Absence Seizures anyone??? We suspected absence seizures in Keira but they were ruled out by an EEG.  But this was only a 45 minute EEG, and not the VEEG I keep seeing written about here.  Maisy also zones out, stares straight ahead or straight through you, several times per day.  We didn't have her tested since the girls are identical, but may do so in the future.  I hope you get some answers for your daughter.thanks for sharing the article. However my daughter does not fall asleep. She does look away at times but most of the time it is straight ahead and it's like no one is home. It it doesnt matter where we are they just happen. When she does come out of it sometimes she does try and attack or she has a verbal tic. I'm wondering if these "shut downs" can cause abnormal EEG's. I haven't read anything about that. My daughter has been tested twice for seizures for what the school called zoning out both times the reports came back as normal. She also used to fall asleep in class even though she had plenty of sleep. I came across an article a few years ago about shut down.It described what as happening to her to a T.I believe rather than her having seizures she could not cope with the demands of the classroom.One of the things that has been very beneficial is taking a break from the demands like getting up leaving the classroom and taking a walk around the school before returning to the classroom. Shut-downs really sound like my dd. She has even fell asleep in class before. I will have to look more into those. Thanks for teh article! But----the only thing is----she doesn't have autism!! Holly_WA39886.0200694444 Does anyone's kids have absence seizures? How was it diagnosed? I worry about my 12y (non-ASD) dd. She has always been a kid who "spaces-out". She's had 3 concussions, 3 CT scans, and 2 EEG's before. Everything has always been normal. She hasn't had any head bumps lately--last one about 2 years ago. She is dx'd with bipolar and learning disabilities, ADD, anxiety, etc... I always thought that she was daydreaming from the ADD. But...I  talked to one of her aides at school and she told me she was wondering if Rachel had seizures and that her son had absence seizures and she never knew it. She told me Rachel reminded her of her son---spacing out. It would really explain things with her inability to "remember" much being taught to her. Her aide told me they never found her son's seizures until he had a grand mal in school at 17 years old. Then they did a 3 day EEG in the hospital and on day 3---found the absence seizures. (he was head-injured as a little boy). Does anyone have experience with this?? We had suspected since Taryn was 2 or 3 that she was having some type of absent seizure, but EEGs were always normal, until we had a QEEG about a year ago. It showed abnormalities in the frontal, temporal and limbic areas of the brain-complex partial seizures. It took over 10 years and multiple docs to finally get an answer!currently going through this with our daughter. To make a long story short, She had an abnormal 24 hr VEEG, normal MRI. They say she has excessive electrical discharges happening at different times but no seizure activity. We have a new neurologist who is trying to figure things out for us. Neurologist WITHOUT looking at daughter's records said quick absences were not seizures. Psychologist says it doesn't matter if they are quick they can post as something else and petit mal can pose as quick and occur frequently, sometimes in the hundreds per day. In which our daughter has "staring episodes" about 87 per day in a 7 hr day at school. We recently seen a psychologist who said she believes our daughter has something neurological going on besides the autism and that we need to be sooner than July with our neurologist. I understand kids can just have an abnormal eeg but I would like to know in detail about her EEG the waves, spikes whatever they are. i talk to a family who live by me here and they believe my daughter either has LKS or LKS variant I had described my son as staring, not hearing me, ...and was told that he might be having seizures. We took him for an EEG and they found the petit mal seizures. They were described to us as the brain going through a thunderstorm. If a part of the body is moving, it might continue throughout the seizure (lips moving, hand swinging...). He may be confused and tired afterward. They have lasted anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. He has been on meds for it for about 4 1/2 years. The meds seem to be helping.    Read about shutdowns here: http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=23827&am p;KW=possum Youtube film of what absence seizures can look like.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE6N0Da8Ce0 Does your daughter smack her lips? I don't think regular EEGs always pick up on them.  I'd push for more testing (I'm no expert but have heard of vEEG and qEEG).   Have any of you heard about 'Shut Downs'?   We went down the whole absence seizure route and when everything came back normal we learned about Shut Downs.  You can google for info. while I try to figure out how to cut and paste the article I have
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