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When I was told I may have Asperger's, I thought it fair to tell my dad. I even tried to point him at the site by wikipedia and I've also tried to explain it to him. His response to that was. "I don't need to look at it because you've got it" and "This incident when you were 2 did not happen"
According to my doctor there is a record of me sustaining a head injury at an early age, maybe 1 year old (which I think he must be on about)
Me being me, decided to question him about it, so I asked "Were you working when I was at this age?" and he said he was a bus driver, so yes. That was all I needed to hear, that would've left just me, my sister and older brother (probably at school) with my mother. The only with my father's comment was that is really annoyed me so I could only say to him, "Well, I can't stop you from having an opinion"
I was just wondering if anyone else has gone for a head scan/MRI scan or anything similar towards a diagnosis?
I've still got to make the appointment and that should happen in the next week or so. Any comments welcome

had an accident at early age to maybe thats my cause of aspie

Hey ... me too! I can still see the scar on my head from where my sister hit my with a rock. Is it just a coincidence, or am I an an Aspie because I'm dain bramaged ... ?

I can't tell my sister ... it'd kill her!

I fall down the stair when i was 1. i had my nose and chin open.. Do you think there is a link?

I fell down the stairs several times before I was 5 and had a netball post dropped on my head when I was 10.

I only found out about the "accident" a couple years ago from the Adult Learning Disability place...

Maybe we DO know where ASD comes from after all

Wow... me too, fell down the stairs in a baby roller when I was an infant, cut my head open a few times as a kid needing stitches, 1 bad concussion as a kid, not too long ago I had a real bad concusion when I got my butt kicked real bad in a fight, dents in your head... are not fun.

The only thing that happened in my case is that my mom had a stressful pregnancy with me and labor was induced (I was a week late). My uncle that we all suspect has ASD was born breech and my son inhaled meconium at birth and was sent to NICU immediately. It could have had something to do with all of that and here I thought that it may have been genetic! Maybe not, who really knows.

I was premature by five week.

My parents recall me falling off the monkey bars when I was really little, around mid-to-late 80's, and that I needed a cast for my arm. Strangely, I do not recall that happening, but strangely, I know it happened, and it was not my sister's fault because I think it happened before she was born.

Consider that childhood is an extremely injury-prone period. Most children will break bones; most will bruise their heads... Brain injury can decrease general function (among other things) but it would have to be extremely lucky to produce the exact symptoms of AS, because the differences between AS and NT are in many different places all over the brain. Anything that would cause widespread injury like that would probably also cause a great deal more dysfunction than AS. I mean, you might get the inability to speak from a brain injury, or you might lose the ability to recognize faces, or the ability to read and empathize with emotions, or become physically clumsy, or be unable to filter your senses properly... but ALL of those? At one time? Without damaging anything else? In the same pattern as 1 in 150 people? Not likely.

baseball bat to the forehead in grade one

was the site of impact near your forehead? damage to the frontal lobes and prefrontal cortex can cause symptoms very similar to many aspects of as.

I never hit my head hard enough when little (nothing recorded, nor told to me). I've been in a couple of car accidents that shook my brain, but they were all post-puberty.

I never made much eye contact after birth (according to my mother). So, the ASD has always been with me.