What is Asperger Syndrome
Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is chara...
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Misdiagnosed before with schizophrenia
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I noticed after just recently becoming a member of this board that many others have had or do have a diagnoses of schizophrenia/schio-affective,schizotypal etc.
I guess that is common for aspies. I was originally misadiagnosed with schizophrenia(schizo-affective to be exact). But that diagnoses was taken off when I was diagnosed with aspergers. Apparently it is not that uncommon for aspies to be misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. So becareful! Adult psychiatrists really don't know a lot about aspergers in adults and to them the characteristics can look the same as some schizophrenic characteristics. I am not talking about delusions or hallucinations but more so the negative symoptoms of schizophrenia which can include an odd or different way of thinking, social problems, sometimes lack of facial expressions or tone in the voice. Sometimes the literal thinking of an autistic can be seen as a thought disorder to a psychiatrist too. Jules Posted on 12/28/07, 11:12 pm |
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posilutely right! Neologisms are definitive for schizophrnia as is belief in G-d or supernatural anything, Talking to birds is delusion at best or hallucination if you insist you do/did. They will only see what they decide and filter all information to 'prove' their EGO position. I am fighting to get stuff like that off my record and failing. I am pathologically trusting, but labled 'paranoid' for fear of drugs that all seem to have idiosyncratic reactions and terrible side effects in me. I have had CPR twice from overdrugging and nearly killed my mother in a prozac fugue state. Drugs induce psychosis and hallucinations which are used to 'prove' false diagnosis. (not to mention malignant hypertension high cholesterol and diabetes) And I am PARANOID to hesitate to take drugs. I only take them now because I want to die.
Include Schizoid, Schizotypal, Oppositional Defiant, Avoidant and many more. For Aspie Females, Large Numbers are labled Borderline Which is a junque diagnosis considered untreatable and a coverup, when even slightly fitting, for female PTSD. It denigrates their past trauma/autism and treatment is ignore or mock or abuse further by putting all responsibility on the victim. Professionals who cannot explain the 4-5 to 1 diagnosis rate of males, often refusing to consider the dagnosis of Asperger's Autism for a female seem desperate to uphold this status quo. I would like to be able to know the percentages of various diagnoses a particular doctor gives to patient, particularly by age and gender. Females go to the doctor more but get less treatment and too late because they are not taken seriously. I believe Dr.Robert White, god of bpd, labels 100% of young females with this diagnosis. My mother nearly bled to death from a perforated ulcer because she was ignored and her ongoing problems are called 'neurotic' while she loses 50% of her body. I am calling for female Aspies to stand up and be counted. Go to the yahoo group and tell your story: asfemalehelp. Make noise everywhere so parents will not ignore their daughters who are suffering in slience and not acting up or melting down. 
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