AS/ASD & physical birth abnormalities

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Birth Abnormalities in ASD persons (Mark most disruptive)

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

Total votes : 130

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04 Jun 2012, 4:21 pm

Washi wrote:

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Let's see...

- Umbilical cord wrapped around my neck
- High metabolism (I eat too much and this is "normal" to me)
- Bone deformities in my chest (slightly dented in below my nipples, slight protrusion in the middle "pigeon breast", more on the left side than on the right)
- Nosehedge-warp that made my breathing a bit difficult and might have resulted me having a bit of hearing loss in my ears, especially the left one
- Slightly high-arched feet (had to wear arch-support)
- Slight ear deformity (rims are a bit too folded)
- Slightly enlarged knuckles with a propensity for inflammation (runs in my family on my father's side)

Later in my life:
- Adenotomy, tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and resectio septi nasi (nosehedge-warp straightened)
- I have a slight acquired bend in my spine and a slight dislocation of one waist vertebra

(I voted 'cosmetic')

Perhaps the one common thing in this thread is that people on the spectrum are more likely to have other developmental issues besides ASD. This by no means indicates that if someone doesn't have a singe 'abnormality' than one is not on the specturm or vice verse.

I don't know what nosehedge-warp is but certain nose anomalies/defects (usually choanal atresia but sometimes others) plus ear deformities (lop ears, cupped ears, missing ears, hearing loss is common ... only one of my ears is slightly bent) are CHARGE symptoms. I wouldn't say you have it based off just that but it sounds similar.

Nosehedge-warp - I guess I sticked too much to the original expression in my language. It's called "nasal septum", the wall that separates the nostrils. I couldn't find a better translation ATM. It was bent to the left side in my case.

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04 Jun 2012, 4:31 pm

My older son was born with a weird little bump by his right ear and the nurse said that it was a sign of something problematic but I had just been dosed with demerol so I never got to find out what. But as he got older, it became clear that he had an ASD. My younger son was perfectly formed and he is possibly Aspergers.

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04 Jun 2012, 4:31 pm

OJani wrote:

Perhaps the one common thing in this thread is that people on the spectrum are more likely to have other developmental issues besides ASD. This by no means indicates that if someone doesn't have a singe 'abnormality' than one is not on the specturm or vice verse.

I was born with a developmental disorder of the eye. No-one can explain why; but many of us with this developmental disorder also have some form of ASD.

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04 Jun 2012, 4:35 pm

The only thing I know of about my birth was that I didn't cry right away, and as an infant, I had several seizures, but those somehow went away by the time I was 5 or so. It hasn't stopped me from being able to get a driver's license, and I never had to stop driving and wait until I was seizure free to do so.

Other issues after birth:
Lazy eye
Needs glasses to see in the distance, as well as for driving. It's the only restriction on my license. It's something that I noticed in my 20's, and it's a genetic thing since most of my family members have needed glasses in their 20's, and the majority of them are NT.
I also need to wear shoes with arch support, either built in, or inserts if the shoe has no support.

One thing about epilepsy is that my NT brother developed it after a head injury from a near-fatal car accident. Fortunately, his medication allows him to drive as he's been seizure free for a few years now.

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04 Jun 2012, 4:41 pm

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Oh OK I think you mean a deviated septum. That's not uncommon or what I envisioned with your terminology.

From what I've read the odds of having a deviated septum are 1 in 124 whereas the odds of what I had are closer to 1 in 7-10,000 I tried googling what you said and when I couldn't find anything figured it was rare.

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04 Jun 2012, 4:50 pm

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My feet are kind of abnormal too. There is a very large gap between my big toes and my 2nd toes, and my big toes are shorter than my 2nd toes.

These are supposed to be common traits of someone who has more than average Neanderthal genes.

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04 Jun 2012, 6:27 pm

I have Strabismus in my left eye. I had to wear an eye patch over my right eye every other day when I was a child to force my brain to use my left eye and prevent Amblyopia (where the brain ignores input from one eye). I also have flat feet. I suspect I may have some degree of low muscle tone.

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05 Jun 2012, 2:37 am

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I didn't mention it, I had strabismus, or 'crossed eyes' too, had to wear that eye patch on my specs. I hated the feeling of those specs on my ears. I think it isn't rare at all.

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05 Jun 2012, 7:44 am

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Same. The patches didn't work at all - there's still a huge difference (around 2 lines, which is roughly 12 meters) in both eyes.

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08 Jun 2012, 12:21 am

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

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08 Jun 2012, 12:40 am

<----- Poor vision. Glasses look like the bottom of coke bottles.
<----- Cardiomegaly. Enlarged heart. Had stroke last year.
<----- Unable to get standard health insurance because of Asperger's, suicide attempt, stroke. Can't afford WSHIP (guaranteed insurance). It costs 937/month.
<----- In other words, he be f*cked!

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08 Jun 2012, 12:49 am

OJani wrote:

FishStickNick wrote:

I didn't mention it, I had strabismus, or 'crossed eyes' too, had to wear that eye patch on my specs. I hated the feeling of those specs on my ears. I think it isn't rare at all.

I threw a fit whenever I had to wear the patch over my right eye. I had surgery to correct the crossing when I was four, and that made it less apparent, but my left eye still wanders from time to time, especially if I'm tired. I had to wear glasses at one point, apparently to force me to use my left eye..

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08 Jun 2012, 5:49 am

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

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08 Jun 2012, 6:02 am

FishStickNick wrote:

OJani wrote:

FishStickNick wrote:

I didn't mention it, I had strabismus, or 'crossed eyes' too, had to wear that eye patch on my specs. I hated the feeling of those specs on my ears. I think it isn't rare at all.

For me, it turned out well in the end. Now I don't have to wear glasses any more. My right eye is a bit worse, though, as it has astigmatism. Oddly enough, the extent of aberration varies with time. Sometimes it's more observable, other times I barely notice it. I think it's good to practice the eye that is the less perfect one, and it can be done the simplest way by covering the better one temporarily (an easily removable patch could come handy). The key is to burden the worse eye only for a limited period, until it or your mind get tired of it.

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08 Jun 2012, 6:07 am

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

My husband's ears are like that, only moreso and one is worse than the other. He used to get laughed at, at school, for having ears 'stuck to his head' - they aren't, it's an overfolded helix. He has traits associated with ASDs and is probably BAP.

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08 Jun 2012, 8:20 am

FishStickNick wrote:

I didn't mention it, I had strabismus, or 'crossed eyes' too, had to wear that eye patch on my specs. I hated the feeling of those specs on my ears. I think it isn't rare at all.

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