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I have some mild sensory sensitivity.
I have some motor coordination difficulties and uneven muscle tone in my face.
I have bowel issues which may or may not be linked to autism.
I have hyperacusis, this may also be linked to autism.
I also have some other physical abnormalities that I cannot be sure if there related, for example Hypermetabolism, abnormal eye coordination, the eye coordination I discovered myself several year ago and is one of the main causes for me requiring glasses for small text. If I take them off and focus my eyes together I can see most small text but it's uncomfortable at this point in time.
I’m self diagnosed too but i have lots of muscle, tendon issues. I have auto immune thyroiditis, hashimotos. could be other causes.polymyositis, a rare autoimmune disease affecting the muscles.
You got any good links you collected on the autoimmune link. Do you also have genetic studies on autism. i have four in my family offically diagnosed autism.I have heard that autoimmune problems and autism are linked.
Grains mess me up bad, bad, bad!I didn't save them, but I can look it up.
https://thepaleodiet.com/autism-autoimmune-disease-and-leaky-gut/
https://lupusrebel.com/leaky-gut/
I wonder if spherocytosis is a disease that protects you from other diseases like sickle cell is supposed to help protect from malaria as if the body created a disease to fight a worse disease. Baldness is normal unless you are young. Hypermetabolism sometimes becomes thyroid disease and can swing to hypometabolism and be an autoimmune issue. I’m not trying to diagnose people. i’m trying to understand if it is microbiome issues,genetics, toxins or a combination from the three. I’m shocked I have four autistics in my family tree.(Short List)
I have many "physical symptoms" but I am unsure of their related to Autism, the most interesting is that I was born with a hole in my tongue (less than a inch into my mouth, and only goes halfway down in my tongue), I'm not sure what caused this, I was told what the doctors suspected the cause was (But I forget), and that they said it was the first case they have ever seen. (I was born in a fairly large hospital in Altoona).
I also have some other physical abnormalities that I cannot be sure if there related, for example Hypermetabolism, abnormal eye coordination, the eye coordination I discovered myself several year ago and is one of the main causes for me requiring glasses for small text. If I take them off and focus my eyes together I can see most small text but it's uncomfortable at this point in time.
-- There is something very interesting that I do not know the reason for, myself and my twin that was born with Autism are the only ones to not inherit devastating genetic conditions from our parents and extended family, which would be hereditary spherocytosis, along with some more mild conditions like baldness.
I wonder if spherocytosis is a disease that protects you from other diseases like sickle cell is supposed to help protect from malaria as if the body created a disease to fight a worse disease. Baldness is normal unless you are young. Hypermetabolism sometimes becomes thyroid disease and can swing to hypometabolism and be an autoimmune issue. I’m not trying to diagnose people. i’m trying to understand if it is microbiome issues,genetics, toxins or a combination from the three. I’m shocked I have four autistics in my family tree.