Autism <-----> Schizophrenia (Opposites?)

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Oh no!

Was curious though- about a couple things.
Why you're such a student of psychiatric theory (but dont seem to be an official 'student' in the profession), and why you gravitated to WP.

Apparently you have mental illness in your family so that explains the one question.
The fact that you considered the possibility that you're an aspie explains the other.

Hehe. lt kind of turned into a nerdy obsession for me.

After hanging around and learning what l have about the two different spectrums, actually, l'm pretty much convinced my background has made me made odd in a way the DSM currently does not recognize but l'm ok with that

No not at all. These theories are based on a flawed methodology.

You have to consider that conditions are simply a way of defining a group of traits, and not others. This is not an absolute and it actually can be be quite arbitrary.

The idea of an 'opposites' in this context is nonsense.

There are traits related to the schizoaffective, and schizotypal spectrums as well as ASD. There is some overlap, with some people by not always. It is not something I personally relate to.

Maybe growing up in a family of psychotics, made you neurotic- and thats what you're grapping with.

Or maybe you have adhd- or some other condition.

But regardless - you fit right in here on WP.

You seem - rather charmingly eccentric to me!

Last edited by naturalplastic on 17 Feb 2013, 4:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

They are not opposites. Autism means that you see details instead of the big picture. Schizophrenia means that you interpret the big picture differently from the majority of the population.