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PoindexterOglethorpe

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6. I have a son on the spectrum.
Thu Aug 25, 2022, 08:25 PM
Aug 2022

I am truly sorry that Asperger's has been removed from diagnosis, as I think it was a very useful definition.

He knows he's different from others, and would not want to be different than he is.

He also happens to have alopecia areata, an auto-immune disorder that causes hair loss. He has the most extreme form, universalis, which means he not only has no head hair, but not eyebrows, eyelashes, any body hair whatsoever. So he's very distinctive looking. Oh, and he has told me that if a cure for that were ever discovered, he has no interest in having hair again.

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