AS / classic autism?

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In my thread in this sub-forum called "Communication.", someone said my symptoms sound more like classic autism than AS. My official diagnosis is Asperger's, but over the past several years, my Asperger's has got "worse", to the point that I have selective mutism, need daily support, and am having greater and greater problems with communicating. I also have violent meltdowns.

Has my Asperger's just become worse or have I actually got classic autism (here in the UK there is still a distinction in the ICD-10 between the two)?

Sounds to me like the schizophrenia symptoms make you look autistic.

I first developed schizophrenia at 12 years of age. Do you mean that I am AS and that the added schizophrenia makes my AS look more like classic autism? That sounds right I think.

When I was a child they didn't know whether to diagnose me with HFA or AS, because the severity of my symptoms was between the two.
But I didn't have speech delay, so I was diagnosed with AS in the end.

Currently my form of AS itself is not severe, but I guess that the fact I have ADHD makes some of the symptoms worse (I was told that AS combined with ADHD makes meltdowns more frequent).

Schizophrenia does make autistic symptoms look more autistic generally from my understanding - how the negative symptoms and the cognitive symptoms interact with autistic symptoms.

It could be the schizophrenia, as others mentioned, but I've also seen several people who were high functioning AS as kids, and regressed in adolescence. One famous example would be Amanda Baggs. It's an uncommon developmental trajectory in autistics, but it does happen sometimes. It's often associated with a movement disorder called catatonia.

Thanks all. I think it is the schizophrenia, that would make sense, as I regressed at around the time I first started getting ill.

Makes sense.

Aren't Asperger's and schizophrenia close cousins, so to speak?
I've always thought I had at least dash of schizophrenia.
I know my mom, who I highly suspect was an Aspie, was on Thorazine at one time back in the 70's.