 2013, when they were published. It is very true that lead poisoning leads to lowered IQ and to greater problems with emotional management. However, when you compensate for this, the lead/autism link disappears. It seems that, like everyone else, autistic children tend to have lowered IQs and worse behavior when exposed to lead. But its not what makes them autistic. It just makes their autism much more difficult because now they have autism and a suppressed IQ.

No, I believe my issues were caused by a defective brain, i.e. autism.

The anwer to the title question is NO.

If what you're asking is "does all autism/aspergers stem from repressed anger?" then the answer is ofcourse "no".

Nope.

I doubt that my short term memory problems had anything to do with repressed anger. (And I let my anger out most of the time)
So does my lack of sensory filter.
So does my lack of voice tone and volume control.
So does the picking of wrong words and ended up being misunderstood.
So does my oddity in general. And I don't 'lack' of social practice for I'm slow on that part to begin with.

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