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Geographic Tongue/Bruxism (Teeth Grinding)

Goatworshiper

Just wondering if many people suffer from teethgrinding or geographic tongue?

Also any tip on easing the conditions? Im in the process of waiting to get a diagnosis to find out if I'm on the spectrum, but just wondered if people on the spectrum sufferred from any of the above conditions as I do.

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  • Yes, Hope. But I think you misunderstand the way genes work. They don't work in isolation, but in combination with other. So there won't be a single gene (or even a number of single genes) that just cause autism, or any given auto-immune disorder. Rather it works something like this simplified example:

    If you have Gene A and Gene B you have Asperger's, say.

    If you have Gene A and Gene C you have Crohn's Disease, for example.

    But if you have Gene A and neither Gene B nor Gene C you'll have neither Asperger's, or Crohn's Disease.

    Similarly if you don't have Gene A then you can safely have both Gene B and Gene C and still not have either Asperger's or Crohn's.

    So you end up with 8 possible combinations:

    A+B+C = Asperger's and Crohn's

    A+B+notC = Asperger's

    A+notB+C = Crohn's

    A+notB+notC = neither

    notA+B+C = neither

    notA+B+notC = neither

    notA+notB+C = neither

    notA+notB+notC = neither

    Now, you'll see that 5 combinations result in neither Asperger's nor Crohn's (the last 5), 2 result in Crohn's, and 2 in Asperger's.

    But here's the key bit - 1 of those combinations that results in Asperger's also results in Crohn's.

    So your chance of having Crohn's if you don't have Asperger's is 1 in 6

    But your chance of having Crohn's if you do have Asperger's is 1 in 2

    And your chance of having Crohn's overall, irrespective of whether you have Asperger's or not is 1 in 4 (2 in 8)

    I.e. You are more likely to have Crohn's if you have Asperger's.

    (these are just made up of course, the real likelyhoods are likely to be different)

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  • Yes, Hope. But I think you misunderstand the way genes work. They don't work in isolation, but in combination with other. So there won't be a single gene (or even a number of single genes) that just cause autism, or any given auto-immune disorder. Rather it works something like this simplified example:

    If you have Gene A and Gene B you have Asperger's, say.

    If you have Gene A and Gene C you have Crohn's Disease, for example.

    But if you have Gene A and neither Gene B nor Gene C you'll have neither Asperger's, or Crohn's Disease.

    Similarly if you don't have Gene A then you can safely have both Gene B and Gene C and still not have either Asperger's or Crohn's.

    So you end up with 8 possible combinations:

    A+B+C = Asperger's and Crohn's

    A+B+notC = Asperger's

    A+notB+C = Crohn's

    A+notB+notC = neither

    notA+B+C = neither

    notA+B+notC = neither

    notA+notB+C = neither

    notA+notB+notC = neither

    Now, you'll see that 5 combinations result in neither Asperger's nor Crohn's (the last 5), 2 result in Crohn's, and 2 in Asperger's.

    But here's the key bit - 1 of those combinations that results in Asperger's also results in Crohn's.

    So your chance of having Crohn's if you don't have Asperger's is 1 in 6

    But your chance of having Crohn's if you do have Asperger's is 1 in 2

    And your chance of having Crohn's overall, irrespective of whether you have Asperger's or not is 1 in 4 (2 in 8)

    I.e. You are more likely to have Crohn's if you have Asperger's.

    (these are just made up of course, the real likelyhoods are likely to be different)

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