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How did you get yours?
Vaccines 2%  2%  [ 5 ]
Traumatic birth 4%  4%  [ 10 ]
Brain injury 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Ear infections 3%  3%  [ 7 ]
Seizures 0%  0%  [ 1 ]
I was born with it duh 82%  82%  [ 200 ]
Other (please specify) 8%  8%  [ 20 ]
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04 Jul 2010, 1:50 am

Someone should notify the media. This should be good for a few headlines.

......Very long headlines. :lol:


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04 Jul 2010, 2:15 am

Alien space bats.

Hey, it's a better answer than "How should I know?"*



* I have not read any more than the OP. This is not intended as a slam on anyone who answered "How should I know?" or any variation thereof.



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04 Jul 2010, 3:50 am

When I died from being choked by ghosts in a previous life, I came back as an Aspie! I HAZ PROOF! NOW TO SELL THIS TO THE MEDIA!! !! :roll:

I was born with it, obviously, as was everyone on the spectrum.

Though, if it's of interest, I was strangled by the umbilical cord at birth.



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04 Jul 2010, 10:01 am

Autgotten topic

I was just looking at my on-line family tree, that I complied over the last six months, and all my direct ancestors (the ones I have found--hundreds, leading directly to me!!) have this little tiny mark beside their name. Seen under a microscope, the tiny mark says AS Traits. Then all these little genetic marks got together and voila!! :D


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04 Jul 2010, 12:31 pm

I think it was when I made the Sims genie angry... I tried to wish for height, popularity and deafness and instead it gave me no height, no friends and severe hyperacusis :lol:

Nah, it's genetic in my family, my Grandpa obviously has it!


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04 Jul 2010, 2:11 pm

I don't know for sure, but it might be connected to something passed along on the genes I inherited from my father.



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07 Jul 2010, 2:30 pm

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Why wasn't cursed by the gods added to the list? Who else would make you lonely but hate being around people? :? It is like what a god would do to someone in a Greek tragedy.

Or you could look at yourself as given a gift from the gods that came with a lot trials and ordeals to over come to really enjoy it.


>>> When I return to God, I'm going to ask him what kind of sick bleep is he for creating disorder robbing me of a precious childhood, etc etc etc. I'm a believer, but not a follower. If others want to believe that's their democratic right.


goodness! What a difference in attitude and opinion we have! I had often thought when I got to ask God what was the matter with me all my life I would understand my difficulties in living other people didn't seem to have. When I was diagnosed as Asperger's Syndrome when I was 56 I felt I HAD HAD THAT TALK WITH GOD and now understand what it was going to take death to know. I rejoyce that I know, now, and am utterly grateful to my idea of a supreme being for being able to intellectually understand what is up with me.

You see, nobody promised me a 'precious childhood'. Nobody said I wasn't going to be born into child slave labor or slaughtered by some group or other while a child, or some other fate that is common to more children in the world than a 'precious childhood'. So, I could have been better treated, and had an easier life, you betcha! But it was never my 'right' to have anything else than what I got.

I am grateful to have found out before death, because I have no idea if I would have known after death at all. . .

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07 Jul 2010, 2:33 pm

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I sneezed, and no one was around to say "bless you", so the evil autism demons entered through my nose and possessed me.


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07 Jul 2010, 2:56 pm

Interesting question. I don't feel qualified to actually answer but I was deprived of oxygen for a full minute when I was born. I also had chronic ear infections as a kid and was ALWAYS sick.

Oh, and I was born with a tied tongue. That's how I was deprived of oxygen. The back of my tongue blocked my airways. My very first surgery was when I was a few months old. They untied my tongue so I could be spoon fed.


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07 Jul 2010, 4:15 pm

I suspect it was a combination of food allergies(egg/milk/yeast), celiacs, ear infections I had about 17 of them in a row. Plus the vaccines(they used an egg derivative/product which is what probably caused the problem)

I am currently being treated for my immune defect and GI issues. After 29 years of being miserable. Currently I have lead poisoning thanks to husband soldering with lead soldering paste while I was pregnant.

Frankly I'm not sure if any of this caused my Autism but it's sure made me miserable and sick.



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07 Jul 2010, 4:40 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
sillycat wrote:
Todesking wrote:
Why wasn't cursed by the gods added to the list? Who else would make you lonely but hate being around people? :? It is like what a god would do to someone in a Greek tragedy.

Or you could look at yourself as given a gift from the gods that came with a lot trials and ordeals to over come to really enjoy it.


>>> When I return to God, I'm going to ask him what kind of sick bleep is he for creating disorder robbing me of a precious childhood, etc etc etc. I'm a believer, but not a follower. If others want to believe that's their democratic right.


goodness! What a difference in attitude and opinion we have! I had often thought when I got to ask God what was the matter with me all my life I would understand my difficulties in living other people didn't seem to have. When I was diagnosed as Asperger's Syndrome when I was 56 I felt I HAD HAD THAT TALK WITH GOD and now understand what it was going to take death to know. I rejoyce that I know, now, and am utterly grateful to my idea of a supreme being for being able to intellectually understand what is up with me.

You see, nobody promised me a 'precious childhood'. Nobody said I wasn't going to be born into child slave labor or slaughtered by some group or other while a child, or some other fate that is common to more children in the world than a 'precious childhood'. So, I could have been better treated, and had an easier life, you betcha! But it was never my 'right' to have anything else than what I got.

I am grateful to have found out before death, because I have no idea if I would have known after death at all. . .

Merle

This. This right here. I was unaccountably blessed by being born into the United States, during the latter half of the 20th Century. In another place or another age I might have been burned as a witch, or left in a clearing as an infant so the elves would bring the real baby back. I could have been born in Rwanda, and been chopped to pieces with a machete (or merely horribly mutilated and left for dead) for belonging to the wrong ethnic group. I could have been born a Jew in Poland in 1940, or as one of the children of Czar Nicholas II.

Instead, I was born into a prosperous, relatively peaceful society, too young to be drafted into war, too old to wind up in Iraq or Afghanistan. The worst I had to endure from my so-called peers as a child was hazing and physical abuse - nobody was sincerely trying to kill me, or even just remove body parts. Having AS is relatively mild, compared with so many other things that could have happened, and at times it actually has been a blessing (sometimes in disguise, sometimes openly).

Perhaps when you have that chat with God, He can give you a sense of perspective... :)


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24 Jul 2010, 6:30 pm

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The aliens, man, the aliens 8O


:)

Personally, I like to blame those shiny sprinkles on cupcake frosting ....... < they're pure Mercury > :roll:

'K, I was born this way. It was meant to be. Liking it, sort-of. For the most part. Makes me wicked good at math, etc. Not so good at mind reading, however.


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24 Jul 2010, 6:34 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
sillycat wrote:
Todesking wrote:
Why wasn't cursed by the gods added to the list? Who else would make you lonely but hate being around people? :? It is like what a god would do to someone in a Greek tragedy.

Or you could look at yourself as given a gift from the gods that came with a lot trials and ordeals to over come to really enjoy it.


>>> When I return to God, I'm going to ask him what kind of sick bleep is he for creating disorder robbing me of a precious childhood, etc etc etc. I'm a believer, but not a follower. If others want to believe that's their democratic right.


goodness! What a difference in attitude and opinion we have! I had often thought when I got to ask God what was the matter with me all my life I would understand my difficulties in living other people didn't seem to have. When I was diagnosed as Asperger's Syndrome when I was 56 I felt I HAD HAD THAT TALK WITH GOD and now understand what it was going to take death to know. I rejoyce that I know, now, and am utterly grateful to my idea of a supreme being for being able to intellectually understand what is up with me.

You see, nobody promised me a 'precious childhood'. Nobody said I wasn't going to be born into child slave labor or slaughtered by some group or other while a child, or some other fate that is common to more children in the world than a 'precious childhood'. So, I could have been better treated, and had an easier life, you betcha! But it was never my 'right' to have anything else than what I got.

I am grateful to have found out before death, because I have no idea if I would have known after death at all. . .

Merle

This. This right here. I was unaccountably blessed by being born into the United States, during the latter half of the 20th Century. In another place or another age I might have been burned as a witch, or left in a clearing as an infant so the elves would bring the real baby back. I could have been born in Rwanda, and been chopped to pieces with a machete (or merely horribly mutilated and left for dead) for belonging to the wrong ethnic group. I could have been born a Jew in Poland in 1940, or as one of the children of Czar Nicholas II.

Instead, I was born into a prosperous, relatively peaceful society, too young to be drafted into war, too old to wind up in Iraq or Afghanistan. The worst I had to endure from my so-called peers as a child was hazing and physical abuse - nobody was sincerely trying to kill me, or even just remove body parts. Having AS is relatively mild, compared with so many other things that could have happened, and at times it actually has been a blessing (sometimes in disguise, sometimes openly).

Perhaps when you have that chat with God, He can give you a sense of perspective... :)


With utmost discretion and respect, yes - - and at times "we" (Aspies) have been likened as 'the new jews' meaning that we can be positively persecuted by ignorant beings who just don't know better and may have a cruelty streak.


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28 Oct 2010, 3:05 pm

I was a preemie and I had jaundice when I was born. My parents were refugees from the Vietnam War and Pol Pot's regime. So I'm guessing it could be from either side of the family but I'm thinking my mom being in beauty school when she was pregnant with me and the chemical exposure and stress that comes with it might have caused it.



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28 Oct 2010, 4:45 pm

Shopping Channel.

I was awake at 2 AM and they had this special on an outwardly invisible neurological disorder guaranteed to prevent vibrant social relationships, limit your interests, and make you move more. I thought, wow, that sounds awesome. When they said 50% off to the first 100 callers I just couldn't resist. I was caller 99 they said. I am so lucky!! !



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21 Nov 2010, 12:25 pm

Mine was from bad luck. If it's that inheritable, then why don't any of my cousins have it? I have 12 cousins, and not one show any Autistic traits. Why has it just gone to me? It's been bothering me for years.


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