ASD co-morbid disorders, associated conditions & YOURS!!

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Your right, also agree Retts separate from autism spectrum. I just put a quick list together and they should be separate.. will amend.

UPDATED LIST so far.. (co morbid and associated Autism Spectrum Disorders)
I am trying to put together a list of all the Autism spectrum co morbid disorders and/or associated conditions etc..

Autism spectrum "Difference" ASD (includes PPD, aspergers, non verbal learning for now - as seems to overlap into the Autism spectrum anyway... etc..) co morbid and associated conditions

Here are some, can you think of any more and what ones do you have ?

Speech impairments, Clutters, Tourettes, Verbal tics such as echolalia and palilalia
Semantic-Pragmatic Disorder (SPD) or Pragmatic language impairment (PLI)
General learning disabilities (intellectual learning difficulties): Development Delay
Dyslexia (words), Hyperlexia (compulsive reading), Dysggraphia (writing)Dyscalculia (numbers),
Dyspraxia (motor clumsiness), Oppositional Defiant Disorder, ADHD, ADD
Auditory Processing Disorder [ADD] , Sensory Processing Disorder, Cognitive delay
Visual perception difficulties , Face Blindness, Seizures, Epilepsy , Insomnia,
Anxiety disorders, Paranoia , Panic, Stress, Mood disorders, Synaesthesia, Alexithymia (emotions),
OCD, Phobias, Depression, Bbipolar , Schizophrenia, Personality disorders,
Self injury, dermatotillomania (skin picking) and trichotillomania (hair pulling), Substance Abuse
Eating Disorders, Food Allergies, Anorexia, Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis (protein intolerance)


Also is "Executive Function Disorder/Executive Dysfunction" just another way of explaining intellectual learning difficulties!

Last edited by asplanet on 22 Aug 2008, 9:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

There's also obsessive stuff, such as dermatotillomania and trichotillomania (skin picking and hair pulling).

Hypotonia
Mitochondrial Disease
Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis (food protein intolerance)
Food Allergies
Dysautonomia

How about NLD (nonverbal learning disability), which usually comes with AS but not always....

agree its not always... but not so sure it should stand alone either!

I just see that as part of the Autism spectrum like aspergers and PDD, but your right as officially its not... most people I know like my son with this diagnosis, have been told crosses over into the autism spctrum, he has aspergers traits as well... gives me so much confidence in the experts- maybe they do know what they are doing ! !!

My personal list of quirks that I have been told are linked to ASD:

OCD, ADD, Dyspraxia, Synaesthesia, Sensory processing disorder (including vestibular/proprioceptive difficulties), Auditory processing disorder, difficulty recognising male faces and a complete inability to navigate (I think I once saw this referred to as “Topographic Agnosia”).

The combination of some of these resuls in depression, panic attacks, an eating disorder, erratic sleeping pattern based around avoiding the daytime and self injury.

Last edited by MarchViolets on 22 Aug 2008, 12:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My only co-morbid is Hyperlexia.

I've officially only been diagnosed with ADD, but I know I have echolalaia. I can control that one to a limited extent, frequently keeping it to just in my head, but sometimes I can't stop my mouth. This typically happens right after a stressful event. I'm not certain exactly what this next thing is, but it seems kinda odd. I periodically shake for about a quarter to half a second, starting with my head, moving down all the way to my hips. I can never stop this from happening, but I always know when it's going to happen, because it's preceded by a chill down my spine. It happens less often when I'm warm.

Is that what it's called where I'm always trying to pop my zits as soon as I see/feel them? (frequently they aren't ready)

I'm not an expert, but I'm sure it might include picking obsessively at zits. I think the key is that once you get a lesion of any kind, you pick at it to the point where it may not heal for months. That is my understanding of it, anyway.

uck..i do that.....

All I have is a series of symptoms that lead me to believe that I am somehow on the autistic spectrum...I don't don't count them as co-morbidities...just parts that make up a whole...

Firstly I am a diagnosed ADDer..which I guess accounts for my severe executive dysfunction...

I bite my nails and pick my skin...
I have walked on my toes since I was a kid...
I have auditory processing difficulties...
mild face blindness
motor clumsiness (very bad as a child when combined with the toe-walking)..I was the slowest and clumsiest kid in the universe....

I might have been hyperlexic....though I don't exactly understand it very well...i did read quickly and at an early age, but had extreme difficulty with all of my other school work due to the fact that i was in a bubble of oblivion....
I am also mildly dyslexic..can't tell left from right...um...it makes it take a really long time to read stuff....if I see words in reverse..it takes me a moment to realise they are...

um...

I have sort of stunted emotional maturity...I seem more like a teenager than a 33 year old adult....

I don't drive a car due to a combination of lack of confidence...the constant;y forgetting left from right...and the um...
sensory overload....


obessions....this thing with dolls since I was a kid...collecting and making.....singing....since I realised I could mimic the voices on the records...and I think that is how I learned to talk...from having my grandmother constantly sing to me.....


So these are the reasons I think I am on the spectrum....though I don't reall count anything as a "comorbidity"...unlesss the ADD is...i would certainly be more inclined to focusing intently on things without that....

I have co-morbid Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Gender Identity Disorder.

the GID is controversial though. There's only anecdotal evidence linking GID and AS, and the evidence doesn't prove causality, just a correlation.

I think perhaps people on the AS Spectrum are better able to admit gender issues, and so are more likely to express them, whereas NT's are more likely to suffer in silence and conform to societal norms. (I.E. I don't think there's a higher percentage of GID sufferers on the AS spectrum, I just think they're better equipped to deal with it then NT's)

The ODD is pretty bad at times. I simply can't do something that I feel I'm being ordered to do. No amount of willpower or self discipline/denial will allow me to perform the act. I once sat at my laptop for 8 hours trying to write a report for work, refusing to allow myself to do anything else until it was done. At the end of 8 hours I'd written 2 sentences.

Dysgraphia is a big one I think. Both my kids have issues with it. Writing has always been an issue for me, but I hyperfocused on it as a kid, and did writing drills for hours on end to improve. Typing for them solves most of their problems

I have Asperger's Syndrome and have:

Central Auditory Processing Disorder (all my life)
Synaestheia

and used to have:

Hypotonia (only during select childhood years)
Major Depression (not so bad lately)
Panic Disorder (apparently went away a few years ago)
substance abuse problems (in the distant past)

I'm also really clumsy and have some sensory issues, but I don't know if those qualify me for any more labels.

Guess it could be, not thought about this one, but looks like another one onto my long list... I can spend hours doing what you mention, as you said at times only have to feel a spot and will pick and pick for no reason, but often can not seem to stop and often have scares for weeks... getting better now aware of things, but your really not alone on this one...

I totally do this! It's genetic in my family, but I'm the only one in my immediate family who has it.