It’s not Autism, it’s Sotos Syndrome – and more about GABA therapies
Peter the wild boy, with Pitt Hopkins Syndrome I recently returned from a 25 year class reunion; of the 200 or so class members about 120 turned up. Of the 200 we know that at least 5 have a son with autism and at least one has a nephew with autism. So I had my first ever “autism lunch” discussing all those tricky issues we are left to deal with. What was immediately apparent was how different each child’s “autism” was and that none of them were the autism-lite variants that are now being so widely diagnosed in older children. or even adults . Of the six, two are non-verbal, one is institutionalized, yet one talks a lot. Three sets of parents are big ABA fans and one child did not respond to ABA. You may be wondering about that high incidence of autism. This was not a gathering of science boffins or mathematicians; this was at a business school. One thing is obvious, you can correlate some autism incidence with educational level. You can conne...