Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
Meh. It sounds like that excerpt is there precisely to say that ASD might look similar to schizophrenia, but isn't schizophrenia.
I don't have a link handy but SZ is the most common misdiagnosis of ASD's, so there are similarities, but they are not useful. Ie anti-psychotics don't generally improve autistic traits. Or, that autistics over time do not deteriorate such that they come toore closely resemble schizophrenics.
I'd be careful about SZ. I have the impression that doctors love to diagnose it, and whenever they see behavior they don't understand, they think "psychosis," and then they think "psychosis == SZ."
As someone who has been
misdiagnosed with SZ in the early '90s before autism diagnoses became more commonplace, I would say there is a huge difference between the two. Anti-psychotics don't improve autistic traits--yeah no kidding! Any doctor that doesn't know the difference between SZ and ASD needs to stop practicing. Unbelievable incompetence.
12 Nov 2011, 4:24 pm
