Regression

Since being diagnosed in 2020 I have been working hard to accept myself, adjust life to accommodate the things I struggle with.

But I have noticed that increasingly I am unable to do many things I used to be able to do: take public transport, work in teams, work with screens for long hours without getting a migraine.

I was interested if any of you have experience regression post-diagnosis?

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  • Yes thank you for this post. I identify with what you say. I regressed as a small child. It was round about the time I received my dipheria vaccine as a toddler. I am not saying that this event caused the regression however it is very coincidental that I did happen to regress at the same time as this event happening. I also wasn't aware that the dph vaccine contains aluminium which is a neurotoxin that alters brain GABA levels and causes hyperexcitability and an overactive brain leading to symptoms of anxiety and seizures tremors and the rest. I wasn't aware that certain vaccines have the capability to alter brain chemistry in certain people who have the correct susceptibility genes. But who knows it could be coincidental. I don't know. I am also not giving advice or health advice. Just my story which is equally valid to others.

  • This is interesting. The vaccine convo is defo an area of interest given it's so widespread for kids

  • Yes interesting. I like to think of autism as an insidious disease that infests the human mind. I feel damaged mentally or neurologically however you wish to phrase it. Something just doesn't feel right I am constantly there but not fully there at the same time if you get what I mean by that. People always talk about 'the lights are on but no one is home' I mean something like this. I find autism as a topic highly interesting. I constantly get throbbing pains in my head especially in response to loud noises or bright lights. I take paracetamol from time to time to combat this. I even went to see a neurologist which I had to wait a few years for. But they have sent me for a brain scan I do wonder what this scan might show to be honest but time will tell I suppose. By the way I have never had my head scanned not once. I understand that it's not something most autistic people get the chance to experience so I am grateful in that sense haha

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  • Yes interesting. I like to think of autism as an insidious disease that infests the human mind. I feel damaged mentally or neurologically however you wish to phrase it. Something just doesn't feel right I am constantly there but not fully there at the same time if you get what I mean by that. People always talk about 'the lights are on but no one is home' I mean something like this. I find autism as a topic highly interesting. I constantly get throbbing pains in my head especially in response to loud noises or bright lights. I take paracetamol from time to time to combat this. I even went to see a neurologist which I had to wait a few years for. But they have sent me for a brain scan I do wonder what this scan might show to be honest but time will tell I suppose. By the way I have never had my head scanned not once. I understand that it's not something most autistic people get the chance to experience so I am grateful in that sense haha

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