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22 Jul 2012, 7:01 am

I am sure this topic has appeared before if so could you direct me to the thread.

Ok I've been diagnosed as on the spectrum. It is possible I have another non-verbal learning disability (I've looked it up and dyspraxia has some overlap with autism). I didn't feel that the people assessing went into other possibilities, apparently when diagnosed as an adult the following should be ruled out: schizophrenic spectrum, bipolar, ADHD, obsessive compulsive disorder, major depressive disorder, semantic pragmatic disorder, nonverbal learning disorder, Tourette syndrome and stereotypic movement disorder.

I feel that as well as a non-verbal learning disability I might have a mental health issue. I have done tests online and have found the following:

positive for high schizotypal trait
negative for schizophrenia
positive for bipolar disorder

Now my question would be could some of the symptoms that people think of as autistic actually be a demonstration of high schizotypal trait?
Could I present differently in mental health terms because I also have a non-verbal learning difficulty such as autism or dyspraxia?
Also what is the line on people who've experience psychosis can they be diagnosed as autistic or does the presence of psychosis rule out autism? As well as psychosis I have experienced mania (although I've been told that mood swings are common among people on the spectrum).

How would I go about finding a specialised who deals both with non-verbal learning disabilities and psychosis so they can tease apart the relative contribution of each disorder?

Many thanks sorry for the slightly long post.



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22 Jul 2012, 7:47 am

Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Autism are very often not that far away.

A high rate of people with schizotypal PD show autistic traits and a high rate of autistic people show schizotypal, schizophrenic oder bipolar traits and there is als McDD who is between autism and schizophrenia.
According to the ICD-10 you shouldn't even schizotypal PD and autism together, because the two are very simmilar.

Autism, Bipolar Disorder and Schizphrenia are all genetically related to each other and there is a hugh diagnostic overlap.

Go to an expert or at least autism expert to find out.


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