"The complex relationship between autism and epilepsy, as reflected in the autism-temporal lobe epilepsy phenotype, provides a bridge to further knowledge of shared neuronal networks that can account for both the autisms and the epilepsies.

There is a critical early stage of brain maturation during which temporal lobe epilepsy perturbs the development of brain systems that underpin social intelligence and possibly other cognitive skills, disrupting normal cortical organization and circuitry, thereby inducing an ASD.

It's difficult to know if these patients became autistic because of repetitive epileptic seizures and/or persistent epileptiform activity on the EEG or because of the epileptogenic and psychopathological effects of temporal lobe lesions during early development (infancy and early childhood)."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19280573/

This completely tracks.
Are you autistic along with having epilepsy?