Autism Linked to Big Heads

Okay that's strange. I have an autistic son. He had a big head. I complained for an hour after delivery. But all my kids had big heads and only one is autistic. Could that really be a link? It seems weird.

My son has aspereger's syndrome as well and I need to say that his head is somewhat small in my eyes.

Our son with autism actually has the smallest head of all of our boys.

Hi Dani:
I'm a new member just joined today June 24, 2007. Your comment caught my attention. I have two children a son and daughter my son is 15yrs and my daughter will be 2 on July 18, 2007. My concern is with my daughter. It's funny you say that about the head being big because my daughter has a nice size head but it fits her body so to look at her you wouldn't say "gee that little girl has a big head. I guess what I saying is in may I went to see a developmental speacilist because my daughter is not walking and she will be two. She was born with both her feet turned outward like a "duck" the left foot more than the right. Even though she was able to straigthen her feet on her own when she felt like it. I was referred to a foot specialist and he decided to cast both her feet up to her thighs to keep her feet in positioned in the normal position this was done when she was four months old the had 3 castings done in 7-day intervals. The foot doctor felt confident this would help. As she approched 15 months and still wasn't walking I started to worry I mentioned to her Pedi- and she said not to worry she fine. The foot doctor said same thing give her until she 18 months she'll be walking "not to worry" During this time when she would stand her feet still didn't look right. 18 months came and went and my daughter still was not walking. Because she seemed to be standing on the sides of her feet when she stood I took her back to the Foot Doctor and he said her feet had nothing to do with why she wasn't walking he ended up refering me to the developmental specialist. May 25 was my appointment and I don't think I will ever forget that day. I felt like somebody punched me in the stomach and knocked the wind out of me. He said my daughter's brain was not in sync with her age developmental wise she was more like 12 months. I sorry for rambling on giving you my life's story. Your comment caught my eye because he never used the words autistic or autism for that matter. And now I am wondering all her large motor skills she was late but her pediatrican kept saying don't worry she doing fine but I couldn't help but worry because i started going back 15 years ago when my son was her age and their was a huge difference. I know your not suppose to compare every child developes differently but I couldn't help it. It never occured to me something was wrong. Brain wise. Autistic and Autism you mentioned their is a difference? You also mentioned "experts" said there was things she would never do and she's proved them to be wrong. This gives me so much hope, thank you. The "expert" I went too never diagnoised my daughter as having autism he said her brain was developmenting slower than it should be and he didn't have a name for it when I asked him straight up I said are you saying my daughter has some form of autism he said no.

I know it is all confusing. There are different levels. Classic autism is at one end "normal" or Neurotypical at the other. Aspergers is somewhere in between and PDD-NOS is closer to the neurotypical side or Asperger's depending on criteria. I think PDD-NOS is kind of a catch all diagnosis. That is what my dd was officially diagnosed with at 4yrs but later was referred to as more Asperger's. Before that she had Sensory Integration Disorder (now called sensory integration dysfunction).

Did they mention PDD-NOS? Pervasive Developmental Disorder Non-specific. It just really means "Ongoing Developmental Disorder or Delays".

dd walked at 15 almost 16m, sat at 10m,crawled at 11m. Didn't eat consistently until 3 1/2. Tongue/mouth paralysis on one side. Now her delays are mostly social skill related, a few fine motor, and she does have "autistic like" hand flapping when excited and a few tics.

She is almost 10, going into 5th grade. The few people that know about her autism or find out usually say "Wow, you can't even tell!" . She chooses to tell people she wants to tell. She is getting into the My parents are so embarrassing stage LOL so I try to only bring it up when people are talking about autism or to explain her flapping.

That is weird. My little brother has aspbergers and he does have a big head. I guess they will have to do more studies on girls to find out if this is true.

My brother has a huge head, but he isn't autistic. I always thought he had a huge head to hold all his extra brain cells. But, his son may have Asperger's and my nephew's head is either average or slightly smaller than average. Not that I really am qualified to judge what an average-sized head is.

both mine have smallish heads..or did. Monkey (the oldest) always teases Frog about her HUGE forehead. Ah sisterly love...
Both are also quite tiny so I think their heads go well with their bodies!

Maybe they are grasping at straws since they just haven't seen the real answer yet.

My son, who has Asperger's Disorder, has a head size that is only slightly above average.

Both my kids have head sizes around 98% ( bigger than normal kids)....definitely not autistic.