Diff between SchizoAffective disorder and AS

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good thread to bump

That reminded me of a scene in the Temple Grandin movie when she was asked about the cow squeezer and if she likes to touch herself.
So she touches her own arm and guesses she doesn't mind, but actually the person asking her was talking about touch in a sexual way.

I thought that Aspergers, autism, and schizophrenia are all degrees of severity on the same spectrum of dissociative disorders.

Neurosis might be loosely defined as worry.

Aspergers, autism, and schizophrenia are not on the same spectrum. Aspergers and autism are considered to be on the same spectrum.

Aspergers, autism, and schizophrenia are not dissociative disorders.

The five dissociative disorders listed in the DSM IV are as follows[1]:

Depersonalization disorder: periods of detachment from self or surrounding which may be experienced as "unreal" (lacking in control of or "outside of" self) while retaining awareness that this is only a feeling and not a reality.
Dissociative amnesia: (formerly Psychogenic Amnesia): noticeable impairment of recall resulting from emotional trauma
Dissociative fugue: (formerly Psychogenic Fugue): physical desertion of familiar surroundings and experience of impaired recall of the past. This may lead to confusion about actual identity and the assumption of a new identity.
Dissociative identity disorder: (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder): the alternation of two or more distinct personality states with impaired recall, among personality states, of important information.
Dissociative disorder not otherwise specified: which can be used for forms of pathological dissociation not covered by any of the specified dissociative disorders.
credit Wikipedia.

The term neurosis holds greater complexity than the word worry would cover.