I was like that too around age five - there is a video of me from that time and I say "the bees are everywhere" and start rolling around on the couch like a maniac. I know where you're coming from - hard to determine if you were just a weird kid or autistic. I was bad socially and really withdrawn as a kid and has many more weird things that I did, like repeating phrases and odd rituals. Always felt so far away from people and never felt close to my family.
I don't really know if I am autistic. I was able to make some friends and I graduated college and so forth... but I was weird as hell as a kid and can barely function as an adult and I really aspergers may be my problem.
Based on the things you said about the paranoia and magical thinking you might read about schizotypal personality disorder if you haven't already. Maybe those thoughts could be AS related too though, I am not an expert just read a lot about a lot of different disorders to try to figure out what's wrong with me. I get paranoid too but it's mostly socially-oriented paranoia stemming from bad social anxiety.
If you have persistent thoughts about the magical/alien paranoia stuff you might look into schizotypal PD. I don't think that's typical of AS to be convinced of magical-type ideas like that but maybe some people here have evidence to the contrary. People with Schizotypal PD also have some similar traits to AS like trouble relating to people, withdrawness.
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