cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13942739
Sometimes I look back on my life and wonder exactly how much of my life and current personality is purely due to the autism.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13942739
Sometimes I look back on my life and wonder exactly how much of my life and current personality is purely due to the autism.
If you don’t mind my asking, what were the circumstances that led to you getting an MRI, to even notice that?
If you do mind my asking, please let me know and I will continue to wonder.
I was involved in an accident where i was knocked unconscious and as a matter of routine the er had a catscan done. It showed a larger than normal “empty” space in my head that they thought mightve been fluid buildup from a concussion. I was talking clearly despite the apparent pressure on my brain so they sent me to a neurologist at a larger facility who ran a series of mris that showed a lack of a corpus callosum as the cause of extra space.
Really interesting! It makes me want to get scanned now bc I share a number of the same character traits that you mentioned. But, who knows how much that is just looking for a pattern/explanation or whether it’s even a common thing. Having some idea of the cost and maintenance of NMR and MRI machines, I don’t imagine many places offer walk-in elective scans for bargain prices.
I was told by the neuro that the incidence of this is approximately 1:24000 births, so not exactly rare but not real common. Bet that ratio would drop if more autistics were actually scanned