schizoaffective resembling AS but not quite?

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I am diagnosed schizoaffective, and indeed I have mood disturbances with psychosis. But I see AS traits in myself, and sometimes other people see them. But having recently met a couple of people with autism spectrum disorders there are the similarities and there are the differences.

It just bothers me, am I some sort of PDD-NOS, with strong special interest, medium social skills and pretty mild to normal for other aspects, or is it the mental illness...

Why do I fret over this so much...

It seems like my fretting will never end, lol.

The two aren't that similar. I have a good friend who is schizoaffective and she definitely isn't on the autism spectrum.

People with AS have a higher likelihood to develop co-morbid disorders like schizoaffective disorder. I suggest you talk to a psychiatrist, if you know anyone who sees a psychiatrist you should ask them to suggest you one.

Schizoaffective disorder can cause paranoia to the point of hypochondria, and if you haven't experienced symptoms of AS before you developed it, it's possible it's just the illness.

I was diagnosed schizo affective bipolar after the autism diagnoses, so it's obvious the two conditions can coexist.

I developed my current illness as an adult, but as a child I was severely emotionally impaired, I had something, but they don't know what.

I am actually a big hypochondriac.

I also am one of these people who seem to fit both diagnoses, AS and schizoaffective. I perseverate on special interests, have severe sound/ touch/ taste sensitivities, social awkwardness, stimming. However I also have delusional thinking, paranoia, poor reality testing, and perceptual impairment (not to the point of hallucination, but sort of semi-hallucination if that makes any sense).

I have a schizo-affective ex-girlfriend. She sometimes tried to say that she thought she was an aspie and I more or less dismissed it as no you've got a low IQ and you have no learning disorder to blame for it how could you possibly be an aspie? Sometimes now that I've realized that aspies aren't all geniuses I wonder if she is one of us or more rather just an aspie since I think I'm better than aspergers.

I can relate to the semi-hallucination ^-^

Pistonhead, how do you know your girlfriend doesn't have a learning disorder? I didn't know I had dyscalculia until I was nineteen... up until then I thought I was just "thick" when it came to maths.

She's seen plenty of psychs and managed to get decent grades throughout school. If she had something, she'd know it.

If she got decent grades, then she's not "thick"... perhaps she's just got average intelligence, and from where you're standing it looks like stupidity? That does happen.

She has 82 IQ, that's not average intelligence.