Epilepsy subtle presence in autistic kids.

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Hello, read many articles about the possibility of some kinds of epilepsy causing autism in children And it doesn't have y be like in the movies, the scientific articles claim that it is many times go unnoticed. (I have the articles if someone is interested). What do you think fellows?and which are the best neurologists to go to across the US? And which are the best advanced EEGs to perform Thanks.

Beginning as a young teenager, I had probable seizures. They made me physically feel strange.
Though I don't know anything of your other question.

lumy, did you cure those seizures, and if you did , has this lessened your core symptoms, regards.

Nah, the seizures stopped themselves, until I got head injuries...eventually going away again. My core symptoms are not connected.

There's a correspondence between epilepsy and autism. If you have one you are more likely to have another. I don't know that we really have proof that one causes the other. My best guess around why they are connected is that they both involve over active neurology.

I've known kids who have just epilepsy. The one's who came into my care had memory loss after a seizure, which impacted their ability to learn. They really didn't have autistic features. There where some things that they would insist on, reutine wise, but there was always a logical to other people based on what triggers their symptoms. Or in once case, based on the mental age she maintained. (The same as she was before the seizures started - about 2. Two year olds look a lot like autistic kids sometimes. It's just normal development.)

I've known of several autistic kids with epilepsy and or cerebral palsy.

Like Lumi (who I share a lot of similarities with), I used to get seizures but that went away by itself. My autism diagnosis was upgraded from severe to moderate around the same time as the seizures went away. But there's no evidence the two were connected.

Anything of a neurological nature, inevitably, will result in a higher incidence of epilepsy.

Epilepsy causing autism? I dont think so.
It is likely that while researching your epilepsy they found out that you are autistic as well

Dear somanyspoons,
Can you please explain more your second paragraph, thank you.