Any other schizophrenics out there?

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It seems my AS actually helped protect me most of my life. Anytime 'The Conscience', yes, that's what I called him, capitals and all, tried to derail me I would engage him in logical discussions and after a while he would subside. But my symptoms are getting worse (and changing, my old friend 'The Conscience' seems nowhere to be found) as I age. I went on anti-psychotics for the first time a couple weeks back (I'm 48 btw) and now it seems my AS is not coping well with the feelings these drugs are giving me. I feel detached all the time now, like reality has gotten thin. I think the most illogical thoughts and actually believe them. Has anyone else had AS with a co-morbid of Schizophrenia and if so, how do the drugs make you feel?

I'm somewere on the schizo-spectrum, but I can't tell you were exactly. My guess is schizotypal PD, propably with paranoid PD.

I also react highly negative to psychiatric drugs. My feeling is that I can't process them right.
With antipsychotics I don't feel real after a while anymore and also I got a blepharospasm after a very short while. I'm not on them anymore.
Now I'm getting a stimulant for my comorbid ADD and the same again, I react with prepsychotic symptoms.


I just can't take anything.

I had what is now recognized as a psychotic break at 14 that is difficult to classify; at the time, I was diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder comorbid with Asperger syndrome, so I apparently looked at least somewhat schizophrenic. Of course, blowing that out of the water, despite the "poor" prognosis at the time, I actually improved to functioning better than anytime previously, relative to age. I've had transient psychotic-like symptoms since then, but I've not needed continuous antipsychotic medication, and I functioned fairly well anyway, so that was definitely most-unschizophrenic-like, especially considering the young age of psychosis onset and the poor premorbid social functioning.

As for antipsychotics, the only one I know that I can stand at high doses is Zyprexa, and that's only because it has never given me akathisia; otherwise, it can make me drowsy and sleep a lot and apparently as an adult (though not as an adolescent!) it can make me gain a lot of weight. Saphris, Risperdal, Abilify, and Latuda would all end up giving me akathisia at some point.

Currently, the only psych med I'm on is PRN Clonazepam.

am not aspie nor schizophrenic but am autistic and have a classic paranoid schizophrenic profile.
they dont use a label for the pyschosis side they said it is because of having severe autism and as a result; a high arrousal system which creates a schizophrenic profile.
am on a fair bit of halperidol and sometimes get extra five mg halperidol on PRN plus am on diazepam throughout the day.
used to be on respiridone,it helped with the autism side but not the pyschosis.