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04 Jan 2008, 7:09 pm

laplantain wrote:
Hmmm.
The original post was because I was just wondering about my son because it was just confirmed that my mother-in-law is schizophrenic. Somehow it is a lot scarier to me than Aspergers. I think my husband is secretly afraid that he might be schizophrenic.


I have often been secretly afraid that I'm schizophrenic-- but I would not qualify for a diagnosis because my reality testing is good and I have no auditory or visual hallucinations. I do, though, fit the criteria for schizotypal personality disorder, the description of which is very similar to Aspegrer's.

Autism, when it was first described, was considered a form of schizophrenia. There may well be some kind of link that isn't well understood yet.