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Does Sexual Abuse Play a Causative Role in Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in Childhood? A Help Screaming from Internet

Stefan Bittmann*, Elisabeth Luchter, Gloria Villalon 
Department of Pediatrics, Medical and Finance Center Epe, Gronau, Germany 
*Corresponding author: Stefan Bittmann, Head of Ped Mind Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Medical and    Finance Center Epe, Hindenbrugring 4, D-48599 Gronau, Germany. Fax: +49256597324; Email: stefanbittmann@gmx.de 
Received Date: 24 September, 2018; Accepted Date: 27 September, 2018; Published Date: 09 October, 2018

Citation: Bittman S, Luchter E, Villalon G (2018) Does Sexual Abuse Play a Causative Role in Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in Childhood? A Help Screaming from Internet. J Perina Clin Pediatr: JPCP-104. DOI: 10.29011/ JPCP-104. 100004


Commentary 
In April and July 2018 two internet emails reached my person from a 59 years old women from Alabama, USA, and 3 months later from a 67 years old women from England independently. I was very surprised, as an author of AIWS in children, to read the impressions of these two older women in childhood. Both described sexual abuse in childhood: one with 6-8 years of life, the other one in the years 5-11. Both, independently, described horrific experience with Alice in Wonderland seizures in this period of her childhood. After self-reflection of themselves many years later, they contacted a doctor in the internet to inform about that. Seizures and sexual abuse stood in close chronological relation. 
Sexual abuse in relation to Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in children was not mentioned or published yet in world literature. The personal experience of these two women reveal a new curious aspect of finding the real origin of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in children.
Further patients with similar experiences in childhood should be found and analyzed in this way.
 




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