It would be of interest to know which symptoms in KLS overlap or connect to symptoms in other mystery diseases of the brain.

Recently, there was an article regarding a time-lag in the autistic brain appropriation of spoken communication.  It was, I believe, suggested that this may account for the garbled sensory intake by the autistic person.  I have already offered my own observations (elsewhere in the two forums) of my KLS episodes during which I was unable to understand what was being said during my universtiy classes to the inability to make any sense of various therapy sessions conducted to treat this or that diagnosis.  Unlike the autistic experience, my experience was during the specific parameters of what I believe to be KLS episodes of varying duration.  Other KLS reporters have described similar symptoms during episodes.  Is there any connection?

Several KLS reporters have “talked” about the perception that they can predict the next moments in a tv show and so on.  Although no one has made any claims for psychic powers, it does seem odd that “the prediction thing” is part of several KLS reporters’ experience.  Could some kind of time distortion be connected to KLS?

My son has a diagnosis of Autism and KLS as well Mild Mental Retardation…I will say that during an episode that he is MORE muted….although…on a normal day….he is very verbal . My son was put on a stimulant and it only made other’s (teachers / doctor’s /etc) expect MORE of him…I have racked my brain as to WHY he had to get KLS on top of everything else he has been through…he regresses every time he has an episode…very frustrating! I was told that my son was the “only known” KLS Suffer that also has Autism…I assume that KLS doesn’t care who’s body it chooses to “host” itself in? My son was initially non-verbal , with the help of speech therapy he was able to speak. I see that at times he struggles to get his needs across to me when in an episode…maybe more so because even on a normal day….he struggles due to not being able to participate at school and for his therapies anymore, due to the episodes. He not only has “lost time” during an episode…but even when well….because he has lost cognition and we have to start all over every single time. He was on stimulants years ago for the other diagnosis’s and the doctor’s “thought” he was ADHD , come to find out…it was just a sensory over-load and the environment circumstances…once placed in a structured environment and less crowded…he did very well for many years…I guess my answer to your question based on my son’s case….NO..Autism presents many issues that a stimulant is used for trying to keep the person “focused and on task” for KLS it is used to keep the person awake…they still cannot per say function…awake more maybe but only awake not really functioning. Personally….for Autism…I believe that it’s the school’s that likes to know the kiddo’s are on a stimulant , any med for that matter….to reduce behavior problems ...sadly ..if only they would look more at what’s causing the child to meltdown…it would reduce pumping their bodies full of unneeded medicine’s .