could there be a link?... bipolar and autism?

and the rest of it!

...sometimes things happen suddenly!...like a fly landing on my eyeball

like an open door slamming real LOUD because of the masssive suction of air pressure!

like the instant physical attraction to sexual desires!

like the salivating when so yummy food is in sight....

like the impact of a fast car into a BIG tree...

like the gloom of debt suddenly upon meeting the mailbox.

like the gasp when the water goes cold in the shower

like when someone admits they hate you

like an illicit drug injection like a broken bone like a panic!

.....

my family sprung this upon me today they aint around much but they think alot anyway and stuff and seem to think I am autistic in some way...

like the perfect alignment of borderline and bipolar and adhd...

I said ..."well yeah sure! ..can I really just be myself now?"

cos autistic brains operate in an alternative dimension....and any attempt to divert this causes misery...

and it's a wide door to go through..I don't know enough about it?
but if it's true?...I will jump on it suddenly

if I could say I was autistic then no one would treat me like this anymore. no one would doubt my diagnosis and it would just be ok not to be ok. but it's not okay right now cuz bipolar is the black sheep of mental illness.

thats the effect it had on me too

..I relaxed

not so weird huh?

no not weird.

Maybe. There is a video on YouTube made by a young man with autism. He is describing what it's like to have sensory overload. It uses a scene from an old Transformers cartoon, where first he shows it as it is normally. Then, he shows how it is for him if he's being over stimulated. It has multiple overlays of sounds.

I consider it the best example of racing thoughts for me. I wish I could remember the name of the video. And I also get over stimulated, which makes me very anxious and irritable.

Another question I have along these lines if if epilepsi and bipolar may be linked somehow. That strange, almost out of body experience I have when having a full blown episode, and then the physical sensations that accompany it for days afterword... along with the fact that anticonvulsants are also mood stabalizers? It's very, very interesting.

All of these types of questions is why I wanted to go into psychiatry but not in practice, but to be a researcher. Find answers.

...well yeah you are right...
I take anticonvulsive drugs!

what?

I don't think anyone really knows...except us

I don't think anyone really knows about autism either. I mean, they are getting a bit closer all the time. It's another complex one.

But, I don't think I hae autism. No chance. My oldest son's cousin has it, and he's high on the spectrum. Compared to that, I know there's no way I have it.

But how would spending sprees, charisma, hypersexuality, feeling on top of the world conform to the autistic spectrum dx?

Hmm.. Yesterday I felt fine, was before dinner and I'd been a bit sensory overloaded from the loud annoying casino slot machines. I met my sister for dinner and she has bp too, she kept asking me if I was ok and happy. And I was fine and happy but she said that I just did not seem to be looking like someone who is happy. Isn't it like autism to have strange displays of emotions? I really don't know much about it.