Big Heads in ASD Research (honest!)

[Davros]

* Autism linked to brain growth *
Autism may be linked to unusually rapid brain growth during the first year of life, say researchers. < news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/health/3067149.stm >

When I read this... the first thing I thought was..."could this be the skull compensating from vaccine induced encephilitis????" mmmm... starting at two months???

makes ya wonder???

are you on aut-uk davros? My 2 (one ASD one NT) have massive heads, ASD-95th centile, NT 98th centile. But they were born that big and my head is huge as well. Can never get a hat to fit.....

I wonder whether they included kiddies with fragile X (maybe undxed?) as they have biggies as well.

JimJam, I went through a phase of thinking son's head was huge but apparently wasn't but maybe it got back into line with others as they got older?!

we pop up on lots of the same threads so have been hunting for place where you asked if I'm on aut-uk. I'm not as have tried to limit number of egroup-type things (not succeeding with limiting mumsnet tho). ALso heard that aut-uk is often rather highly charged and can be quite a lot of conflict between members (sounds ideal for me!). Tell me what you think.

aut-uk is definitely highly charged (especially recently- although some of the more firey characters have now left) I keep well out of it! I wouldn't recommend it for support particularly- but it's good for information. They mentioned the big head stuff last week which was why I asked if you were on it.

Chatters is great for support, and a really nice bunch of people, but loads of emails (so I haven't really taken part much in the last year), and I think membership is imited to around 70 so may well be closed at the moment.