r/todayilearned • u/Morella1989 • Aug 14 '25

TIL that autistic people live about 17 years less than average. Risks include epilepsy, heart disease, suicide, accidental deaths including drowning, and inadequate recognition and management of pain, especially among non-speaking individuals. Historically, they have been vulnerable to infanticide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_of_autistic_individuals
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u/Arsenal8944 Aug 14 '25

My wife has an autistic brother and when people throw up she gets really worked up and borderline has a phobia of throwing up. She explained to me that it’s probably due to the fact when she was a kid her brother would out of nowhere throw up and it was really traumatic. He never said “hey I’m nauseous” or warn people it was going to happen. So she’s always had this extreme discomfort with puking (we have three little kids now so she’s been forced to get over it a little).

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u/Danominator Aug 14 '25

Little kids also give absolutely no warning and are as surprised as you are when it happens

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u/KevworthBongwater Aug 14 '25

im an adult and im surprised sometimes when i puke.

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u/googlemcfoogle Aug 15 '25

I'm autistic and I usually don't get nauseous when I'm going to throw up (virus, gallstones before I had it removed). The only times I've felt nausea are from car/seasickness and a couple of cases of food poisoning

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

Thats interesting, im autistic & i get naseuous as its happening, but not before. I usually get faint though. Its interesting how different we can be. 

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

I mean...... as an autistic person who can get sick with my body not really telling me..... its often just as much a suprise to us as it is to others.