Thanks for bringing up childhood sz, now I am sure I have that and not autism. Symptoms all match and it explains everything. My psychiatrist is right, its sz and not autism.
Did you not have emotions, or was it difficulty for you to identify and express them?
A relatively large percentage of people with autism have alexithymia. Not all though! And not only them. And there is a difference between not having something and not being capable of understanding and giving words to it.
"Alexithymia is a personality characteristic in which the individual is unable to identify and describe their emotions. The main feature of Alexithymia is an emotional unawareness, lack of social attachment, and poor interpersonal relating. Furthermore, those suffering from Alexithymia have difficulty recognizing and understanding the emotions of others.
Alexithymia means there is:
1.Difficulty identifying feelings and distinguishing between feelings and the bodily sensations.
2.Difficulty describing feelings to other people.
3.Limited imagination and, therefore, little or no fantasies and limited dreams.
4.An unawareness of what is happening in their own mind and a very concrete way of thinking"
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Since I am already diagnosed with sz, its more likely that its sz causing apathy/lack of emotions.
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My mother told me when I was a child I talked about people following me and wanting to kill me especially when its dark.
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I think autistic people are unable to function because they canāt filter information they are perceiving and schizophrenia is more a response to abuse, or other stressful things. I know there are many other factors involved. Iām not really sure if thatās the problem of autism.
Five bucks says I function better than you do.
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You didnāt read the whole sentence.
Unfortunately, I did. Never getting that part of my life back.
I didnāt say autistic people are unable to function. I said they canāt filter information properly. If they could, they wouldnāt have any problems.
Oh. That must be why they have me doing compliance on insurance policies at work ā because I canāt filter the information in them properly.
You literally did say they canāt function. That isnāt nice. We have a number of autistic people here.
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Youāre being ridiculous. I didnāt say you couldnāt do a task. Are you trying to tell me autistic people have no problems? I donāt know a lot about it. What Iāve heard is they canāt filter out a lot of distracting information coming into the brain. Iām not talking about information relating to a job. Iām talking about all of the sensory information that your brain processes.
Sure do. Stigma caused by ignorant people making unfounded generalizations ranks up there.
Obviously.
There are these things called coping skills that can be learned.
At least one of us is doing that.
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