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Co-morbid Diagnoses

aspiemum

Hi

My 10 year old son has Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD and Hypermobility Syndrome (Elhers Danlos Syndrome 3?).  I know that Asperger's and co-morbid ADHD are very common but I thought my son's hypermobility was just an unlucky unrelated condition.  However a friend mentioned that it is also a very common condition amongst people with Asperger's.  I was wondering how many of you or your loved ones have these other conditions alongside Aspereger's. 

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  • OCD is my co-morbid issue. I am obsessed with the possibility of contamination, germs and illness. If people cough I worry that I may catch some nasty infection, so I try and stay away from them or if this is impossible I just feel very tense. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, washing up cutlery that has already been washed and washing my hands. I worry about getting ill, death and hospitals. When reading books I get anxious if I feel I have not understood and in the past I felt the need to memorise books off by heart, which spoilt my enjoyment.

    My OCD started when I was 7. My teacher told a boy to wash his hands after he had been touching his dirty shoes. She told him that he could get a 'disease' from the germs on his shoe. From then on I began to obsessively wash my hands and myanxieties got progressively worse as I got older, as I learnt new things about this 'dangerous' world that we live in

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  • OCD is my co-morbid issue. I am obsessed with the possibility of contamination, germs and illness. If people cough I worry that I may catch some nasty infection, so I try and stay away from them or if this is impossible I just feel very tense. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, washing up cutlery that has already been washed and washing my hands. I worry about getting ill, death and hospitals. When reading books I get anxious if I feel I have not understood and in the past I felt the need to memorise books off by heart, which spoilt my enjoyment.

    My OCD started when I was 7. My teacher told a boy to wash his hands after he had been touching his dirty shoes. She told him that he could get a 'disease' from the germs on his shoe. From then on I began to obsessively wash my hands and myanxieties got progressively worse as I got older, as I learnt new things about this 'dangerous' world that we live in

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