do most of the people with autism have epilepsy?

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I see clips on youtube and when i search for epilepsy it often comes up "autism and epilepsy". Is this bechause most of people with autism does have epilepsy too?

Some do, but I don't think it's anywhere near "most".

I would not say "most" have both. I have known people with autism and I have known at least one person with epilepsy, but I have never personally met anyone with both. I've certainly never had any symptoms of epilepsy.

Epilepsy occurs with some frequency in people with autism. It does occur with some frequency in neurotypicals.

I believe it is somewhat more prevalent than within the general population in people with "classic autism" and (especially) in people with Rett Syndrome.

i'm pretty sure i do. i have not been officially tested. every time i bring it up, i'm either ignored or told to drink more water. *shrug* but i am on the autism spectrum.

I'm not epileptic...

I'm on the spectrum but have never had a seizure of any kind.

I had seizures but they're in remission

I had mild epilepsy when I was little. Of all the kids with autism I've been in school with, I'd say a lot had it, but at the same time most did not.

I have epilepsy and I learned a few days ago that I've been taking the wrong anti-seizure medication for many years now. However, I'll be taken off Carbatrol completely by this summer.

My brother, who is autistic and developmentally disabled, has seizures. I don't know if it's epilepsy that he has, but he definitely has a seizure disorder. He has to take medication for it.

I have no memory of ever having seizures, but my father says I did when I was a very young child. I have never taken any epilepsy medicine, and have not had seizures since that period that my father remembers, but that I don't recall. I am in my mid 50s now. Since I have gone through over 5 decades without seizures, and with no personal memory of such a condition, I qualify as not being epileptic. Apparently, it was a brief phase I went through, and then outgrew. Unfortunately, my Asperger's is a lifelong condition.

I NEVER had siezures and do not have epilepsy, not even as a teen or during my regression when I was 1. However, I am a potential carrier for a very serious and fatal form of epilepsy known as Lafora disease because I have Mediterranean ancestry (I am part Greek, and part Lebanese. My great grandparents were from Spain, France, and Italy) although Lafora disease has nothing to do with autism. The fact that I have a condition that associates a heightened risk of epilepsy (Autism), might be suspected to me as a symptom of being a carrier for Lafora and other serious neurological disorders that I might be a potential carrier of like Tay-Sachs, Sandhoff, and Fragile X. The fact that the time when the most people with autism or Aspergers have epilepsy also happens to be the time that symptoms of Lafora starts. They time is the teenage years. So, all of what I just said could mean to me that my situation in the way I thought with this topic could be in some way like how of those people who are Cystic Fibrosis carriers have asthma. Tough it is true that people who are carriers of genetic conditions do not show symptons or hints, this is not always true.

I don't have epilepsy