Does Your Child Have a History of Autism and Seizures?

by Alin S If your child has a history of autism, then you will want to watch for one of the more serious symptoms: seizures. The first thing that yo

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If your child has a history of autism, then you will want to watch for one of the more serious symptoms: seizures. The first thing that you will have to learn if your autistic child experiences seizures is how to recognize an emergency. The following conditions make a seizure an emergency:

- If the seizure lasts more than 5 minutes, or if there are several seizures in a row without a full recovery occurring between them.

- Breathing difficulty that persists. Though it is common for an autistic child to look as though he or she has briefly stopped breathing during the seizure, breathing should quickly resume.

- If there are any injuries sustained during the seizure.

- Confusion or unconsciousness that persists.

- If it is your child's first seizure.

- If your child has a history of seizures, but there is a significant change in the typical pattern, type, symptoms, or length of the seizure.

The occurrence of autism and seizures together is relatively common. The Journal of Child Neurology published a study called "Prospective preliminary analysis of the development of autism and epilepsy in children with infantile spasms" (Askalan R, et al) which showed that by puberty, 25 percent of autistic children will develop seizures. It is not known why the incidence of seizures increases so dramatically with adolescence. The study also showed a connection between babies who experience West Syndrome, which causes infantile spasms, and children who will later receive an autism diagnosis.

Autistic children who are at the highest risk for seizures are those who also have specific neurological conditions, for example, neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, and untreated phenylketonuria.

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If your child has had a history of Autism-related problems in life, what is it like for his/her mental health?

If you re child has had a history of Autism-related emotional issues / behavior problems, what is it like for him or her? Does he or she have a specific phobia, anxiety disorders, uncontrolled emotional problems, repetitive abnormalities in the way he or she acts, rituals and routines, differences in education, misunderstandings, distractions, etc.? What is it like for him / her as an adult? Tell me what you know!

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Autism Spectrum Disorder...some times its been a nightmare to cope with but things get a bit easier as time goes,,repetitive behaviour,you bet,like obsessive compulsive disorder to the max,,,routines used to play a major part but not so bad now,and yep to a Special School.
Misunderstandings also to the max,limited communication,,distractions.....no attention span.
Now a 20 y/o m.

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ANYONE WHO HAS A HISTORY WITH AUTISM! WHETHER A CHILD, SIBLING, PARENT, OR FRIEND! PLEASE ANSWER!!?

I have to do a research paper on Autism for school and I need help with Guiding Questions.

I need two guiding questions for the Economics side of Autism and two for Legal/Political sides.

(The question is: Write relevant, open-ended questions that avoid vague language)

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Answer :
I have two brother with autism, there are different types, high functioning being the least problems, low functioning being the worst, one has aspergus syndrome which is high functioning, he is normal in every way but has no social skills what so ever and tells you exactly what hes thinking, he doesnt softer his words for you and you also need to be very exact with him, the other is fully autistic, he has little Speech and isnt as mature for his age so you have to be slow and describe everything, his sentences arent they way the should be he speaks like the speaking clock eg breakfast please, bowl spoon milk, Tuesday morning 8am, this would be his sentence for having breakfast, he needs to include the time and date with everything and describe how its done with just the main words, he gets very upset easily and when he was younger would spit scream and attack you, now he just shouts till he knows everyone is calm around him, hope this helps

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What are my chances of having a child with autism if my boyfriend has two sons that has it? but none in my fam

My boyfriend wants another child he already has two sons that have autism who are 8 and 5 years old and have the same mother. What I want to know is what are my chances of having a(n) autistic child? There is no history of austism in my family does that matter?

Answer :
No one knows for sure. There is something thinking that autism might be an X-linked trait (which would account for it being more seen in boys then girls). That would mean if autism isn t in your family your chances for having a child with autism drop. Autism effects every 1 in 166 or 1 in 150 children (depending on which study you go by.) and for parents who already have an autistic child (meaning both the mom and dad have autistic child together) the chances increase to either 1 in 50 or 1 in 12 (these are the results of the most liberal and conservative studies.)

On a side note, neither my husband nor I have a history of autism in our family, however we have one son with autism and one without. With a third on the way. Autism does make parenting more difficult, but I would be more concerned over if your boyfriend is a good daddy overall and if you want children in general do help decide.