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Chimaera1618
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18 Mar 2007, 12:40 am

this certainly sounds like me.



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18 Mar 2007, 1:20 pm

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We had a thread that had a link for an online test that screened for personality "disorders". Schizotypal personality scored high with many of those that took the test. Trying to pin point some precise diagnosis of your condition is utterly pointless people. There is no way to quantify the degree one has certain traits in a statistically meaningful way.

One guy with aspergers maybe highly functioning head of a large computer software company and another maybe living in a card board box under a bridge. Both may have the precise list of traits on any number of screening tests.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... chizotypal


If I remember correctly, that test did not have a result for Asperger's at all, so maybe the people who would have been called Asperger's were called the closest diagnostic thing, schizotypal.



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18 Mar 2007, 1:51 pm

Apatura wrote:
TheMachine1 wrote:
We had a thread that had a link for an online test that screened for personality "disorders". Schizotypal personality scored high with many of those that took the test. Trying to pin point some precise diagnosis of your condition is utterly pointless people. There is no way to quantify the degree one has certain traits in a statistically meaningful way.

One guy with aspergers maybe highly functioning head of a large computer software company and another maybe living in a card board box under a bridge. Both may have the precise list of traits on any number of screening tests.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... chizotypal


If I remember correctly, that test did not have a result for Asperger's at all, so maybe the people who would have been called Asperger's were called the closest diagnostic thing, schizotypal.


These one word labels are not very usefull at explaining the human condition anyway.



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18 Mar 2007, 2:03 pm

For those who do not know whether they fit schizotypal PD,or Autism as a whole,there is a big difference between them-
the age of onset for Schizotypal PD is early adulthood, AS is developmental and will have always been there,most noticeable after toddler age due to the expectancies of the child getting bigger.



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18 Mar 2007, 4:39 pm

KingdomOfRats wrote:
For those who do not know whether they fit schizotypal PD,or Autism as a whole,there is a big difference between them-
the age of onset for Schizotypal PD is early adulthood, AS is developmental and will have always been there,most noticeable after toddler age due to the expectancies of the child getting bigger.

Officially you can't diagnose a PD until early adulthood but if you actually look at the case histories there are almost ALWAYS signs well before even someone's TEENS.