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Kitty4670
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23 Aug 2018, 11:35 pm

Do Aspergers people get seizures?



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23 Aug 2018, 11:48 pm

It seems to be more prominent in us. I used to have them before my surgery.



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24 Aug 2018, 12:31 pm

Asperger's people can get them, so can everybody else. Why do you ask this, Kitty? Do you think you've had one?


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24 Aug 2018, 9:58 pm

I get blackouts if I push myself to do too much in a small period of time.


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24 Aug 2018, 10:24 pm

I thought I was having them. Until the doctor told me it is just sleep paralysis.

Hopefully it’s just that.


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25 Aug 2018, 12:44 pm

Kitty4670 wrote:
Do Aspergers people get seizures?


There seems to be a higher incidence of epilepsy in people with ASD than there is in the overall population. I, for one, have both epilepsy and ASD. Still, the vast majority of people with ASD do not have epilepsy and/or seizures.


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25 Aug 2018, 4:11 pm

I've never had a seizure in my life.

People with dementia are at a higher risk of seizures than the general population as well.


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26 Aug 2018, 12:56 am

When I was in the hospital, my whole body was shaking inside me, then I got I really cold. At first I thought it was a seizure, maybe it wasn’t. Isn’t seizures violence?



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26 Aug 2018, 7:59 am

Not sure what you mean by violence. Sometimes people in a seizure tense up so much they can bite their tongue, they can fall down, so in these ways they can get hurt. Usually after that kind of seizure, they have no memory that it happened. I don't know if you had a kind of seizure, so I'll let other members address that.

I'm sure it must be upsetting to you, though.

I hope you will have a good day today, Kitty!


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27 Aug 2018, 10:10 am

...I hope you're well, Kitty :( .


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27 Aug 2018, 2:37 pm

I am an epileptic and had my first seizure when I was 8.

My girlfriend (who is NT) is also an epileptic and had her first seizure when she was 12.


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27 Aug 2018, 8:06 pm

You can have absence seizures which are like blanking out in your mind and there’s no physical ‘fitting’ at all.


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28 Aug 2018, 4:15 pm

"It is estimated that as many as 1/3 of individuals with autism spectrum disorder also have epilepsy."


https://www.autismspeaks.ca/about-autis ... resources/

I had epilepsy as a child but grew out of it.