Do i Have Schizophrenia And Aspergers?? Whats the Difference

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i Think i Might Have Schizophrenia i Never Told The Doctors i Have Delusions i Pretend To Be A Person With A Website called "Christen's World" With Billions Of People Adoring Me And A video Blog i Pretend To Hold An iPod And Talk To Them In the bathroom in school ^_^ , i Also Have Done That For 3 Years ever since 7th grade i Would Dance for them and Rant To Them i Was a singer/dancer/movie star. i Even Pretended To Be Pregnant for Months then had an abortion. lol Sometimes i Hear The Call Of The People That Adore Me. is this just aspergers ? im starting to worry :\ i' m a 16 year old girl. also i ALWAYS feel like someone is spying on me i always check in my closet and under my bed every time i enter my room or leave my room in my house and look out the window every few minutes I have done That for 4 years

Do you "just" pretend those things OR do you really believe those things at that time?

Believe those things

Or it could be bipolar. I'm going to include a link to a psychiatrist from Emory saying there's a lot if overlap between schizophrenia and bipolar.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/expert.q ... index.html

Or, if you don't currently have positive social connections, you could be inventing a world where you do. And it could even be healthy to an extent.

Eventually, you probably want to find a doctor who's at least halfway a good listener (not all doctors are!)

I nearly got diagnosed schizophrenic by mistake. You need to be sure on whether you know what you are doing is fantasy or whether you actually believe it is real. Good luck

People with schizophrenia have hallucinations and delusions that are very real to them. If you honestly believe you're something that you're not,, like a religious figure or person of high authority, or you hear voices that sound like they come from somewhere else, you may be schizophrenia. Because of our difficulty being social and our unusual interests people with Asperger's may appear to have schizophrenia-like symptoms to people who know nothing about either condition and are full of negative, outdated, untrue beliefs and the stigma surrounding them. I was actually diagnosed at around 13 with schizophrenia form disorder and lived with that label until I was re-diagnosed with Asperger's in my mid-20's. Doing so very likely saved me from certain doom.

You can get plenty of help support and advice from others on WP and in other places, but if you want a definitive diagnosis you will have to make a leap of faith and go to a psychiatrist and be honest, risking a diagnosis you may not like, and a treatment you aren't happy with.
Only a qualified professional can diagnose you,
That said, there seems to be some correlation and intermingling of symptoms of schizophrenia and autistic traits, in what some researchers would refer to as a mental health bandwidth or spectrum. This is still in the hypothetical stages, and more research needs to be done, but it does appear that mental health including autism, bipolar, schizophrenia, and other psychotic, and related illnesses fall on some sort of bandwidth.

I'd suggest you find a very trusted and respected friend of family member, and ask them to accompany you to a professional for diagnosis. You should also be aware that it may take several appointments, and if it appears to be autism (Asperger's has been reclassified as high functioning autism in the new DSM), then you may need to be referred to an autism specialist for definitive diagnosis.
Good luck, and I hope that you have all the support you need as you go through the difficult experience of recognition, understanding and finding acceptance in who you are and what condition you may need to deal with.

Noone can tell you here for sure.

Tony Attwood writes about it that autistics very often have a high level of phantasy and some also start living in their phantasy world, especially as children. But the difference to schizophrenics is that autistics can get out of their phantasy world by themselfs.

Also schizotypal PD and ASD are more common together (and also have a symptom overlapp, you have to differentiate) and you can have also "psychotic episodes" in bipolar (depression or mania) and also of course in schizoaffective.

The best is you go to a psychiatrist to get checked or even get a second opinion. That's what I usually do to be sure.

No-one here can diagnose you. It may seem like to you as though you truly believe in the psychosis, but it's a difficult one. Even when mentioning the paranoia I'm experiencing to my psych, she wasn't sure if it was truly psychosis or not. What was worrying her though, is that I was making plans to act on the paranoia. I was so convinced that I was hearing other peoples thoughts and knew what they were saying, and convinced they were planning to kill me, that I confessed to her that I was planning on carrying a knife out with me for protection, or going and killing the person before they can kill me.

It will take a long time. More than one session, more than one assessment. A lot of us here with Schizophrenia or Bipolar have been misdiagnosed several times over the years, and have only received a diagnosis years after we asked for help. That sadly, is the reality of the mental health treatment available. There's no tests that will show up positive or negative for what mental illness you have. It's simply a psychiatrist, and what you share with them.