Infantile autism

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Yes i will read your suggestions. It is such a complex subject the causation of autism and Aspergers. But i am not really interested in that per se. I am typically only interested in my own story. If this can somehow expand the wider field of knowledge well and good. My younger brother and sister have it too suggesting a genetic link. But both had environmental factors as well. My mother had postnatal depression after my brother was born and he was mute at first and then hardly ever spoke. My mother was traumatised by something my father did to her while she was pregnant with my sister. My family would make an interesting study but i doubt if anyone would be interested. I've been a subject in a couple of academic research projects and was not impressed.

I just replied but that post seems to have spun out into orbit elsewhere. I will read your two suggestions. I am not obsessed with causation of the condition per se. Typically I'm only interested in my own story. I can see how being born autistic would make it difficult to form relationships with parents. Rather than the other way around with parents causing autism. No one wants to consider that. It is definitely a no go zone, a taboo topic. I raised it politely on an Australian message board and if they had known where i was i would have been shot at dawn. All hell broke loose. My family would be a very interesting one to study because both hereditary and environment, nature and nurture seem to have contributed towards three siblings having Aspergers Syndrome.

Hi again. I did not see the last posts cause i did not know about going to the next page. Interesting about Chinese orphans how they recovered from their developmental delays after being kept in cribs for up to a year. So longer than me. I had to have splints to support my weak ankles when i started walking. Later i was clumsy and kept falling over. But i was also very shortsighted and did not get glasses until i was 7.