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I doubt this is autism related,but I'll ask anyway. Were any of you prone to having your mouth open, involuntarily, to the point your parents would tell you off for it?

Nope. That didn’t happen with me.

Although having the same urge to, yet I do the complete opposite.

Because I have issues breathing through the nose for most of my life, I might have been prone to and have the urge to gape.

Yet my mouth is so sensitive... I just kept resisting.
Kept my mouth voluntarily closed out of habit, and due to breathing issues I ended up breathing consciously through the nose.


Unsure if it's also jaw related issue or something else. Mine seems a bit weak and a bit undersized.

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I did as a kid but that was because my adult teeth started coming in early and my mouth felt overcrowded. I knew lots of kids with the same problem.

As a teen/adult I sometimes have my mouth open but not wide open. Again my two top front teeth are quite big so it's hard to always have my mouth closed. (Yes I'm goofy).

I have my mouth closed when I'm asleep though, which is why I hate getting a cold.

I did somewhat. But that was due to having a deviated septum in my nose. My nose didnt function right, and I had to breath through my mouth for the first almost thirty years of my friggin life before a family doctor finnally said something about it.

If I purposely close my mouth I get really panicky after a very short while, and have to open it.

I used to breathe through my mouth up until a couple years ago. After having braces and a palate expander I can breathe through my nose now and dont have to do that anymore.

Deviated septum, rhinitis, or other respiratory problems.
Facial nerve problems are also a possibility.

I have both nasal problems and breathing without my mouth is sometimes a challenge for me. I control it with medication.
Whatever your problem is, it's best to ask your doctor. Mouth breathing can lead to lung health problems, as well as specific facial deformities.

I used to exercise heavily for many years. Running, cycling, etc. Breathing through the mouth was necessary to get enough air. Now I breathe through my mouth out of habit all the time.

Would not recommend - makes for bad breath

I breathed through my mouth for years because my allergies were so bad and in my childhood no antihistamines available on the market. Remember dristan and contact from the old days? both super hard on kidneys and etc, but I became a devoted fan in my late childhood. For the most part I breathe through my nose now, and I have been a lifelong user of over the counter antihistamines. I have often wondered if my sinus and septum, etc were normal after all those hard years of violently blowing my nose in attempt to breathe. Thank goodness for modern medicine, otc antihistamines greatly help my every day living