What is autistic psychosis?

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I just recently heard the term. I know I have "nutted up" a few times in my life and I was wondering about this?

I think it refers to autistic "blow ups" (issues that make it look like we're losing mental control) or the autism/schizophrenia mix-ups.

http://www.neurodiversity.com/psychosis

I had that, and depression at the same time, when I was 23. It wasn't fun, at all.

Never heard of it in that way before.

There's Schizophrenia, which can be described as AS + psychoses.

Autism used to be called childhood/infantile psychosis, as autism was thought as a symptom of psychotic behaviour (when in fact autism can exist by itself, as we all know).

Could it be a misstatement of "autistic psychopathy"? That was the original name used by Asperger to refer to it.

I don't know of a connection between autism and psychosis, except that autism and schizophrenia are slightly more likely to occur in the same families. They don't happen together too often, though there are a couple of people around here who have both (not too unlikely considering that schizophrenia, like autism, has an approximately 1:100 ratio.)

I've heard of autistic catatonia, but that's a movement disorder and not related to schizophrenia (for that matter, catatonic schizophrenia may not be related to schizophrenia... it's complicated).

I thought this name refers to Asperger's Syndrome, because that's what Hans Asperger called his discovery.

I have discussed these two with my psychologist:

1. People with autism are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and psychosis.
2. People with autism make concrete statements which can be misinterpreted as paranoid or psychotic. A misdiagnosis of depression or psychosis is common, especially combined with lack of affect.

never ever heard of something called autism psychosis.

I have autism and borderline personality disorder along side with psychotic episodes and paranoia- this is down to mental health illness, i been told mainly people with BPD have this diagnoses because they had been abused as a child and treatment didnt work and i got worse throughout the year so i am being referred to a therapy that can help my BPD called dialectical behaviour therapy.

So i have both i know the symptoms seem the same but i can tell that mostly that my low mood, and relationships, impulsivity, feeling like i am being abandoned, emotional unstable, trouble with anger are my main area of BPD and dissociation = feeling like im in a dreamy world spaced out feeling like an alien all adds up to my BPD.

I do hear and see things that arent there. it freaks me out as i am in the lounge with house mates there wondering whats going on because when i jump i make noises or i scream because i am having psychotic episodes.

The rest consists of my autism like I find it difficult to speak up, find it difficult to speak in groups, find it difficult to understand jokes and expressions, find it difficult to understand how people feel, find it difficult to tell people how im feeling, having obsessions and many more.

but i also got learning disabilities too one were diagnosed at age 9 called dyspraxia it explained why i fell over all the time and the other just general learning disability which means i am good at some things but struggle in other areas such as maths i cant times numbers and divide etc.

Before autism was used for what we know now as autism, it was used for schizophrenia.
People with schizophrenia tend to suffer from psychosis.