Were you born premature?

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I was born perfectly the prognosed day, so no.

This might be far-fetched but I always wonder if premature birth causes the baby some sort of PTSD in addition to physiological underdevelopment. I picture the baby is content doing its thing in the womb and suddenly taken out before its brain is expecting to be born. Maybe the world is cold and bright and noisy (all the things we generally hate), and the baby wants to retreat away from all the humans without being touched a lot (ASD social issues). To that extent I wonder if premature babies are more prone to subconscious or developmental PTSD.

I know that's far-fetched but that's how I feel about the world, and I wasn't even premature.

In your case with the placental problems (abruption?) you may have been suffering even longer in an uncomfortable or unhealthy environment.

It's good that your mother's doctors discovered this and got you out ASAP.

Nearly two weeks late

It's never an ideal thing to be born premature----but, as many people know, many people born premature live full, viable lives.

I was born three days late.

No, I wasn't born premature by any means, luckily... but on the other hand, there were indeed at some point some complications when my mother was giving birth to me, at the late stage of the labor - in other words, I couldn't get out and the midwife had to... jump onto my mom's belly to squeeze my out by force Once I was told by some physiotherapist (whom I was seeing then about some other health problems a couple of years ago) that it could contribute to my SI issues and dyspraxia. Also some aspie interlocutor of mine stated once that it could also lead to my very bad case of ADD as well.

I was not born premature.

My son and I were both full-term. We are both on the spectrum.

I'm not.

My NT sister is.

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Nope, at least I don't think so because it has never been mentioned and I was a big baby.

To the best of my knowledge, the only thing at all unusual about my birth and my mom’s pregnancy was that she had preeclampsia near the end of it.