Actually yes. Autism just means a group of symptoms in speech, social skills and stereotypical behaviors. But, if one were to develop autism after a head injury, they would call it traumatic brain injury instead. Since autism does not infer a cause, if a cause is known, the causal diagnosis gets priority. Thus, since the cause is concussion, it would be called traumatic brain injury instead of autism, even if the same symptoms. But, many say that autism is from lack of oxygen getting to certain parts of the brain, thus there are similarities. Autism is also being reversed by ridding pathogens and toxins. Pathogens like scar tissue, and thus would go into the body where there is such, and settle there. And due to the this scar tissue, the lack of oxygen to the area would cause pathogens to also grow there. Thus, one could easily theorize the possibilty. But, I am not seeing people report their children with autism having had head trauma. But, I am seeing that many believe that babies that had oxygen deprivation during birth have a higher risk. This is likely due to pathogens being able to thrive more under such conditions.
There is a huge movement on this Internet concerning autism treatments, and I highly recommend anyone with any diagnosis to learn what they have discovered because many of these professionals who are reversing autism by ridding pathogens and toxins, are also reporting that other supposedly unreversible diagnoses are also going away when they rid these pathogens and toxins, such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, etc. I am floored at how these same treatments are also being found effective in those with alzheimers, MS, parkinson's, etc. Its phenomenal what these doctors are finding out. Many of these doctors are parents of children with autism, and this is what motivated them to go into the field.
There is no clear cause for autism. Autism is thought to be congenital (present from birth) and shows itself when the child is in early development, say between 3 - 5 years of age. You haven't said when the concussion happened, but I am assuming this was during later life? In this instance, no, autism would not have started as a result of the brain trauma.
You can develop autistic-like behaviour patterns following head trauma (staring blankly ahead, altered cognitive activity etc) but this would be as a result of injury to the brain, not from developing autism.
Nobody knows what causes autism, but from what I've researched (one of my brothers has a mild form of autism), it's just something you're born with - I've heard no cases where autism was developed by a severe concussion. Other illnesses can, but not autism.
His Psychologist knows specialists who are studying a number of suspected causes of autism. My son's history was used for some of his research data, as he was a "Blue baby" at birth.
Psychologist named these 4 possible causes;
1. Blue Baby - where the baby is born with cord around it's neck
2. Heavy medications taken by pregnant mothers, i.e. epileptic medication
It depends on how old you are. A small child can develop autism from any trauma. With an adult, it's impossible. A concussion might result in epilepsy, aphasia, ataxia or paralysis, but not autism.
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Actually yes. Autism just means a group of symptoms in speech, social skills and stereotypical behaviors. But, if one were to develop autism after a head injury, they would call it traumatic brain injury instead. Since autism does not infer a cause, if a cause is known, the causal diagnosis gets priority. Thus, since the cause is concussion, it would be called traumatic brain injury instead of autism, even if the same symptoms. But, many say that autism is from lack of oxygen getting to certain parts of the brain, thus there are similarities. Autism is also being reversed by ridding pathogens and toxins. Pathogens like scar tissue, and thus would go into the body where there is such, and settle there. And due to the this scar tissue, the lack of oxygen to the area would cause pathogens to also grow there. Thus, one could easily theorize the possibilty. But, I am not seeing people report their children with autism having had head trauma. But, I am seeing that many believe that babies that had oxygen deprivation during birth have a higher risk. This is likely due to pathogens being able to thrive more under such conditions.
There is a huge movement on this Internet concerning autism treatments, and I highly recommend anyone with any diagnosis to learn what they have discovered because many of these professionals who are reversing autism by ridding pathogens and toxins, are also reporting that other supposedly unreversible diagnoses are also going away when they rid these pathogens and toxins, such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, etc. I am floored at how these same treatments are also being found effective in those with alzheimers, MS, parkinson's, etc. Its phenomenal what these doctors are finding out. Many of these doctors are parents of children with autism, and this is what motivated them to go into the field.
There is no clear cause for autism. Autism is thought to be congenital (present from birth) and shows itself when the child is in early development, say between 3 - 5 years of age. You haven't said when the concussion happened, but I am assuming this was during later life? In this instance, no, autism would not have started as a result of the brain trauma.
You can develop autistic-like behaviour patterns following head trauma (staring blankly ahead, altered cognitive activity etc) but this would be as a result of injury to the brain, not from developing autism.
Jason, RN
Nobody knows what causes autism, but from what I've researched (one of my brothers has a mild form of autism), it's just something you're born with - I've heard no cases where autism was developed by a severe concussion. Other illnesses can, but not autism.
My 5yr old son has autism.
His Psychologist knows specialists who are studying a number of suspected causes of autism. My son's history was used for some of his research data, as he was a "Blue baby" at birth.
Psychologist named these 4 possible causes;
1. Blue Baby - where the baby is born with cord around it's neck
2. Heavy medications taken by pregnant mothers, i.e. epileptic medication
3. Genetics or family history of autism
4. Severe Head Injury BEFORE THE AGE OF 3 YEARS
It depends on how old you are. A small child can develop autism from any trauma. With an adult, it's impossible. A concussion might result in epilepsy, aphasia, ataxia or paralysis, but not autism.
Is it possible they are misdiagnosed ? Just thought I would suggest that. Richard
no, you are born with it and there is no cure for it