Can someone with ASD have Dyscalculic/Dyslexic & Anomic symptoms?

[emersonnotemmy]

There is a veryyyyyyyyyyyy high possibility that I had ASD, & I am currently awaiting diagnosis. I also have a lot of symptoms of anomic aphasia, dyslexia, & dyscalculia. Even writing this post was a bit of a struggle! I feel like I've always had them but they have gotten worse in recent years.

 

[Suzette]

Very short answer, yes. These things can be comorbidities.

I was not familiar with anomic aphasia so I looked it up. The short explaination is "trouble naming things", but the definition I read specifies this symptom is usually caused by brain damage. This makes me think your symptom might not be anomic aphasia exactly.

A little while ago, on this forum, the subject of visual thinkers came up. Someone pointed out that visual thinkers can sometimes have trouble expressing their thoughts because they need to translate an image into words.

I am a visual thinker and I experience this often. My words don't always connect to the image in my head. If I think of an apple, I see the fruit but I might not be able to say "apple" or write it. But I could read "apple" and connect it to the apple I see in my mind. This verbal lapse is always temporary and inconsistent.

Could this explain what you mean by anomic aphasia?

 

[PastelPetals]

I have dyscalculia and autism so yeah you can. Anomic aphasia is caused due to injury and you can have a TBI, stroke, tumor etc and autism. So yes you can.

 

[Luca]

Yes, I have dyscalculia and am on the spectrum. You can.

 

[Alexej]

Firstly Welcome to the Forums @emersonnotemmy

Glad to have you with us

 

[Thinx]

Hi and welcome. I see you are 13, so it will be useful to know what the diagnosis is, so you can find out more and understand yourself well. Certainly all these issues go together sometimes, @Suzette gave a useful point about being a visual thinker too. Losing words and language can also be a more psychological issue that's not unusual alongside autism.

It's good that you are here, let us know how your diagnosis process is going, and what you make of it all.

 

[Pieceofmind]

You can, I certainly do. I have my good and bad days and do have triggers to avoid. If I'm exposed to for example too much mold, too much foods that have the ability to move heavy metals around in the body, too much EMF or RF-radiation those issues go through the roof. It may be different for different people but mine is definitely related to accumulated toxic load in the body from either mold (I lived in a very bad home previously, got real sick there) and impaired detox pathways for heavy metals which is with me likely genetic. Those days though that also tend to come with more motor dysfunction I want to hide in a hole to save myself the embarrassment but that's not always the case when you gotta go to work or even worse be on a cash register.

 

[Martha Ferris]

Yes, you can. I would learn as much as you can about being on the spectrum. Put your questions into your search engine and see what comes up. There are also numerous Youtube videos from people who are on the spectrum.

 

[QuestJan]

I was not familiar with anomic aphasia so I looked it up. The short explaination is "trouble naming things", but the definition I read specifies this symptom is usually caused by brain damage. This makes me think your symptom might not be anomic aphasia exactly.

It is also called 'tip of the tongue' syndrome on the milder end of the aphasia spectrum. We've all experienced knowing the exact word we want to say but being unable to pull it out of out brain and say it. We feel the concept but the expression is elusive.

I feel that difficulty putting concepts into words is actually core to autism. Aphasia and apraxia are frequent comorbids and I think both may explain some of the language quirks I experience as an autistic.

Last time I looked, autism research was using Fragile X & Down's syndrome to study us since they were getting nowhere fast studying the real thing. Because these kids are sometimes difficult to manage, the "experts" declared they must be autistic too. These experts ended up with lots of data, but it is invalid.
The infamous "expert" Simon Baron Cohen declared that difficult sociopaths also are autistic so we must all be sociopaths too.

Very short answer, yes. These things can be comorbidities.

@Suzette is head and shoulders above the "experts"