Fever & Autism

Someone gave us some interesting info the other day, connecting fever with increased normalcy in autistic children. For some reason, the study showed that autistic children running a fever will dramatically reduce the autistic symptoms that they normally show. "The change involved things like longer concentration spans, more talking, more eye contact and better overall reactions with adults and other children."http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22080089/
We had put this tidbit into the back of our minds until this morning, when Dawson crawled into bed, as he usually does, and I immediately noticed that his body was quite warm. It felt like a fever. But here's the interesting thing; he was much more alert than normal, especially for 7:00am. He was also saying sentences more clearly, and speaking words with a seemingly better memory (and as you know, autistic children already have an incredible picture memory). Interesting info to say the least. Now if only fevers weren't a bad thing.....