Nades wrote:
...do you have any other medical problems that would explain why Covid hit you so hard?
Maybe I should've been more specific:
Long-Haul Covid messed me up, the initial Covid illness was actually quite mild. I wasn't hospitalized or anything like that. (It's much more common for people who were
not hospitalized to end up with PASC, as Dr. Fauchi likes to call it.)
I did have auto-immune issues before COVID, but I suspect, like Long-Haul Covid itself, these issues were caused by previous viral infections, so less "cause" and more "effect" there.
Doctors don't yet know why some people are much more susceptible to post-viral syndrome and/or viral persistence than others, but it seems to affect women on an 80:20 ratio, so it's possible that it could be hormone related?
They also suspect it could be due to gut issues, but people on the Autism spectrum commonly have gut issues, and it seems that COVID complications, in this community at least, are quite rare.
...but then again, I have seen very few people on the site who are even aware of having contracted COVID at all...
Nades wrote:
It's very unusual for someone in their 30s to experience many problems for Covid.
Like I said, statistically speaking, most Long Haulers are under the age of 40.
I never knew it effected women more than men. In the UK we have an issue here where women make up nearly 75% of obesity related hospital admissions than men so perhaps that's similar in the US and might explain why. They might also have a weaker respiratory system overall.
With the gut problems people with autism also have, I don't think it matters as much as obesity. Overall I think people with autism are not really at risk from the vaccine side effects or at risk from the illness itself.