Annea Report post Posted May 3, 2012 Hope this is in the right place and hope no one minds me putting this message in here. I have posted a lot over time and this forum has given me a lot of help.... things are going fairly well for us right now.... (i have two children with autism and a third is being assessed) I would like to ask a question if I may? There has been a few studies done to suggest that at least a form of Autism maybe caused by auto immunity... this is where the immune system in indivduals is faulty and depending on where the auto immunity attacks, various illnesses can result. The reason i am asking this question, is that I have a collection of auto immune diseases... (it is not uncommon for a person who has an auto immune disease to delvelp further illnesses as life progresses.) When look at my family tree, I see that on my dads side going back as far as my great grandparents, auto immune illnesses are present in many forms. Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Ms, Psoriasis, auto immune hepatitis and PBC are some of these. There are also several Autistic individuals in my family all in mine or on my dads side. I am a volunteer for the charity which supports my illness and as such am in touch with a number of people with various Auto immune illnesses, many of these people also have Autistic children or autistic relatives, as well as having relatives with other Auto immune conditions. So my question is : would anyone be willing to share with me if they have any auto immune illnesses in their families, and if these members of the family are direct relations of the person with autism the conditions include, Diabetes type 1, Multiple sclerosis, Lupus, Psoriasis, thyroid issues, Auto immune hepatitis, primary Biliary chirrosis, ulcerative colitis, Crohns disease,celiac disease, sjogrens syndrome, and any other auto immune conditions i might have ommited, The reason I am asking, is that my doctor is presently doing research on how my conditiion is linked to other auto immune diseases, (ultimately looking for a cause) he is interested in the apparent link of people with my disease who also have ASD's in their immediate family or on the same side of the family that has multiple auto immune diseases. He has told me that if I can find a substantial ammount of others who seem to follow this pattern, then he might be prepared to look further in auto immune link with a friend of his who is a a specialist autism researcher. But for now, this is just an informal ask...... Please feel free to pm me if you would rather not post on the board. Thank you... and hope as many of you as possible are having a good week x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
darkshine Report post Posted May 10, 2012 Hi - I was diagnosed over a year ago with AS - as far as I know nobody in my family has any auto immune illnesses... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robert7111a Report post Posted May 11, 2012 Hi Annea There is huge debate/research about what causes autism and autoimmunity and huge denial by companies that make medicines. There is some concensus that some medicines /vaccines cause one or the other (or both) that is poo-poo'd by some very high-ranking public service employees. Autoimmunity can be inherited or started by certain chemicals whereas there is a growing body of evidence that some medicines/vaccines cause autism. Autoimmunity is where the body cannot recognise its own healthy cells and sets about destroying them. Something to do with RNA. Autism is brought about from toxic insult to the nervous system but this is heavily denied. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Special_talent123 Report post Posted May 16, 2012 There is no known cause to having ASD. I was born jaundice, and develop Colic and asthma but my mum noticed my difficulties when i was 18 months as i was always falling over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
