grinding one's teeth and to sigh :: possible symptoms?

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Hi,

I have diagnosed myself as an aspie recently, but I still have doubts. Maybe I am not really an aspie but just have autistic personality. So I am still looking for symptoms (and contra indications too of course). That's why I am asking this.

I wonder if grinding one's teeth (quite loud, only during sleep) and to sigh (unknowingly and not because I am tired or something) could be symptoms. Not sure if I still grind my teeth these days (I wil ask my wife when I see her), but I did it a lot when I was a kid. I made a quite loud sound doing it.

The sighs still occur often, I do not know how often because I ususally only notice it when others tell me I do (and even then I often don't remember I did it).

thx

hey, i'm a self-diagnost aspie too... but when i read everything about asperger's i never heard about grinding teeth and sigh.. being symptoms... but that could be just something you do..unwillingly?...

have you read about the symptoms of aspergers syndrome?
if you need info you can read about it in this site : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_Syndrome

Thx for your reply majedemon,

Yes I've read that and I thought my grinding and sighs could be:

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i grind my teeth all the time - it's one of my stims - and i know that other aspies of my acquaintance do so too.

don't know if that means anything, but it seems to be relevant to your question.

that's really interesting... i never met any aspies... that i know of.. so maybe it's different from one person to another.

I understand it does not have to mean anything by itself, as you suggest here.

I am just trying to add up some things, and learning to know myself better (after 42 years!).

When I first read about the "Stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms" I though I did never do any of these things. But now I know I just have not been aware of it, and I recently counted 3 - 5 (5 if I count the sighs and the grinds) different types of repetitive motor mannerisms I have. Not that I do it all the time or even very often (as far as I know) btw. One of the moves I had really never noticed before, so it seems like I started doing it only after I read about it (or I really had never noticed it myself of course). The other four aren't new, only I did never really think about it, so I sort of forgot I did it.

I grind my teeth a lot, but I always attributed it to my OCD.

Interesting Jesh. I just looked it up (http://www.ocfoundation.org/ocf1010a.htm)

And I must say I defenitely have been bothered by: "Imagining losing control or aggressive urges" for many many years.

I stil have it sometimes, but I know for sure now I never loose control or really have agressive urges. Its even contrary, I am not agressive at all (the only fights I have had are the ones I was forced to as a kid, to defend myself, and even then I could not really hurt others). So I think I got over it (not completely, but as good as). I got angry and have been drunk and such many times in my life, and if the fear was just, something bad would have happened a long time ago already.

I do both of the above mentioned things. The sighing thing tends to get noticed, people make the assumption I'm bored or fed up when I'm just doing it for no particular reason.

No idea if that's anything to do with AS, but there you go, I do the same!

Exactly!

omega, grinding your teeth could be a stim but only if you're awake. Many people grind their teeth in their sleep and it doesn't seem to be something terribly consciously controlled.

As for the sighing, that could be any number of things.

I really don't think either of these things are likely directly Aspie-related. But that doesn't mean you don't have other symptoms which aren't Aspie-related. I just don't think these. They are just more likely particular to you. We all have such things.

What symptoms do you have? Social? Obsessive interests? Other eccentricities?

Ok, I was just wondering if it *could* be related. And grinding one's teeth during sleep apparently is not.

The interest I have are obsessive, if it's not obsessive I am not interested. And answering those other open questions certainly is not an obsession for me right now. Sorry for that.

I'm a chronic teeth grinder during the day.

I swear I'm gonna flatten my teeth out eventually.

My mother grinds her teeth as she sleeps unknowingly (and unwillingly). And so after some years she started putting her tongue in between her teeth. But she suspects she might occasionally have nocturnal seizures because she frequently wakes up with her tongue all beaten up.

Though I wonder if her teeth don't continue, instead, to grind into her tongue creating that same effect...

Generally people with teeth grinding problems can get clear, see through plates that fit around their teeth to prevent them grinding their teeth to death and having oral problems for the rest of their life. I know a few people who have them and they work fine.

Like those teeth guards athletes often use? Or are they thinner?