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19 Oct 2016, 5:32 am

I was diagnosed with "Autistic spectrum disorder but not Asperger's" once and many docs say I have autistic traits, and many times I was diagnosed with undifferenciated Schizophrenia but my last doc said I probably "just" have schizotypal personality disorder, which is like "schizophrenia lite ver. 0.5b". All doc want to diagnose me with either one because they believe it's completely impossible to have both at the same time.

Now I was searching something completely unrelated and landed on the wikipedia page MCDD. I literally have 80% of the symptoms on the wiki page, many from all three categories (being Autistic, Psychotic and neurological symptoms)

I'm just wondering whether this is a real disorder or syndrome or whatever or is it just the product of some docs thinking too much. It's also not recognized in DSM and ICD (germany uses ICD) so it makes me a bit confused whether I totally have found what's wrong with me or whether the disorder doesn't exist. I'm also wondering whether anyone here has it, and how it's for you if you have it.
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19 Oct 2016, 8:58 am

It's not in the DSM book yet, so it can't be an officially recognized disorder. However, that doesn't mean that its not real. Looks like it's a pretty new idea, and I'm guessing that people started using it more as a reaction to the autism diagnosis being narrowed and more closely defined.

So, that's all politics. Obviously, some people have always been this way and it makes sense that if you actually have schitzo characteristics, you would require different treatments than your typical autistic person, so it seems to me that this label might be really useful. I imagine it would be really rare. Schizophrenia is really rare in children, let alone autistic children.