[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Let me know if he catches a cold or something and how fast it clears up, I have a theory... You know how children catch things? And as always, follow your normal course of healthcare with your child--please do not withhold it!

All I want to know is the time he comes down with symptoms, what was his mental state, then when the issue became resolved to "normal" (with or without direct medical intervention). You can PM me.

It could be a cold, a scrape or bruise, cut, boil or sty--anything--so if he scrapes his knee, and you put neosporin on it, how long did it take to completely heal to relatively normalcy?

SPECULATION: Are there immune system problems in autism?

Off the top of my head, it seems like he usually moves through colds and other illnesses pretty fast, although like me, he's a had a runny nose for a week or so now. Other than that, he doesn't get sick that often.

This summer he cut his knee and needed stitches -- it seemed to heal in about the time the doctors expected it to. (When he went to get the stiches out, the dr. commented on how nicely it was healing.) If I think of or notice other examples, I'll PM.

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Are you looking at the whole autism spectrum? Little MysticCat is Asperger's, and I love MysticCat's stories about him - he seems like such a neat kid.

Thanks! He is a neat kid. Technically, his diagnosis is high functioning autism. Although even the professionals often use HFA and and Asperger's interchangeably and we find it's often easier to use Asperger's because more people understand what it is, there is a technical diagnostic difference.