monjanse
Butterfly
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Age: 27
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Location: Norway
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 Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:17 am Post subject: Autism and epilepsy |
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| I have no epilepsy, but i have epileptic activity in my brain, and i had abcence epilepsy as a child. Do people with autism and aspergers have more epilepsy? |
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btbnnyr
Rabbit In Cat's Clothing
Joined: May 19, 2011
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Location: Lost Angleles Carmen Santiago
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Epilepsy and seizures are moar common in autism. The figure that I have read in the scientific literature is that 30% of autistic people have some kind of significant seizure activity during their lives. That does not mean that 30% of autistic people have epilepsy, just seizures at some point in their lives and abnormal epileptiform EEGs. I am not sure what percentage have epilepsy. There is a hypothesis that autism is caused by an imbalance of excitation and inhibition in the brain, and that the increased incidence of seizures and epilepsy in autism is also caused by increased excitation and decreased inhibition.
I had full-body head-banging seizures in my sleep during my late teens and early twenties, but not anymore. |
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persian85033
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Age: 26
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Location: Phoenix
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:41 am Post subject: |
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I have both epilepsy and AS.
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lostgirl1986
There's a party in my head.
Joined: Feb 29, 2012
Age: 26
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I've known a lot of people who have Asperger's who also suffer from seizures now and again. I think it is more common. |
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brickmack
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Joined: Mar 19, 2012
Posts: 183
Location: Indiana, USA
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| My dad had epilepsy as a kid, and I'm pretty sure he is somewhere on the spectrum. |
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flailure
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:08 am Post subject: |
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I had some pretty significant seizure activity as a kid, but nothing since my high school days.
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