Tony (11, M) Story.  Now we sleep with the alarm on every night.

Elopement: 

• involves leaving a safe or supervised area without permission.


• poses a risk to the individual's safety.


• can occur in various settings.


• is a common behavior in individuals with ASD.

Virginie (10, M) Stories and Service Dog.

Single Mom (9, M) heading to the judge and calls me asking for papers.  Here you go…

Let’s note that Elopement was masked behind broader buckets and I think this is a miss.  We need to name and discuss this very challenging behavior.

FB Survey.  4 hours.  100+ votes, 100 comments.   https://www.facebook.com/groups/syngap/posts/1734514154096968/

76% of respondents eloped (35% F, 41% M)

24% didn’t (17% F, 7% M)

• 11 F, no elopement at home - but sometimes tries to elope while at school.


• C ( has always been an eloper - kid has a sixth sense for when someone leaves the door unlocked


• C elopes and age 16 years old


• H 9 girl constantly running away


• B-7.5 years old


• Girl - 3


• Fourteen. She doesn't anymore, but used to. Not to the degree that other families struggle, but we definitely had to keep an extra close eye/ear. Had bells on all our doors, etc. Did get a call from our neighbor once while I was making dinner saying that S had just walked into her house, that she was safe, and was helping to give their baby a bath. Thankfully they were very good friends and took it in stride. (S was about four at the time.)


• Boys age 7. He has for awhile


• Boy, age 8.5. Just started eloping more so recently, in the last year.


• 11, girl


• Boy age 15


• 13 year old girl


• Girl-3


• Ty 10 elopes since he can walk. It’s our biggest problem.


• Boy age 8 but has been doing it for a while


• Age 7, girl.


• Boy - 14y/o


• Boy age 9… he’s a track star!


• Boy age 12, has eloped since he could walk/run. It probably peaked around age 6 and got better with meds. Elopement is less frequent now but scarier now that he’s older and higher.


• Boy 10. Always has wandered and will still now run off knowing he’s not suppose to


• Any chance he gets 13


• My boy (22 y/o) always was and is now a master of escape, he can hear if I turn the key in the door, front door has an alarm fitted just in case


• Boy , 25 the risk is high because he looks typical


• 25 yo female, requiring alarms, cameras,and specialized door locks.  In a state that says that these measures are unlawful restraint and invasion of privacy

Frazier, 2025. Extremely High finding as a Symptom of SYNGAP1.  See Table 2 of Quantifying neurobehavioral profiles across neurodevelopmental genetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disorders

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dmcn.16112

McKee, 2025.  Notes the significantly heightened enrichment of Autistic Behavior and Behavioral Abnormality vs. Rett, Angelman or Epilepsy cohorts.  See Figure 2B of Clinical signatures of SYNGAP1-related disorders through data integration.

https://www.gimjournal.org/article/S1098-3600(25)00066-8/abstract

Cunnanne, notes impulsivity (which is a euphemism for elopement if I have ever heard one) and has three quotes in Table 1 (see below), but also notes in Figure 2 that both ASD and lack of danger awareness came up in almost every interview.  See SYNGAP1-Related Intellectual Disability: Meaningful Clinical Outcomes and Development of a Disease Concept Model Draft.  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5098346

Impulsivity quotes:

Runs toward streets - “He wouldn't stop himself from running into the road. He climbs things in that house that you're

like‘oh my god, how are you going to get out of that?’”

Jumps into pools - “He would walk into a pond. We were at the pool the other day…and he

just walked off the edge and just fell into the water and was like… he would have just drowned.”

Runs toward crowds - “She was a bolter. So that was always scary. We had a few scares where you look away for a

moment, I mean, we always had somebody with her, but it could be a moment's time and it's like

where'd you go, you thought she was right there.”

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