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I read that too. Maybe I'm paranoid, but my first thought was: great, now employers have another way to screen. Maybe not right now, but I can see that becoming something like those personality tests.

The best thing I have found for managing my gut symptoms is Caprylic Acid - it works wonders for me, stabilising the symptoms without any side effects. I am gluten intolerant too, not uncommon on the spectrum, my grandaughter is full blown celiac, and these things run in ASD families quite often. There is a whole body effect in autism, it's not "just neurological", it's a brain/body condition - at least that's my view, but one doesn't "cause" the other, they come as a total package (unfortunately).

^ I do believe it's brain/body for sure. I don't know whether any one thing causes another, it was just a bit of a hypothesis.

I do know that gut dysbiosis exacerbated my symptoms BIG TIME and that treating it has immensely improved my symptoms.

Makes me wonder if the same "different" connections throughout the brain are also found throughout the rest of the nervous system - especially the enteric nervous system stretching through the entire digestive tract. Makes me wonder if probiotics somehow help bridge the gaps in under connected areas or dull the connections in over connected areas. All I know is probiotics help reduce/improve symptoms significantly. I'm just playing guessing games as to how.

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Excellent book by Temple Grandin. 'The Autistic Brian - Thinking Across the Spectrum.'

Perhaps Brian the dog in Family Guy should read it. (Sorry, couldn't resist).

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never saw "family guy" - is that "dog" anything like "Peabody"?

He's the most aspergian dog around, at least in the media! Don't know the one you mentioned, sorry AB. (Stewie could be HFA too!! !)

I have been saying this for years. The autopsies done on autistics at least confirmed some of this theory. There really is a different wiring.

Peabody and boy were characters on the old rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. Peabody was a genius IQ dog.

He's a pretentious intellectual, rather than an Aspie, IMO.

Remembered this thread a while back and looked it up for reference.

A bit of a long shot, but I miiiight need MRI scans of my brain to prove it's ASD wiring. I've put some feelers out to a couple of friends in the medical community to see if I might just be able to negotiate said scans for free via one of their contacts or a University research hospital. If not, and I Need them, well.. there's an MRI clinic a few blocks away from my house & worst case scenario if I Need MRI brain scans to prove my ASD brain wiring, then I might just have to pay for them - which wouldn't be so terrible, anyways, because then I'd take the files and have them blown up and printed, framed, and hang them on my wall.

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There is no scan that can detect autism.

Diffusion-tensor-imaging (or "brain fiber tracking") maybe, but that's still only a research-level technology AFAIK.

I guess also maybe fMRI? but I've read stories of that being used in ways that aren't actually valid, so you have to be careful (IOW, understand the statistcs & limitations for yourself).