Life expectancy

[Misty Avich]

Well it's the principle that bothers me. As if I think I'm already cursed enough as it is due to winning the 'genetic lottery', without hearing that it means an early death sentence too. Makes me more resentful of it.

 

[Kayla55]

Since I was on glutton-free diet my auto-immune didn't detect celiac, so seems reasonable since I am celiac that Im sickly early, celiac being model most studied for allergies......
I think everyone dises asd 3, despite being high functioning I always felt low IQ which became irony when I realised avg person was so dumb

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

The average person just barely has a three digit IQ, 100. plus or minus a few points.

 

[Kayla55]

Well this life expectancy myth seems to be centred around low-functioning autistic people, like most 'studies' are.
Some of us aren't clumsy. Some of us do have a sense of danger. Some of us do know how to look after ourselves. Some of us do feel physical pain and know when to see the doctor. There's no need to scare us all by naming a study "autism life expectancy" as though it's trying to say that autism is a disease that causes you to drop dead sometime in your 50s. It's more down to the individual and their life circumstances and functioning, not autism itself.

It's like when autistic people were apparently in the high priority group for the first covid vaccine, although thankfully I didn't get this priority and just had my first covid jab along with my age group. I read up on why autistic people were in a high priority group and it said that it was because autistic people are less likely to understand rules or understand basic hygiene.

This is why I'm glad I was diagnosed with Asperger's and not autism, which I assume is still on my medical records. This indicates that I'm more or less like a quirky NT and won't be treated like I'm a fragile 80-year-old with health problems or dementia.

If celiac wasn't noticed then less would be known about ASD
So high functioning could eat glutton and end up Candida and over stimm, wi

 

[Kayla55]

Without magnesium have less life energy. Interesting things I discovered in last few weeks on top of what said on forum with regard to vitamin deficiencies has opened my eyes

 

[Roisin]

I wonder about this, I've had those prolonged exposure to extreme stress experiences and I've felt certain for years that this will shorten my life, and still believe this.

I sense it will be executive functioning issues that will contribute to my demise, not sure where exactly that comes from.

Yet when I look at my family tree, the people in the line where the *Autism runs clearest didn't have exceptionally shorter lives, quite average for their time. All things being relative, their stress levels must have been comparative.

When I look at the family lines they married I see more variation in length of life, it seems like a 'perfect storm' situation that created the conditions for a shorter lifespan, usually socio-economic factors combined with massive stressors like immigration.

*Death relating to childbirth and common causes of death eg pre antibiotics were relatively frequent throughout my tree, its impossible to know what their lifespans could have been.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Put this together years ago. A good friend of ours wife and I lost her husband last year just told us she is in hospital heart arrhythmia issues. This really bothers me as she currently 59 right on inflection point. I lost a very good friend years ago he was 59. both him and her are very bright had/have existing medical issues, like to second guess the doctors use their intelligence to control their medical issues. The predictive nature of my statistics bother me, ever since my stoke happened right on a infection point.

 

[Jonn]

I can't believe I have lasted this long, given the amount of stress I have experienced in my life.
I think I got the longevity gene from my mother.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

She is now 5 sigma 1 part per million of passing, as long as she follows doctors instructions, which historically she has not, she should be OK.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I can't believe I have lasted this long, given the amount of stress I have experienced in my life.
I think I got the longevity gene from my mother.

I should have passed from my stroke even my stats said this. Just an out of body experience. turn 70 in 7 weeks

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Just did my own stats 70 now 50% chance of surviving to 75, or passing from second stroke, 10 years after my stroke % 50 chance of living to 80 in general population, So 25% chance of living to 78 the age my mother passed away from a stroke. Basically summer of 2033 is probably it for me. Does not bother me as lost fear of death after stroke.
Just want to plan for my wife and kids and grand children.

 

[Misty Avich]

Again, this life expectancy crap about autistics seems to be applicable to more severe autistics who are unable to look after themselves or have no sense of danger.

I think it's like if a doctor diagnosed you with Meniere's disease then said what the life expectancy was, you might panic and go "what? Meniere's disease is life-threatening? Am I going to die earlier than my peers??" But what the doctor really means by life expectancy is that people with Meniere's disease are more at risk of dying from losing balance than people without it. Although that still sounds scary, it still feels reassuring that there are risks that can be preventable, rather than the alternative being drastic such as "people with Meniere's disease will stop breathing around age 40" or something. That is what I always think when I see shortened life expectancy with autism, I panic because I feel it means as a spectrumer my heart only has a limited amount of beats until at like age 40 I'm going to drop dead for no reason except because I have a diagnosis. But what it really means when they talk about life expectancy with autism is that autistic people seem to be stereotyped as all being big babies that need to be guided and looked after otherwise we will walk straight into danger and die.

This is another reason why I'm all for severity levels.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I do not worry for myself, its only probability, once dead you will not know what happened. the probability for any body else is living this long is 60.7 %, without stroke or autism. My mode is most likely a second stroke. Either way the next infection point is 75, 76. Last stroke was on inflection point 10 days in.

My calculation was not based on me being on the spectrum, but rather on my stroke, and mean age to death for the general population.

 

[Jonn]

I panic because I feel it means as a spectrumer my heart only has a limited amount of beats until at like age 40 I'm going to drop dead for no reason

If it makes you feel more at ease, I guarantee you will out live me.
If you don't, I'll take you to McDonald's, and treat you.

 

[SPEED RACER]

I am 54 now lol