Re: Autisim Spectrum Disorder and Autoimmune Disease

April 27, 2007

Gwen,

Yes, many of us are painfully aware of the with the relationship between

autism and auto-immune disease in families!

If you go back to Dr. Goldberg's website and get into the article section

and read some of his articles, I think you will find them very interesting.

As for the doctor who doesn't think one can inherit the tendency for auto

immune disease, maybe he needs to do some reading. I guess maybe one could

say that maybe the DISEASE is not inherited, but the predisposition is,

because the set-up of our immune systems is genetically determined at the

start... then as we grow the environment (viruses, etc.) affects it.

Here is a little article you might like... it is called " Inheritance and

Genetics of Autoimmune diseases " ...

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/a/ai/inherit.htm

And here is a great article you must read if you haven't seen it (regarding

the idea of autism as an autoimmune disease)...

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2004/29nov04/29autism.html

Good luck,

Caroline

April 27, 2007

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Yes,Thyroid Disorder and Rheumatoid Arthritis are Auto immune related

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Wayne

-- In , " destinyrose_32 " <neldatinker@...> wrote:

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> This is a copy of a post I left on Dr. Goldbergs site, was

wondering

> if anyone in this group was familiar with the relation between

> autisim and auto-immune disease in families:

>

> Hello. I am new here and I ran across your site in researching

Autism

> Spectrum Disorder. Let me give you a brief intro of my history. I

am

> 39 years old and about 4 years ago I was diagnosed with Auto immune

> Hepatitis and Trigeminal Neuralgia. My questions here concern my 16

> year old son. He was born with TORCH Syndrome and Septo-Optic

> Dysplasia.As well as Hemolytic Anemia and Jaundice. He has a

current

> diagnosis of Moderate Mental Retardation with an IQ of 43 and Major

> Depressive Disorder with Psychotic Features. He has been

hospitalized

> a total of seven times since August of 2006 on a behavioral health

> unit. We are getting ready to voluntarily place him in a

residential

> setting for a 60 day probationary period. We had him tested

yesterday

> afternoon for Autism. The lady told us that he quite possibly could

> be high functioning autistic. He is very musically inclined and can

> play almost any song by ear, he knows no musical staffs or notes.

He

> has a lot of signs of Aspergers and a lot of Sensory Issues as

well.

> My question is, I have read your information on your site

concerning

> the relation between Auto immune Disorder and Autism Spectrum

> Disorder. I am wondering could the two be related in my family? As

I

> stated I have auto immune disorder and when my son was born, he had

> hemolytic anemia, which almost floored the doctors because they

said

> it was as though he was having an RH reaction and my blood is RH

> positive! I am wondering could he have in fact had Auto immune

> Hemolytic Anemia? Also, I noted your reference to Cytemogalovirus

and

> Herpes and Rubella, don't know if you are familiar with TORCH

> Syndrome but my son tested positive for Rubella at birth, but the

> docs thought it was him picking up my immunity since I had rubella

as

> a child. We were told he had the O part of TORCH. I know that Auto

> immune disease seems to be somewhat infectious related from what I

> have heard. I mentioned this to his Family Physician today and he

> seemed to think that he could not inherit the tendency for auto

> immune disease however I don't believe that. I know that Thyroid

> Disorder and Rheumatoid Arthritis are Auto immune related and they

> run in our family. Is there any where I can find more info on this,

> if in fact Autism is related to Auto immune Disorder? Thank you for

> taking the time to read my post and I look forward to hearing from

> you!

> Gwen

>

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April 29, 2007

I find it interesting that a diagnosis of " high functioning autism " or

" asperger syndrome " is being considered for your son, given his IQ of 43.

Typically, " high functioning autism " is used to indicate high cognitive

functioning; and " aspergers syndrome " has a criteria of " normal language

development " (although most people would agree that is more in terms of

vocabulary development and grammar with problems in use/pragmatics of

language more typical). That is not to deny that your son may have many

characteristics of people with autism spectrum disorders, may indeed be on

the autism spectrum and may benefit from intrventions used with people with

autism..... having said that, I also would agree that it is very difficult

to get accurate " IQ " scores on people who have autism spectrum disorders. I

am mentioning this, just because I think it is important for you to be

researching in the proper direction/topic and hate to have people spending

their time researching disorders/conditions that may not be accurate....

this group is extremely educated in the immune disorders of people who are

on the autism spectrum and you will learn a lot from them\

good luck

ann

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