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21 Sep 2015, 2:52 pm

I am not one to look for any particular cause, as honestly, I think we are just wired differently and I like that ;-), however, after being diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia, I started searching for more information on this trigeminal nerve. The last thing I expected to find was anything related to autism and yet I found this. I have to say that ever since I started looking more at some of my kiddo's friends. I spoke with one mom who had some issues with her teeth, small teeth, misaligned jaw, etc. My son also has this, although it was MUCH MORE noticeable when he was little...which of course, when he was little, he was much more severe, i.e. could not speak, didn't know how to play with others etc. and as he has gotten older and improved his speech, allergies and socially, his smile is not as crooked anymore. I also see this in my family, some whom were never diagnosed as autistics, but now at the age of 40+, I have seen many of the signs my son has in them. In my TN group, as well as TMJ groups, I have noticed many have kids on the autism spectrum or grandkids, a much greater percentage than what I find in my friends outside these groups...so it really makes me wonder. I can't say this is the cause, honestly, but it seems to me this doctor might actually be on to something.



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21 Sep 2015, 5:40 pm

YippySkippy wrote:
I have a crooked smile. My bottom lip on one side always drops farther than the other side when I smile, so you can see a lot of lower teeth on one side and not on the other.
However, with threads like this you have to watch out for confirmation bias. People with straight smiles are less likely to respond, which can give the false impression that crooked smiles are more common among autistics than they actually are.

That's true! I love when people point out stuff like that.
I don't have a crooked smile.. and no one else I know really does. That's my two cents!



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22 Sep 2015, 5:55 pm

Unfortunate_Aspie_ wrote:
YippySkippy wrote:
I have a crooked smile. My bottom lip on one side always drops farther than the other side when I smile, so you can see a lot of lower teeth on one side and not on the other.
However, with threads like this you have to watch out for confirmation bias. People with straight smiles are less likely to respond, which can give the false impression that crooked smiles are more common among autistics than they actually are.

That's true! I love when people point out stuff like that.
I don't have a crooked smile.. and no one else I know really does. That's my two cents!


Believe it or not, I actually agree with what you are stating here. I think my interest in seeing that something was a bit off began with my TMJ and TN groups and the high number of parents of kids with autism in those forums. Then I started looking at pictures of all my Facebook friends and noticing that at least for my group of friends, this crooked smile seemed to happen much more often, if not entirely, among my friends whose kids where on the spectrum.



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22 Sep 2015, 11:19 pm

Ha ha, yes, I only smile with one side of my face and it looks as if I'm smirking.