Abuse and Psychological Problems?

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I had been abused for as long as I can remember.
In first grade, a few incidents I remember were:
1) my mother accused me of messing up papers and stuff in the old entertainment center, then gave me "15 seconds" to get it fixed. Of course, when she got to two, she just skipped to 15, then claimed that she was the mom and didn't have to count all the way to 15.
2) I was forbidden to look in the notebook I wrote my notes in. One incident I remember was that if I didn't get what was done the right way I would be locked in the spare room for life. And I think one time she actually did.
More incidents with my mom include:
Her beating me with a spatula, her breaking my fingers with a hammer, her calling me names on two occassions, throwing ice cold water at me, making me lift encyclopedias in the air while standing on one foot, which I did for about 20 minutes.
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At this point, if it's not my mother getting me agitated, it is other people being stupid. Like one time, I went to an OVR meeting (OVR = Office of Vocational Rehabilitation) and I thought she told me that with this program she was putting me on I would not be allowed to pursue the career I want. Another incident included me at a PHN appoinment (PHN = Primary Health Network) and I accused the woman of tampering with the electronic pad of which I needed to check in, which meant while I could usually check in with four taps, I had to re-enter information all over again.
That made me extremely agitated.
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Which makes me ask the following questions:
Does an autistic adolescent who has been abused end up with bipolar in their early teens?
Do they end up becoming schizophrenic in their early 20s?
Does their bipolar, if they have it, get worse and worse when they become an adult?
Do some suffer PTSD in their late teens or early adulthood? (That means being depressed or anxious or agitated enough at small things to be diagnosed with the disease.)
Are there any other psychological problems that you have? If you are an adult, how did it progress? Did you get better with help, or did you get worse?

1.I do not have bipolar, as other ones i know who have been abused.
2.I do not know any cases of this.
3.From what i did read it depends.
4.I did read about cases of it, so i assume factually "some" do.
5.Far too good memory, apart from that alot of things that i couldn't really describe.
6.Not an adult and not experienced that.
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I guess it's something i could contribute.
Anyways, to cut it short, i feel very sorry for you. I assume you have at least bipolar.

Generally imo a thing many people with psychological issues do not notice is how important it is to try to actually understand your own thoughts, which also would make it easier to structure those.

I have PTSD but not bipolar or Schizophrenia. I am pretty sure that most people who have been abused as children whether Autistic or not, are very likely to develop PTSD. I don't know about the other two disorders though. I don't think you have to be abused to develop the others but I cannot say for sure. I also don't think that if someone is Autistic and abused that they will necessarily develop the other two. I think they are separate. I can't say that you can't develop them as and abused Autistic person but I don't think that being abused and Autistic means that you will develop them. But I am not a doctor so I can only guess.