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Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis ?

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I think someone shared the study "Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis"?

I can't find it through the on-site search function.

Anyways, it may be interesting to read (for anyone that did not read it earlier, like me).

There is a wired article, which is simpler, and comments on the research article itself.

I wonder what you think about it?

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  • It reflects the difference between children who spontaneously display autistic behaviours and children who only display autistic behaviours when their abilities to cope with social/societal pressures are exceeded.

    Even if autism without intellectual disability had been diagnosable when I was a child, I would not have been diagnosed before I started school at four and a half, because I was a happy and sociable child at home and within my small close-knit community. When I started school I reacted to the situation by becoming selectively mute. This carried on for three months. Had this happened more recently, I would have been referred for assessment.

  • in reply to Martin

    Your experience pretty much maps onto what happened to me. I was "normal" in primary school and when I could do things surrounded by parents. This really broke down in high school and has had really bad knock on effects for my whole life. It almost like I "become" autistic in certain situations but if I am in the right environment I can be "normal". I definitely fit into this late diagnosed category from this study and also identify with how the genetic pattern are more likely map onto conditions like depression. 

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  • in reply to Martin

    Your experience pretty much maps onto what happened to me. I was "normal" in primary school and when I could do things surrounded by parents. This really broke down in high school and has had really bad knock on effects for my whole life. It almost like I "become" autistic in certain situations but if I am in the right environment I can be "normal". I definitely fit into this late diagnosed category from this study and also identify with how the genetic pattern are more likely map onto conditions like depression. 

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