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firemonkey
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23 Apr 2020, 8:22 am

I am pondering how much this is ASD or schizoaffective related . A paid general cognitive assessment via Cognifit .

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23 Apr 2020, 9:58 am

Ad I understand it schizoaffective and ASD are like gophers and rock hyraxes. Two kinds of small furry animals that outwardly look similar but are totally unrelated.

If you don't mind me saying this:That one post you made about how you "hear" space aliens talking to each other in the sound of your washing machine makes wonder if you, as an individual, might not indeed be some condition with "schizo" in front of the name, and maybe not just an aspie/autistic. That kind of thing just doesn't go with pure autism.



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23 Apr 2020, 10:56 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Ad I understand it schizoaffective and ASD are like gophers and rock hyraxes. Two kinds of small furry animals that outwardly look similar but are totally unrelated.

If you don't mind me saying this:That one post you made about how you "hear" space aliens talking to each other in the sound of your washing machine makes wonder if you, as an individual, might not indeed be some condition with "schizo" in front of the name, and maybe not just an aspie/autistic. That kind of thing just doesn't go with pure autism.



I don't mind at all . It's an intelligent observation . My psych dxes have been as follows- schizophrenia 1975- 1983, Schizoaffective mixed type/occasionally bipolar disorder 1983-2005, personality disorder NOS 2005-?, paranoid PD ?-2018, Asperger's &schizoaffective 2019


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24 Apr 2020, 3:53 am

I am not qualified to interpret these results.

I do think there becomes a point where trying to disentangle different diagnoses becomes pointless. Ultimately, you are a hodgepodge of different conditions which add up to you. Difficult to say “this is the ASD” and “this is the SAD” because they intermingle in ways that probably nobody really understands.