Is Asperger's Syndrome worse than Schizophrenia

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And the question I usually have is why people with Asperger's tend to get misdiagnosed with Schizophrenia? I know one of my doctors tried to tell me I had Schitzoaffective disorder. Unfortunately the one that stuck, over my childhood Diagnosis (that's because my mother threw away my paperwork, but that's another long story). And what is worse, those diagnoses are hard to get changed, too.

Okay so back to my question: Why do aspies get treated as schizos?

Flat affect, social withdrawl, different way of talking, often no real eye contact.
All that are symptoms often seen in autistics and in schizophrenics.
Oh and symptoms of overload can look simmilar to psychosis.

I was once missdiagnosed, I changed psychiatrists and that worked.

Yes, all of that's happened to me too, I've pretty much developed every symptom it is possible to get from trauma over the years (also over things many NTs probably would not think would traumatize someone like this) and I noticed how much I fit with how children process trauma (and everything else) but it was just recently I really got into neuroscience and made the connections to what was happening and I can't understand why this is not more widely known because it explains so much about how we work. I would guess the more co-morbids the more neotenized ("immature"/youthful but still an adult supercharged version) our brains are, as that is probably one part of the solution to what autism etc really is (the other big reason possibly being that we had an additional round of cell-division in the fetal stage as we have twice the number of so many things). If your psychiatrists had known/cared that for example the hippocampus is like a big version of a childs then they would understand why.
Auditory processing disorder is connected to an immature hippocampus (speaking of parts that are affected by trauma)

See, first you learned a lot from me and now I'm learning a lot from you.
I don't know that much about trauma, and especially not how it differs in autistic people, that's why I'm very thankfull for what you wrote about it, because it explains a lot for me and also why I had this confusion with the psychiatrists back than.
Sadly in my town is no psychiatrist for adults who has real experience in autism, or just a bit.
I also had the feeling that I have to see the places again and talk to the people to get over the trauma. In my case those people where psychiatrists what had advantages and also disadvantages. The advantage was that they didn't traumaticed me on purpouse back then, the disatvantage was that they weren't willing to go over it again and first told me I'm not supposed to talk about it.
Back than I was in the locked ward and suffered under acute claustrophobia and didn't know what happened to me and when I complained about it afterwards they told be that I could have left earlyer, but noone had told me that back than.
And they thought I would have something else, so I had to stay ambulant for nearly two years there and freaked out all the time, because I was suffering under severe anxiety because of that and they didn't belief me.
But then I got expert reports from psychiatrist who don't work there and they wrote that the psychitry acted wrong and then after nearly two years ambulant there they released me and told me I should find someone else.
But next tuesday I can see my old room in the locked ward again, what was very important for me. It isn't used anymore, because it is in the old part of the building. That's the bulding:




Terrible place.

And I'm sorry that I'm off topic.

What I wanted to add that I found it interesting that I also showed some psychotic like symptoms during the trauma, because my half-brother had schizophrenia and that I have since than a higher rate of schizotypal symptoms myself (I already had some befor that). Usually childhood trauma can trigger schizophrenic symptoms, when you have the schizophrenic genes of course. Just that I wasn't a child anymore, but because of the autism I propably had a childlike brain and then it makes sence.

You don't have to apologize to me and they others reading shouldn't need it either as we are very much on topic anyway...
I cried when I read what had happened to you, that is so horrible. I had flashbacks of not being let out to smoke during the evening/night when I had my autism assessment - which is a much less traumatic thing, I cannot - do not want to - begin to imagine what happened to you. I don't know in detail how trauma works, just hope that just seeing this place again would not traumatize you even further as if we are this susceptible that might be too much? It is very understandable you reacted like you did, anyone should understand that. I by no means meant to discredit it by mentioning that we seem to get it from so much slighter trauma. When something like that happens it is even worse for us... I am so happy this kind of behavior wasn't condoned and you got your freedom again (though what justice I think they deserve is another thing altogether ).

Yes everything makes sense now, doesn't it? Anything that can damage children psychologically and cause disorders do so even more in us at any age. That explains so much, like you said with schizophrenia and childhood trauma...

You know I could say "good by" to everything that happened to me back than, but not really the trauma, because I had the feeling I "lost" something back than, I lost a part of my soul in that room and I have the STRONG feeling I have to go back to say "good by" to that time and to pick up what I "lost" there. I know it's kind of silly, but I kind of NEED to do that. I can't move on so long I haven't done that, I just can't.
I'm frightened, even a lot, but I can't help it and the only psychiatrist I trust in that terrible house is going with me to see the old room. But no matter what happens, that house will always be terrible for me and I'll never like it, but I think I have the right not to after all that, that happened there.
I can tell then on tuesday how it went, when you are interested.

edit:
But actually the story contunes there. They kicked me out sometime in august last year and sended a report to my insurence, they weren't evel allowed to send without my agreement and so I had even more trouble because of that. On January 2nd I called in that psychiatry, because I had a friend over and I couldn't handle the situation, he was suicidal, but the psychiatrist on the phone thought I just wanted attention and didn't send me any help. Later on that night my friend was dead and since that time they are nice to me, but now it's a bit too late...!
So and that's why they finally agreed showing me my old room after 2 1/2 years, because there first has someone to die until they took me serious I guess. At least that's my feeling about it.

I don't know why this all happened, but I think it's because they have no experiences with autism and I just don't fit into their theories.

NO!! However, I did volunteer work with schizophrenics,they are cool. However, their coping skills are far less then aspies.