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Originally Posted by Undertoad
- Some autistic behavior is the result of pain, and not of a non-painful neurological dysfunction, and some is the result of pain plus other, non-painful problems, neurological or otherwise?
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This one, plus 'some behaviors are a result of neurological dysfunction and not related to pain at all.' My mistake was in listing specific symptoms that can be a result of pain (head-banging, screaming, posturing) and forgetting that not everyone knows the entire set of symptoms and would understand this was merely a few of them.
One of my children has/had obvious gut pain. The other does not seem to, but I can't ask her because she doesn't talk. (Some autism mothers have also reported that their older children, even once they learned to talk, didn't tell anyone about their moderate levels of pain until much later because at some point they had decided it was normal, that everyone felt this way.) Both have neurological symptoms beyond the pain, which we are working to address through other known causes. It is possible we will never know all the causes of the neurological damage; or that we will, but be unable to totally repair the damage; or that we can repair it, but will only be able to maintain that level with a steady dose of drugs and supplements to address permanent underlying disorders. I don't know. The only thing I fundamentally do not believe is that this is a wholly genetic condition that they were born with from day one. The neurons were working, and then they stopped working.