@taniaaust1 Speaking anecdotally only, I have worked with tons of autistic children/adults as well as people that are intellectually delayed (Down Syndrome and other various genetic disorders that are accompanied by intellectual delays, behaviour issues etc) and I have found that it isn't just autistic people that head bang, it is seen in other disorders and I have run across very few that do head bang. Of course, maybe my experience isn't representative of what happens in the real world but I found the more severely affected people with intellectual delays, the more prevalent head banging and other similar behaviours are. I just think it's a bit much to diagnose somebody with autism from merely reading a post about them on the internet and honing in on one behavior they mentioned. My daughter had a lengthy work-up re: autisitic like behaviours and no doctor was prepared to make a diagnosis within a minute of meeting her.
We took the others posters post in a completely different way. I didnt take his post at all as a post trying to diagnose another with autism like you have. I think he was just comparing a similarity and that was it. (It reminds me how I often make what I see as a statement and another will take my statement and twist it in a way it wasnt at all meant or even what was going throu my head, just cause the way the other has percieved it).
I agree with what you said in your post and its also seen in other developmental illnesses too.. (but the poster didnt say it wasnt).
**whats the bet the poster who made that post has Aspergers and hence has just been taken in wrong manner for the post as people without this often do and put more onto things we say which werent even there**
**looking at the world throu different eyes** I dont even know how to explain to non Apsergers person how Ive percieved the post. (feeling sorry for the other as I think he/she was misunderstood).
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If someone is talking about tiredness and another then comments people with cancer get tiredness too.. this isnt necessarily implying that the first person speaking has cancer thou some may mistake the persons post and that they were implying that.
All it is is an observations that two different things may be alike.. An exclaimation of the world around us one could say. I think that is what may of happened here. (finally found a way to explain how I took the post

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(its the kind of thing which gets me into trouble a lot with people in my real life..simple statements others put out of context.. fortunately it dont happen a lot to me on the forums and just in real life).