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Was Autism Once Called Childhood Schizophrenia in the UK

Aaron

On a recent YouTube video ( Dr Kara Dymond Ep11 Changes in the Autism Discourse) Tony Atwood who is from the UK said that in the 70s Autism was sometimes regarded as Childhood Schizophrenia. I thought that this was the case in the USA mostly in the 50s. Does anyone know if this was true in the UK in the 70s.  I ask because I am going through an Autism Assessment.

However in the 70s as a teenager I was given injections that were usually given to people with Schizophrenia. I had such horrific side effects that I was twice taken to A and E in an ambulance with convulsions. The fear was in the same range as accidents, severe burns and road accident as a child. I ran away from Psychiatry for years. However much later I was referred to a Psychiatrist who said I was not Schizophrenic.

What’s it all about folks?

  • MY experience was that when I took an Asperger's test in my late fifties, and scored quite high, I went to the reddit Asperger's group, and read the stories there to see what it was all about.

    They described as a symptom of their aspergers pretty much all the mental illnesses I'd learned about in my 50+ years long quest to figure out what was "wrong" with me! I said to myself I don't think I want to be having any of this... But apparently I don't get a choice.

    I can sympathise with a doctor who says "he deffo isn't normal, this is the best fit..." but they are more assertive about it, than in my fictional quote, and once you have whatever label you "won" it's bloody hard to get re-evaluated...