Ok, those days my mom says to me that I am probably not schizophrenic. That was thinking too one of my ex pdocs… In fact my condition is such that I always feel soo low. I have no confidence, I dont speak much cause I cant think well and I always feel that nobody loves me. Its a pain. What is specific for the autists people? I guess in my country they rarely diagnose somebody with autism once you land in the public psychiatry… And what meds take the autists?
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I hope my mood gets better cause its often still my pain in my soul, its physical already in my case…
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Sup Anna ???
what is sup far? wow 
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“Sup” = “what’s up”
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It means what’s up…what are u doing…
ah ok. No, nothing, I just somatize a lot in my illness. I feel this pain in my soul literally… Its painful inside me instead of having positive emotions.
I don’t think there are a lot of medications for autism. They are working on some. Mostly it’s to manage things like anger and irritability.
Schizophrenia and autism do share some genetic factors and it’s possible to have both. But why does your mom think you have autism? Did you have difficulty with eye contact, understanding facial expressions, social difficulties, sensory problems, repetitive behaviors, etc?
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I have a lot of social problems… She thinks that I am autistic cause I was very lonely child, always on my own, I wasn’t speaking a lot or interacting with other kids… I have problems since kid while form what I know, sz comes later in life… I have problems with eye contact still now but it happens in sz too I guess…
From what I understand about Autism, there is a lot of social awkwardness, angst, and sensory overload/overstimulation. It can be grueling and agonizing. The angst is essentially a heavy, brooding feeling; anxiety, fear, stress. These three main symptoms of Autism are feelings, though. However, in Autism, one experiences these undesirable feelings for no apparent reason whatsoever. This makes it worse than Schizophrenia. At least in Schizophrenia, the person experiences the angst, social awkwardness, and cognitive flooding, for apparent reasons. People know or can see why the person is feeling those feelings. In Autism, people just don’t know why the person is feeling those feelings. They don’t understand.
The eye contact problems are different in Autism than in Schizophrenia. Like I said, the person trying to make eye contact with the person who has Autism does not understand why he/she won’t make or sustain eye contact with the person. It is usually because the person with Autism experiences a burning painful sensation in their eyes upon making eye contact with the other person. It’s kind of like their eyes are “on fire”. It is really sensory overload/overstimulation. In Schizophrenia, the person can see why the person with Schizophrenia does not make or sustain eye contact. Usually because of paranoia, delusion, hallucination, etc.
I don’t think I have ever met someone with Autism personally, but I have met/seen people with Asperger’s Syndrome. It’s on the Autism Spectrum. They tend to experience a higher level of difficulty/challenge when going about daily life. Years ago, I actually had an aunt ask me if I had Autism at a family gathering.
Here’s another characteristic of Autism: dark blue/purple coloring underneath the eyes. I know in Asperger’s Syndrome, the person can sometimes be misjudged or mistaken for “looking like a criminal”. Asperger’s Syndrome is sometimes called the “Incredibly Manly Syndrome”; most likely because of the high level of difficulty when going about daily activities. For example, the person with Asperger’s Syndrome exerts oneself differently. They tend to utilize a lot more skeletal/muscle tendons when doing physical exertions, thus making it more difficult for them. But it is also an advantage; it allows them to exert themselves at a higher degree. But like I said, it is also a higher degree of difficulty and challenge for the person.
That’s new to me. I’m an Aspie and know plenty of other Aspies. None of them has ever shared this with me.
I was talking about full-blown Autism. So you don’t experience any of that?
I was talking about full-blown Autism. So you don’t experience any of that?
I worked with people on the autism spectrum–severe cases. I met children with autism, too. If you do actually have autism, there are behavioral services to treat that. It might be too late for early intervention, but using autism behavioral analysis, your chances of integrating into society are much higher.
Basically, ABA is like training you to conform behaviorally through repetition and patient feedback.
A lot of severe cases cannot communicate at all…they have little language and little desire to speak, too. I was told to give them rewards for communicating, that way there was positive reinforcement. We also collected data on behaviors. So, if someone threw something across the room, we mark that as “throwing behavior” and we look for what happened right before the throwing behavior to see how to solve this type of socially inappropriate behavior.
Here’s a video about the basics of ABA and how adults can benefit in a residential type setting.
Best wishes!
Believe that you are friend of god and your thought and manner is important for every human cause we are all children’s of god and we are precious for god and other humans, start believing your thoughts, this is a starting point of chanding your life and humanity for better,
Im proud to be your friend.
I’m diagnosed as both and no I don’t. It’s a matter of minimizing the amount of data input. I see every muscle movement in a person’s face, every bump in their skin. And I’m trying to analyze all the content of their speech and the modulation of it. And then there’s everything happening around us.
Too. Much. Input.
Your friends don’t curse you with lifelong health issues. Peddle your religious crap elsewhere, please.
Sensory input, yes. So what does it feel like? What feelings or sensations do you get when you are experiencing highly intense absorption of input?
A) This is impossible to explain to someone who lacks a common frame of reference. There are no words I’m aware of in the English language that can describe how I experience some things to others who aren’t wired in a similar fashion.
B) Is there any particular reason for the interrogation? It’s … weird.
Huh??? 
Yes, i have troubles speaking but it comes more from my lack of ideas or the fear to tell a crap. In fact its just my mom who thinks that i can be autistic cause i have symptoms since child but i guess it happens in other mi too… personnaly, i dont feel quite autistic. I feel more like a borderline, somebody who is always low with a bit of pathology of the caracter (anger,irritability, thoughts of violence,jealousy)… in my country they never speak about autism for the adults once you land in public hospital. Its the bottom of the society and they put almost to all the diagnoses of schizophrenia…
Hey, I’ll take it.
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