Any connection with mouth abnormalities ?

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Is there any connection with mouth abnormalities ? When I was a child/teenager I was frequently being told to shut my mouth. I find it difficult to have my mouth completely shut . It feels like I can't breathe and I get quite anxious.

I have coordination issues with my mouth. Coordination issues often accompany autism.

a. Mis-aligned teeth and jaws are common in the general population.
b. People with ASDs are part of the general population.
: : Mis-aligned teeth and jaws are common in people with ASDs.

People with ASDs have no monopoly on this issue.

I assume that you mean folks meant that literally.
That they weren't referring to a habit you had of talking too much when they would tell you to "shut your mouth".

It could be that. A mouth abnormality.

Or it could be what I had, which was a nose abnormality.

Throughout my childhood I was given grief for not closing my mouth while chewing, for not being able to swim right, and "to breath through your nose, and not through your mouth".

At the same time all through my childhood I had sense that god just did not stick my nose on right (one nostril would fill up with boogers, while the other didn't).

Finnally around thirty the family doctor told me that I had a "deviated septum" (the septum is that thing that seperates your nostrils). For many people a deviated septum is too minor a thing to worry about, but he told me that "mine was the worst case he had ever seen in his whole practice". Thank you ...grown ups! For taking so long to tell me that!

Anyway I got the operation, and had it fixed. And it made life easier afterward as well as explaining a lot about my childhood.