How did you get your autism?

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A kind of "Maybelline" autism for me, I was born with it.

Because you're worth it!

being forced to wear wet socks.

My brother got them chonically until he was 7. My cousin also got them and had complications (hearing loss and now he cannot go underwater).

My ear look like I had them though I had none. I also think people who get them so often are rare. My best friend used to get ear infections when she was a teenager but that was only because she practiced swimming.

You can't really "get" autism. It's just something you're born with. No one knows why. It just happens sometimes.

I had chronic ear infections. I was not speech delayed (family joke is that I started speaking at 9 months and haven't shut up yet), but I did lose my hearing. By age 2, I could hear almost nothing. Luckily, I underwent a successful operation to restore my hearing. Once I started wearing ear plugs to go swimming (at age 6), the ear infections pretty much cleared up. I did have one out of the blue at 15; lost all hearing in one ear. The PA who checked it out said, "Aren't you a little old for an ear infection?" After antiboitics, I could hear again.

Nonetheless, I think I was born with AS. I'm clearly a genetic sport -- I look so little like my family that people ask if I'm adopted. I'm a freespirit and a bit of a rebel in a conventional family. I have ADHD and dyscalculia, no one else does. I'm the only diagnosed Aspie, although my mother and I suspect her cousin Alan may be an Aspie too. I figure that some recessive bit of DNA surfaced in me (and maybe Alan) that just wired us differently from the norm. I also suspect my great-grandmother's brother Georges was an Aspie, but he died at the Barricades in Paris, so there's no way of knowing.

I had to get grommets put in my ears coz s**t f**ked up when I was little, but I had Asperger's before that.

I had a great fondness for chicken broth as a child. I'll bet that did it. Too much liquid poultry.

I blame the economy! All that money made me autistic !

Did anyone get theirs from the hooker who took Peter Griffin's wallet

I was bitten by a radioactive autistic spider.

I was minding my own business.
Enjoying a summer stroll along the nude beach,
I stepped in some of the experimental seaweed grown by PETA.
The sub-dermal bio-chemical reaction had mutated due to all the global warming.
Autism Speaks was casting their shadow though a nearby radio, when I fell on a vaccine needle.
Next thing I knew I was at a Neurologist getting a full diagnosis, based on the fact I had a wiki leak.

You really need to watch out for those.