one-A-N wrote:
Two commonly mentioned bodily repercussions of ASD are: low muscle tone (hypotonia), which might cause or contribute to clumsiness; and gastrointestinal problems. The gut has its own mini central nervous system, which uses some of the same neurotransmitters as the brain. If autism causes differences in neurotransmitters in the brain, then that can also affect the functioning of the gastrointestinal nervous system.
Also: autistic people tend to have a larger head, because of the extra brain size (seriously). Autistc brains tend to have more white cells than non-autistic brains.
Where did you get that about the gut and GI symptoms in autistics? I mean, I have these symptoms, but the plural of anecdoete isn't data, and I've seen no large-scale studies exploring the link between a utism and GI symptoms that confirmed this.
As for hypotonia, isn't that a neurological symptom? Like, I have slight hypotonia, but I had a brainbleed as an infant (which likely is one of the contributing factors to my autism).
As a side note, yes I did here that genetically speaking tiny physical deviations (such as a bent little finger, facial abnormalities, etc.) are correlated with autism. I forgot the source, sorry.