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Birth Abnormalities in ASD persons (Mark most disruptive)
None that I've found yet! 28%  28%  [ 37 ]
Yes; limbs, hands or feet misformed 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
Yes; circulatory / heart 7%  7%  [ 9 ]
Yes; cosmetic (left-ear-missing sort of thing) 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
Yes; eyes (color blind, lazy eye - things that glasses don't correct) 9%  9%  [ 12 ]
Yes; problems with legs (needing therapy or mechanical aids) 3%  3%  [ 4 ]
Yes; kidney, gallbladder, liver abnormalities 2%  2%  [ 2 ]
Yes; stomach, colon, rectal (not IBS) abnormalities 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
Yes; hearing or balance 4%  4%  [ 5 ]
Yes; missing entire / partial musculature or bones 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Yes; spinal (scoliosis, spina bifida, etc) 5%  5%  [ 7 ]
Yes; lungs / breathing / sealed nasal passage 3%  3%  [ 4 ]
Yes, but you forgot to gimme my option! 19%  19%  [ 25 ]
Such a personal question! Just show me results. 8%  8%  [ 10 ]
Total votes : 130

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08 Jun 2012, 9:40 am

I always had respiratory and digestive system issues.


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08 Jun 2012, 2:38 pm

OJani wrote:
Didgeeeee wrote:
I was born with syndactyly, and overfolded helix on my left ear, and a urological defect.

My ears look something like this (perhaps a tiny bit more than in the picture, the right one being more affected than the left one):
http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/procedu ... ar_or.html


Ew, oh why did I scroll down! I just saw the ear with no skin on it. I don't think it would occur to me to have surgery if my ear looked like that unless I got teased, it doesn't look that bad to me. I never even realized I had a lop ear until a few months back when I was reading about CHARGE symptoms and took a look at myself, it's floppier than the other ear too I can feel where the cartilage is missing, it bends right in half and the other ear doesn't. I don't know how I never noticed, I had a brother who teased me about everything I would have thought he at least would of picked up on that and let me know.... I can see it now looking back at childhood photos, it was always there and I never took full notice.



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08 Jun 2012, 2:49 pm

I also noticed then that it's easier to smile on one side of my face than the other, I can make a full smile but unless I'm concentrating on it if I smile just a little bit one side goes up further than than other making it look more like a smirk. People misread my face a lot.



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09 Jun 2012, 6:01 pm

I was born with a heart murmur, nothing really serious. The only people that notice are the doctors when they use the stethescope.


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09 Jun 2012, 8:17 pm

littlelily613 wrote:
I was born with a heart murmur, nothing really serious. The only people that notice are the doctors when they use the stethescope.


Ditto.



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10 Jun 2012, 2:35 pm

Washi wrote:
OJani wrote:
Didgeeeee wrote:
I was born with syndactyly, and overfolded helix on my left ear, and a urological defect.

My ears look something like this (perhaps a tiny bit more than in the picture, the right one being more affected than the left one):
http://www.plasticsurgery4u.com/procedu ... ar_or.html


Ew, oh why did I scroll down! I just saw the ear with no skin on it. I don't think it would occur to me to have surgery if my ear looked like that unless I got teased, it doesn't look that bad to me. I never even realized I had a lop ear until a few months back when I was reading about CHARGE symptoms and took a look at myself, it's floppier than the other ear too I can feel where the cartilage is missing, it bends right in half and the other ear doesn't. I don't know how I never noticed, I had a brother who teased me about everything I would have thought he at least would of picked up on that and let me know.... I can see it now looking back at childhood photos, it was always there and I never took full notice.

I totally agree with you. I can't see why it should be corrected either.



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10 Jun 2012, 10:17 pm

Webbed toes, wall eyes, auto immune stuff (asthma, psoriasis, arthritis), birthmark, rh neg, severe knock knees.



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24 Oct 2020, 2:20 am

This is an old thread, but I'm an interested recent joiner. I was interested in the similarity of first-born and male babies being more likely to have pyloric stenosis as well as ASD. I had what by today's standard was basic surgery for PS in 1945 and suspect I suffered some brain damage from very early starvation and 2 weeks of post-op maternal deprivation. My vagus nerve was also damaged so I have a dumping syndrome. The vagus nerve links the brain with many body functions incl. digestion. Until recent decades I'd never heard of ADD but I have struggled with it as do some of my family. I have not been able to find any medical articles on a direct link but have "met" several parents online who wonder like I do. PS is so common and easily treated that its many known possible side-effects are of almost no interest to the medical world, incl. research into the PS-ASD and ADD links. I'd value any feedback or shared experiences.



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24 Oct 2020, 3:07 am

OddFiction wrote:
Anyone else out there with a physical birth [abnormality, defect or handicap] who's either diagnosed as on the spectum, or self diagnosed as being so? I'm just wondering (informal) how many of us there are, and what the most common ones are in the ASD population.

(Mine was digestive - Stomach/Colon/Rectal)

If there's more than one, mark the one most disruptive your your life / comfort.


Didn't find an answer that fit in the survey thing exactly...but I have ASD and they have found some kind of other thing, but there isn't a specific diagnoses for it, all they can figure is it can cause some muscle weakness, which yeah I believe that since I seem to be pretty lacking in physical strength. When I was a lot younger they thought it could be some kind of muscular dystrophy but turned out it wasn't that, but they don't know what it is they just found it wasn't that.


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25 Oct 2020, 11:54 pm

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I was born with congenital hip dysplasia. It was corrected by a brace and I was walking by the tail end of the normal range at 14 months. Not a really big deal. It probably had something to do with my being born breech. I am still somewhat hypermobile.


We could be the same person. Hip dysplasia, walked around same age, still very hypermobile as an adult.