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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
He scored high on the test for asd. He didn't talk until he was 3 and he started with full sentence and could read. Compulsively picks at his skin, and just doesn't "get" people. He's very literal and can only follow one instruction at a time. BP is suspected because of how he reacts to adhd meds, family history, his suicide attempt @ age 8 and several other bp symptoms. The fact a mood stabilizer worked well for him. He'd crash and become suicidal.
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Not "getting" people can be because of non-interpretation (details are there but the natural/subconscious "Gestalt" doesn't register) or mis-/over-interpretation (the "Gestalt" did very much register, but rationalising causes mistakes to be made). One would be ASD-like, the other SZ/SZA-like, but they result in the same problem, superficially.
Picking at your skin could be something purely neurotic, self-hurting or something neurotic, an anxiety disorder, caused by either ASD or BP/SZA/SZ. It could even be catatonia.
Taking things literally could very well be ASD but could also be due to social anxiety caused by SZ/SZA/BP. Being able to only follow only one instruction at a time could be ASD, but also due to bad (working) memory (very typical for SZA/SZ), ADHD-I or BP distractibility or racing thoughts, or obsessions due to just anxiety or due to BP/SZA/SZ.
Just being the devil's advocate here.
Edit:
The percentage I gave is of course wrong: chance of 0.0001, so 0.01%. However, incidence of autism used to be 1 in every 1000, so 0.001%.