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25 Feb 2019, 1:27 am

LoveNotHate wrote:

Dylanperr wrote:

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My autism is from brain damage.

I can't be proud.

I am ashamed that when I speak, I cant have flowing speech.

Instead, people will laugh at me, and detect "something wrong".

How did you get autism from brain damage? Autism usually is the brain forming in a different way.

"Autism" is behavioral traits.

Causes unknown.

I would think "Autism" is common in people with brain damage.

In my case, I was born with my jaw dislodged (severe TMJ disorder) and putting pressure on my brain. Causing decades of mental illness, and damage. Thyroid/Wrong hormones I think is the cause, as both my parents take thyroid medicine.

ASD children are recommended to have their thyroids checked to see if that's the source of their autism.

However, even now with my hormones corrected, and my jaw repositioned , I still have residue brain damage, and functioning problems, which all made it easy to get a 1 hour diagnosis of autism from many doctors.

Everyday is hard, and often I look forward to being dead.

Life may not always be a bowl of cherries, but it beats being dead.

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25 Feb 2019, 1:47 am

My autism and or other neurological problems might be a result of brain damage due to lack of oxygen. I was born premature and was cyanotic.

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25 Feb 2019, 1:58 am

As far as I'm concerned, my autism is hereditary. When I was young and American medical professionals didn't know what the hell Asperger's was, they tried to pigeonhole me as "hyperactive," or suggested I might have received "nerve damage" from being a preemie (I'll stress, these were medical professionals). But without a doubt, both my parents had been on the autistic spectrum though never diagnosed, and that's where mine comes from.

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25 Feb 2019, 2:07 am

Autism doesn't run in my family. With the possible exception of my great grandfather who was an eccentric inventor.

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25 Feb 2019, 2:09 am

EzraS wrote:

Autism doesn't run in my family. With the possible exception of my great grandfather who was an eccentric inventor.

You never know about gramps.

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25 Feb 2019, 2:16 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

Autism doesn't run in my family. With the possible exception of my great grandfather who was an eccentric inventor.

You never know about gramps.

He was definitely bipolar. What they called manic depressive back then. Aspergers is also a possibility but of course it wasn't diagnosed back then. I bear a fairly close resemblance to him. Maybe I'm a reincarnation.

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25 Feb 2019, 2:44 am

EzraS wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

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Autism doesn't run in my family. With the possible exception of my great grandfather who was an eccentric inventor.

You never know about gramps.

Or just got the lion share of his active genes.

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25 Feb 2019, 5:57 pm

An autistic activist group...hmmmm, a bunch of people standing around not speaking, lol. (joke)

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26 Feb 2019, 12:41 am

I think autism pride is a good thing. I'm proud of my autism. I have a very active imagination and artistic hand. I have a unique, pea flavoured way of looking at the world, with my love for pea-like characters. I'm not afraid to let the world see my differences from the foods that I eat to what I wear on my head.

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26 Feb 2019, 12:44 am

I'm sick of pity being thrown around like confetti.

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