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11:06pm March 18, 2013

➸ Ehlers-Danlos And Autism

feliscorvus:

not-allistic:

WrongPlanet link with a lot of outgoing links.

For some reason, hypermobility is correlated with autism.

That’s not to say it IS autism, or is caused by autism. I have no idea why this is true or if Ehlers-Danlos is itself more common or anything else.

Yeah, I’ve noticed this correlation as well, albeit only anecdotally. Obviously it’s possible for someone to be either autistic OR hypermobile, but there does seem to be a bit of a Venn-diagram overlap area containing a lot of people who are both. Self included, though I’ve only been formally diagnosed with ASD and not with any specific hypermobility syndrome. There also seems to be a correlation between hypermobility and autonomic weirdness/movement disorders. Would be interesting to see studies on this stuff and how it distributes in families, etc.

For all I dislike Tony Attwood, he said he uses hypermobility in his screenings. As in anyone hypermobility gets automatically looked at closer for autism. I hadn’t been dxed when I first read that though. It was in his old paperback book not the new huge one.