Autism

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“Watch Out For Mum” – Wrongful Child Abuse Allegations Harms Whole Family

Parenting children with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes — or EDS — is a sport on its own. From the moment my children were born, I knew something wasn’t right. They were symptomatic from birth, but for years, doctors couldn’t figure out what was going on. And even when we finally found answers, the hardest battles weren’t against […]

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Neurodivergence and Hypermobility: The Autism-EDS Connection 

Chronic Pain Partners introduced the topic of neurodivergence and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD) and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) in our first newsletter this year (January 2025), but autism has been shown to co-occur with EDS for many years, with an early published case dating back as far as 1993 and another in 2011. Neurodivergence comprises a […]