Are Your Symptoms Getting Worse?

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or better as time progresses?

Mine are definitely getting worse as time marches past me. I think some of it comes from being at an age where I just don't care so much about what things I do look like to other people.

yes.

I think they're getting worse.

Alot worse.

The stuff I ascribe to the autism / AS spectrum has been perfectly constant throughout my entire life; the only real change there has come through my level of understanding this spectrum, such as I do.

The stuff I ascribe to the schizophrenia spectrum has been slowly creeping towards becoming more pronounced, which is fairly typical from what I understand; I don't want to say has been becoming "worse", for this condition is both good and bad, a gift and a curse. My madness is a well from which I draw forth much art and creativity, and a spyglass through which I can look at things sideways when most people can only look at them straight on. I even managed to re-forge rampant paranoia into utter preparedness, which has served me well many times.

Through strength of will and character, one's demons may be made to serve and advise rather than rule and torment. I choose to believe there's no such thing as a glass that's half empty or half full; the half full glass has the drink in the bottom half, and air in the top half; drinking the drink in the bottom half is the obvious exercise of optimism; wailing about the air in the top half of the glass is the obvious exercise of cynicism; drinking the drink and finding a use for that air is the more challenging exercise, and one that many people never even realize is something to attempt.

Good fortune,

- Icarus dances on the razor’s edge betwixt genius and madness...

I wouldn't say they're getting worse as I get older. If anything, they are staying the same but I'm less likely to hide them from other people in order to fit in. Other people might see them as getting worse because of that though. I'd much rather be content and weird in other's eyes than seem normal and be miserable on the inside.

My eccentricity is exceeding all expectations. Things are definitely getting worse yet it's like contractions just before giving birth - 30 seconds apart.........

My symptoms are worse than ever. I can't seem to find nobody who isn't bothered by it .

It's much better than it was when I was a child; back then, I could barely tell what was going on around me. No sense of direction, difficulty following/remembering instructions, difficulty recognizing people, and a general sense of feeling lost in every situation. As I grew into my teen years a light clicked on and I became much more aware of the world around me.

However, the older I get, the more reclusive I get. And the sensory issues, particularly sensitivity to sound, have gotten much much worse.

The more aware I become of the world, the more aware I become of my strangeness in it. It makes me feel I am growing stranger, though in truth I am probably no stranger now than ever.

The AS symptoms aren't getting worse, but my other comorbid conditions are. I'm becoming dumber by the day (lately I've been having trouble holding a conversation for more than 5 seconds), my "depression", if that's what you call it, feels as though it's getting more severe and my anxiety levels have increased a lot over the past year or two.

its too late for me to change, if i do i wont know how to act. with that said i dont know if my symptoms are the same or worse

I am not sure whether I'm getting "worse". Sometimes I suspect that as I get older, the same behaviors I've always had are simply becoming less cute or excusable to others (mostly in my family--to my knowledge those outside my family don't talk much about my oddities). I'm also getting more discouraged and less content, because it's apparent to me that facets of my personality that I thought were something I could overcome are actually hard-wired tendencies with which I will always struggle. For 25, I feel very worn out.

Worse. I've been unemployed (or employed as a housewife, whichever) for a few months. And I've noticed my social issues getting more and more pronounced. My agoraphobia is progressively worse the more I spend my days at home. It's like all the social skills I have taught myself over the years are "use or lose".