Autism News Comments 2006-12-29
I definitly agree that autism is genetic. I also would agree that it requires a complex combination of genes that can come from both parents in varying proportions.
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This kid ‘may’ be demon posessed because of the involvement of spirts in his psychosis. I think he is only schizophrenic for sure. Asperger’s is questionable. Antipsychotics ARE mind-altering. And very expensive (At least $500 per bottle). And they fry your motor cortex slowly over time (brain-fry like weed and booze).
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I have a large head and so does my mother. My autism was ‘infantile’ / ‘early-infantile’ / ‘non-regressive’ (signs of autism from birth and/or never develop skills in the first place) rather than ‘regressive’ (develop some skills but then lose them at around 18mos). My brain is probably hyper-aboundant in white matter (interconnected pathways of pre-formed knowledge) to make up for the gray-matter difficiency, very much like a blind person will hyper-develop autditory and tactile skills with the unusued visual brain-space.
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Identical twins, both autistic paper-thing hoarders (apparently the non-filtering type because they don’t appear to be badly affected when their hoard attacked). One torches the hoard futzing with a lighter. They panic and one gets killed by the smoke. The other will be fatally traumatized (loss of identical twin brother, possibly the only social connection, and being the cause of it all) and will probably in the nuthouse for the rest of his life. Sucks.
