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11:22pm March 18, 2013

➸ Ehlers-Danlos And Autism

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not-allistic:

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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.

I’m not diagnosed with anything hypermobility, not officially, but doctors comment about it on a regular basis and then don’t do anything… and have been doing this for ~15 years now.

I was diagnosed during the process of figuring out TMJ. It happened so fast I didn’t know I was diagnosed exactly. He asked me a whole lot of questions I did not know were related. He kept coming back to whether I had unexplained joint pain and pressed until I admitted it (I didn’t want to say because it wasn’t arthritis). Then he started making me bend various joints in various ways. Then he said “You’re hypermobile!” And went on with other subjects. I knew he’d said I was hypermobile but I didn’t know that counted as a full diagnosis of hypermobility syndrome until my GP told me. Whether that’s EDS hypermobility type or something outside the EDS spectrum is something medical ppl debate so I just say hypermobile not EDS until someone medical tells me otherwise. Because it’s all angels on a pinhead to me unless insurance is involved. But it runs in my family whatever it is. So apparently a doctor telling you you’re hypermobile is sometimes the same as getting dxed.