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CHICKEN POX

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I had Chicken Pox,, really bad when I was young, my two brothers also had the disease at the same time but laughed and skipped about eating Ice Cream, whilst I went into fever, a mass of spots and near death.

Anyone else with Autism experience Chicken Pox really badly ?

There is another reason why I write this post, my son also caught chicken pox and since then as been diagnosed also with Autism.

If I look at photos of him, he is a different person post chicken pox, you can see it in the photos of him quite evident.

 

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  • NAS5794 said:
    I've been studying schizophrenia at school, and the concordance rate for identical twins is 48%. Since it's not 100%, it's not purely down to genetics. However, I don't know if any such statistic exists for autism. If it does, and it's 100%, then all the people looking for some other cause, or even a link, would have their answer.

    That's because schizophrenia is the result of psychological damage.

    Anyone can become schizophrenic given the right (or should that be wrong?) psychological inputs.

    However, some are genetically more susceptable to it.

    So, if one twin is expossed to a psyhcologically damaging event and the other is not, one will become schizophrenic, the other will not.

    Unlike Autism you are not born with schizophrenia, you develop it.

     

    Regarding Autism, twins, and the genetics of Autism - here's a page I just found with a quick google search and have only skim read, but looks interesting:

    http://www.actionbioscience.org/genomic/dougherty.html

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  • NAS5794 said:
    I've been studying schizophrenia at school, and the concordance rate for identical twins is 48%. Since it's not 100%, it's not purely down to genetics. However, I don't know if any such statistic exists for autism. If it does, and it's 100%, then all the people looking for some other cause, or even a link, would have their answer.

    That's because schizophrenia is the result of psychological damage.

    Anyone can become schizophrenic given the right (or should that be wrong?) psychological inputs.

    However, some are genetically more susceptable to it.

    So, if one twin is expossed to a psyhcologically damaging event and the other is not, one will become schizophrenic, the other will not.

    Unlike Autism you are not born with schizophrenia, you develop it.

     

    Regarding Autism, twins, and the genetics of Autism - here's a page I just found with a quick google search and have only skim read, but looks interesting:

    http://www.actionbioscience.org/genomic/dougherty.html

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