[Sleepyspoon]

So I’m curious how many people get diognosed ausburgers at a young age for it to be later recognized as something else how many in the general community has this actually happened to and the link between parents contributing to bad diognoses....I have always heard voices off and on the first time I could remember was hearing my dead grandpa speak to me and often I would get up at night and sit at the stairs waiting for him I was told I had ausburgers never told any doctor of that experience or similar even at a age of at the oldest ten I knew it was not normal and never confessed I don’t understand it’s like once you get a label everything else is thrown out the window and every time you have a problem your just misreading their intentions I have felt my life slipping away since i little I have no problem meeting people or talking to them when I actually want to Want is the key word here usually just when I feel like getting high anymore I get diognosed skitzoprhenic recently in rehab and told if I didn’t stop doing drugs that eventually medication wouldn’t be enough....with all that being said how many people with condition are criminally involved as I always hear they are pretty good at following rules and staying out of trouble outside of mistaking a sociol norm...as far as drugs getting them n how I get them I know what I’m doing ps I went to a charter school for kids with needs and met other people with these issues and they made me feel socially awkward I ended up just using them inadvertently

[Sleepyspoon]

Just the fact that I knew how to lie to avoid them thinking differently of me somthing I shouldn’t have been able to grasp at the age of ten if I were actually autistic I’m just curious ociously I’m not mentally retarded

[cats!]

I can't really speak to being diagnosed with ASD and then later with something on the schizophrenia continuum -- maybe check with the folks on that part of the forum?

But with regard to drugs and criminal activity - despite the stereotype being that we normally follow the rules and stay out of trouble, I've known quite a few autistic men who have alcoholism, drug issues, and have been to jail. Many people with those experiences have autism and ADHD.

[Sleepyspoon]

I have posted in both but do you know the circumstances? And not to come off rude but the only people I use to have any issue getting along with was my parents lol until ran everyone off I relate to having issues connecting with people but but not when I want somthing bad enough

[Sleepyspoon]

All I know is that iv been treated for that practically my whole life and hasn’t really helped me at all iv actually been able to track certain points in my life where I felt myself slipping and I don’t hear voices anymore not since I was in grade school I do have god n the devil talk to me in other forms if I’m gonna be truthful somthing iv hid n fought for a portion of my life is that somehow my death is gonna bring the apoalcalipse