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Question if cluster A personalty disorders can be co-morbid with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Can Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Disorder/Schizotypal Personality Disorder and /or both be co-morbid with Autism Spectrum Disorder?

I meet some of the both diagnostic criteria for Schizotypal Disorder/Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Schizotypal Personality Disorder, alongside with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

  • Yes, it can. I'm co morbid with Schizophrenia and ASPD. Dawn's right though, it can be easily mistaken and lead to misdiagnosis. I saw multiple professionals before they diagnosed me with the above. Sad truth is get more support for my mental health than I do for the Autism which is annoying because Autism bothers me most.

  • in reply to Desmond79

    Are the services able to differentiate for you and give you the right support for both? I hope so, as so offen I hear of them dismissing real distress due to other issues as "it's only your autism" as if no real support is really needed.

  • I'm co-morbid with Schizoaffective/Bipolar. 

  • Yes, they can be, but it is also possible for some behavioural features of autism to be mistaken for PDs. It would take very careful assessment to examine the apparent symptom and work out which are due to what.

    I have every admiration for thoes folk who have both, own their problems, and are trying to address them. But there are also very many who have been misdiagnosed with PDs, leading to services stigmatising them and failing to recognise or support their autism. Tell me about that one!

    And some recent research I've been reading has pointed to a vast number of psychiatric conditions diagnosed for autistic people (often BPD), and more often women, which were removed when their autism was identified, because in fact they never had a personality disorder.

    The "support"/ treatment for anything you DON'T actually have is likely to be harmful. It is very important to get this right. Basically, if any diagnosis hasn't been properly done, or doesn't feel like it is really sitting right with your feelings, thought and emotions, I'd challenge it.

    You can only get the right help with the right diagnosis. It is equally harmful to miss a PD if one exists, as to diagnose one where it does not.