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Originally Posted by *Laurie*
I completely understand that you would question your Dx, blue. I can also understand that you can attribute many of your symptoms to autism and OCD. The symptom that I'm wondering about are the delusions and (I think) hallucinations you've posted about.
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My therapist says that I get auditory and visual hallucinations, but I don't know about that... I attribute those "hallucinations"--as well as "delusions"--to anxiety. I mean, sometimes you're just so afraid of something that your brain starts to make things up. For example, you may get very worried that someone is out to kill you because you did something wrong by mistake, and therefore you try to run away or hide. That is anxiety IMO.
So while I suppose you could subjectively call those things "hallucinations and delusions," I think they're all due to anxiety rather than a separate psychotic disorder. And since autism oftentimes involves anxiety, all those symptoms would make sense.
I just want help for the autism if I have it because my symptoms are not fully being treated. Also, my therapist doesn't say anything about symptoms unless I ask. Again, my therapist never told me about my monotonous voice or flat facial affect until I asked her about it. "Yes, I've noticed it ever since we've been doing therapy together for a year and a half." And I only knew about those two symptoms because the neuropsychologist who I saw for a re-evaluation told me that she noticed them.