Autism News Comments 2006-12-08
Mentioned a possibility that autism may be possibly autoimmune and a possible genetic correlation of psoriasis and autism. My mother has severe, but UV-B treatable psoriasis and my father’s side grandmother had severe rheumatoid arthritis. I think my father has a higher autism-quotient than my mother though. He is actually more anti-crowd and introverted than I am, but my mother has more ‘own world’ tendancy than my father does but it isn’t really that bad and she socializes just fine, but is introverted. It might be linkable with the other study finding that autistic kids were more retarded in grey matter than white matter while idiopathic retarded kids were equally retarded in grey and white matter (the autistic functioning level my be determinable by the level of retardation relative to norms — LFA = major grey deficiency and moderate white; HFA = moderate grey and mild or no white deficiency; AS = no, mild, or moderate grey deficiency and non-deficient or above normal white matter)
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Seems to fit to ‘use it or lose it’ concept that applies throughout the human body, especially brain and muscles. I bet it fits best with LFA-turned-HFA with early intervention subset of autistic people.
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I think I definitly agree, and with a lot of parental homework and genuine love. I’ve had early intervention, in state funded special-ed pre-school and hardly any autism awareness between lage age-3 and late-age 4. My official diagnosis at toddler age was of ‘Idiopathic mental retardation or infantile autism’ from the 2nd-opinion psychiatrist in 1977-1978 in AZ, suggesting that autism treatment will be more effective than retardation treatment regardless of autism or brain damage and the preschool in CT favoring this psychiatrist’s report over the original psychiatrist’s report. My kindergarten school-psychology report mentioned significant social and emotional deficiency but also ‘growing out of it’ in regards to ‘infantile autism’ in 1980-1981. I also remember blood tests, CAT and/or PET scan (shot in the butt prior to scan could be either for PET scan but my memory matches a CAT-scanner better than a PET, or for sedation for the EEG) and EEG when I was 6 (1982 i believe) but my mother had little paperwork from it and I remember it better than she does.
