I suffer ffron social anxiety myself…its a curse…I feel that at 38 I should be over it.
Are you over it?
No, Im not over it…I hope things will improve, but at least theyre better than my late teens, 20’s.
I like this article. It proves similar feelings in my experience. I took the ASPIE test and I was 35 most likely to have Aspergers but never had it diagnosed as it wasn’t severe enough to warrant a label for it. I also have mood components as negative symptoms can affect moods. I was labelled first with schizoaffective but now it is just Bipolar 1. I dont know if thats really an issue because for Bipolar1 I know that I am allergic to anti-depressants and that mood stabilizers are the ones that help the most, that I need minimal sedation as I mostly deal with mania related psychosis which is when I get to hyper or too low and depressed. Lately I have not had severe psychosis to the extent it could warrant a schizophrenia label and thats been consistent for about five years. I have been taking Abilify but even off it I still do not get severely psychotic, first I experience elation and mania but i can control it to the point I get help before I become too hyper and crash.
I know that Aspergers seems to make sense for my childhood, as i was very awkward and kind of a child prodigy until later on when the psychosis developed then went into remission. At 14 is when my mania and psychosis started to developed, at 15 I was treated, thats why I have done so well it proves that early prevention can help sometimes.
I scored 37 on the aspie test. I seem to have some traits but probably fit a similar but different thing, non verbal learning disorder better.
A good forum for aspies or those with similar disorders is http://wrongplanet.net/forums/ which has a forum for schizophrenia/bipolar etc.
A search for schizotypal on the site gets 2330 results. A search for schizophrenia 47,900 results
I finished the aspie test 2 minutes ago. Score is 36.
I certainly think the social deficits of asperger and schizophrenia/schizotypal overlap.
I agree. Did one of those tests and overall was just above the threshold for having problems. But the social aspects of this were pretty strongly affected. But I don’t think I am on that spectrum.
This is what I find interesting. When I was a child over 50 years ago not much was known about Autism. My parents took me to a Dr and they said if I was a boy they would call me autistic but autism didn’t occur in girls! (That was the thinking in some medical communities back then) so I never got diagnosed or any help besides speech therapy. I still believe that the stress of this developmental disorder which I still have no diagnoses for led to my mental health problems which are now labeled schizophrenia.
Peace out new friends.
I’ve been thinking about this statement. It is enlightening.