A question for anyone with knowledge about fetal alcohol syndrome? Is it possible to have physical symptoms, but not the mental symptoms of FAS?
I have a friend, now her mother is an alcoholic and has been since he can remember. Today, I saw his baby pictures, I immediately thought of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, when I saw the pictures, almost all the physical symptoms that I never noticed anything to mentally wrong with him?
It is certainly possible. Medical matters are rarely perfectly ordered, as in, "If this happens, then it will be the result," his closest "If that happens, you are greatly increasing the chances of this happening."
Therefore, its quite possible that physical symptoms manifest themselves, while not mental, or remained dormant.
It is also possible that psychological symptoms are manifested in a positive way. I have the opposite problem - I did not really show the physical symptoms, but had a few early mental symptoms such as severe ADHD.
If he has contracted a more minor cases of ADHD, or something like that, its quite possible that he has contributed to her personality so that people do not find all the negatives.
I hope it helped.
Posted on April 28, 2010.
