Autism - born with it only or can you develop it?

[Guest guest]

I ask because when I was at my worst I started sitting down on the

floor and rocking. I told my parents, I felt like I was autistic.

I'd just go into these blank spaces where I'd just sit there and

rock. I didn't think, " What would feel good? " I just started doing

it. That was during the time of my unsafe amalgam removal. I didn't

even know what to do about the phone when it rang, just jumped up and

spun around, thinking " I know that means I have to do something " and

it would take me a minute sometimes to figure it out.

So you think I was experiencing what autistic kids do? I'd just

never heard of anyone *becoming* autistic. I also had a lot of

dreams that I was trying to tell someone I had MS. I'd be somewhere,

like on a train or a plane I could hardly lift my head and I'd know I

needed to get off at the next stop but my body wouldn't work.

Which reminds me, been meaning to ask this. Has anyone experienced

that neck thing? When I was really in bad shape 8 years ago, if my

head went back I almost couldn't lift it back up to vertical. I'd

have to use my hands to lift my head back up. Anyone know what

that's about?

Thanks much,

Jen

[Guest guest]

>>I didn't

> even know what to do about the phone when it rang, just jumped up and

> spun around, thinking " I know that means I have to do something " and

> it would take me a minute sometimes to figure it out.

I have had moments like that.

> So you think I was experiencing what autistic kids do?

It sounds very possible.

I'd just

> never heard of anyone *becoming* autistic.

Most autistic kids have a " time of regression " . My son, who never

regressed and was " born this way " , is considered rare.

My regression was at age 7.

> Which reminds me, been meaning to ask this. Has anyone experienced

> that neck thing? When I was really in bad shape 8 years ago, if my

> head went back I almost couldn't lift it back up to vertical. I'd

> have to use my hands to lift my head back up. Anyone know what

> that's about?

I have this problem, usually with my arms, occasionally with my neck.

So far as I have been able to determine, it is a product of my joint

issues.

Good luck.

Dana

[Guest guest]

Yes, my son had it when he first became mercury-poisoned!

Barb

[ ] Autism - born with it only or can you develop it?

> I ask because when I was at my worst I started sitting down on the

> floor and rocking. I told my parents, I felt like I was autistic.

> I'd just go into these blank spaces where I'd just sit there and

> rock. I didn't think, " What would feel good? " I just started doing

> it. That was during the time of my unsafe amalgam removal. I didn't

> even know what to do about the phone when it rang, just jumped up and

> spun around, thinking " I know that means I have to do something " and

> it would take me a minute sometimes to figure it out.

>

> So you think I was experiencing what autistic kids do? I'd just

> never heard of anyone *becoming* autistic. I also had a lot of

> dreams that I was trying to tell someone I had MS. I'd be somewhere,

> like on a train or a plane I could hardly lift my head and I'd know I

> needed to get off at the next stop but my body wouldn't work.

>

> Which reminds me, been meaning to ask this. Has anyone experienced

> that neck thing? When I was really in bad shape 8 years ago, if my

> head went back I almost couldn't lift it back up to vertical. I'd

> have to use my hands to lift my head back up. Anyone know what

> that's about?

>

> Thanks much,

>

> Jen

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