tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post629669078464467367..comments2024-02-13T21:31:57.980-04:00Comments on Facing Autism in New Brunswick: High Co-Occurrence Rates of Autism Disorders and Intellectual Disability Demand ExplanationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05838571980003579163noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-70920700956216771522013-08-02T21:49:05.190-03:002013-08-02T21:49:05.190-03:00The regrouping of autsim spectrum disorders in the...The regrouping of autsim spectrum disorders in the dsm-v makes this very confusing. I was diagnosed with what used to be very mild aspergers syndrome and am now considered autistic severity level one. However i do not have any intellectual defecits in the traditional sense i have a very unbalanced 1q. My verbal intelligence is in the 99th percentile, my perceptual reasoning is 55th and my processing speed is 16th. If you look at my full score with the exception of certain oddball low indices like visual instant recall and handwriting and such the majority of my intelligence scores are between the ninetieth and ninety-ninth percentile. My overall iq is in the 85th percentile because certain scores such as my writing, attention (i also have add), processing speed, visual recall and working memory bring it down. But it just makes it more confusing, now that all forms of autism are lumped together to truly define autism. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-47293555437593346812011-01-24T14:22:04.535-04:002011-01-24T14:22:04.535-04:00Autism as I know and experience it and Asbergers a...Autism as I know and experience it and Asbergers as I know and experience it are two different things, entirely... MR/ID/whatever the term du jour may be is the difference. Because this is essentially a defining condition, comorbidity doesn't enter into it, IMO - unless some boneheads combine Asbergers & Autism into one Dx. Right: the boneheads already did that, didn't they? Incidence rates for seizures, while statistically significant, do not define the Dx and can be deemed comorbid.MyTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11154077260562417400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-28352296393237217972011-01-24T13:34:37.856-04:002011-01-24T13:34:37.856-04:00I hope i'm not offending anyone by jumping in ...I hope i'm not offending anyone by jumping in with this information, being quite new to the research concerned with autism but doesn't the information in the following studies point to preformed (i.e. prenatal)anomalies in brain anatomy?<br /><br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18093031<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21146593<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17166273<br /><br />I'm full aware that there must be multiple factors involved, like my son's Ohtahara syndrome, many causes, one syndrome, but in discussing the aspect of mental deficit, it would seem likely that the anomalies described in the research indicates a partial explanation.Eric Fischerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02471331868560587898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-32300837806736509742011-01-23T16:45:17.832-04:002011-01-23T16:45:17.832-04:00While I disagree that autism and ID are part of th...While I disagree that autism and ID are part of the same disorder, I do agree with you that the high comorbidity between ASD and ID warrants further research.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33052404.post-6883060668615286892011-01-22T23:29:59.495-04:002011-01-22T23:29:59.495-04:00This may also explain some of what is being called...This may also explain some of what is being called diagnostic substitution. Children used to have intellectual disabilities. Now they have intellectual disabilities AND autism. Could this population be particularly vulnerable to a toxic environment?Minorityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12834476072596898758noreply@blogger.com