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Originally Posted by jimrat
Psychotic disorders like ASD's have in common, the work on low latent inhibition. That means, their brains are particularly bad at screening out "unnecessary" things. Sometimes not having the same filters as others can prove interesting and productive though.
So yea, there is a similarity. Also, no one is a textbook example. No one fits into a diagnosis to 100 %, so it is quite possible both having traits from psychosis and Asperger's.
A diagnosis like schizotypal is an example where they have tried to merge mild psychotic symptoms with a autism like base.
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Until 1983 autism was considered a subtype form of schizophrenia.
Schizotypal and autism are only similar on appearance and social scale. The mind of a schizotypal is highly imaginative full of fantasy creating worlds full of characters with entire lives in great detail and linked to authors like the bronte sisters and histories screen wrights. Autistic imagination is vastly different with difficulty to see things from others point of view or imagine how things affect others let alone create a wonderland full of indivduals.
Here are two more online tests
Reading mind behind the eyes
http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Faces/EyesTest.aspx
Aspie quiz
http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php
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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
I wish I could give this test to my 23-year-old son. (I only scored 15.) I've always strongly suspected Asperger's in him even though he was never officially diagnosed; I wonder sometimes if my husband has it too because he is socially awkward, has learning disabilities and is a walking encyclopedia of World War II facts. Unfortunately the boy is now showing signs of having bipolar disorder, which would be a double whammy. BP is hard enough on me, even with above-average social skills; I can't even imagine what it's like for someone who doesn't have that going for him.
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I have both bipolar1 and aspergers.