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I had thought about CP as well. I wonder whether his Mother was depressed (PPD?) and injured the child? Nora stated several times that "the boy was fine until he was 2".
don't need to have goitre to have cretinism
I wondered about CP too but that would not have explained the loss of speech, unless due to a brain injury at about 2
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Mar 10, 2017 10:43AM
I had thought about CP as well. I wonder whether his Mother was depressed (PPD?) and injured the child? Nora stated several times that "the boy was fine until he was 2".
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don't need to have goitre to have cretinism
I wondered about CP too but that would not have explained the loss of speech, unless due to a brain injury at about 2
