Schizophrenia spectrum disorders and ASD?

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Is it possible to have both? Does anyone here have both? If so, what's it like?

Though you should question some expert, I don'r se why you couldn't have both. They both have some genetic root. Schizophrenia is more visible in its symptoms (hearing voices, hallucinations, paranoic deliriums), while ASD may pass undiagnosed for a a whole life: I would say that ASD (especially High Functioning) has in itself an invitation to to hide and mimic normality.

Well, it is possible to have both. I'm not schizophrenic, but I am bipolar with schizoaffective tendencies.

What's it like? I suppose I'm used to it.

Yes, its possible to have both. I have schizoaffective disorder and high functioning autism. Lately the schizoaffective is more of a problem. I won't get into details so don't worry be happy (what ever happy really means because everything in the world is called "INR" which means {its not real})! The economy is strong (not really) says the world. I remember when someone that was our president awhile back (I won't mention) he always said that line but in reality (something that some people never know) we were closer to a Great Depression than ever before!

Actually, I have a question... why do you want to know? Do you know someone who might have both conditions? Is this just an academic question, or is there some practical reason you're asking? If you're asking because you want to help or understand someone better it might be easier for us to answer. What exactly is it that you want to know?

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_c ... l_disorder

The two rolled into one. It's not officially a diagnos yet, but on its way to be.

... and for me, someone once (many years ago) even added "with psychotic tendencies".


For many years, it was literally maddening and I often feared for my sanity ... yet I did have a certain someone (who is now my first ex-wife) to whom I could turn for "sanity checks" ... and even after she had divorced me, she still did the same for me and even ended up being the one who conveyed a message from someone else wanting to try to help point me toward the beginning of some real help in learning to see, accept and deal with straight-up reality, straight up.

Today seeing myself as a "soul" who just happens to have a physical body (rather than as a body merely possibly having a soul), and with my brain simply being a component within this body I just happen to inhabit, I deal first with issues of the soul or "heart" of myself and then work at bringing the mere body (flesh, bone and brain) into submission.

It's mostly an academic question. I am currently writing a story in which the protagonist has a psychiatric disorder. I didn't start off deciding what the character would have, and as the character developed in my head, I realized that she seemed to have both autistic and schizophrenic traits. The story has multiple disabled characters, so I try to make a point of portraying them as realistically and respectfully as possible.

I'll pm you some posts I've made in other threads.

I have paranoid schizophrenia and AS. An example from me is that when I get sensory overload, it causes my Voices and paranoia to get worse. However I am on a great meds combination and I have lots of support