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Apparently psychotic like experiences are common in Autism.

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The Autistic girl

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Existing research shows that adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more vulnerable to develop psychotic like experiences. However, studies investigating (subclinical) psychotic experiences (PE) in ASD are scarce, and it is unknown if PE are accompanied with more distress in adults with ASD compared to the general population. This study examined lifetime PE and accompanying distress, momentary PE levels, and the impact of daily life stress and negative affect (NA) on momentary PE in males and females with ASD compared to controls.

Psychotic experiences can occur in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

I have a diagnosis of psychotic like experiences and Asperger's syndrome. Anyone else?
 
I get psychosis and DID and DPDR

I get tactile, gustatory, olfactory, visual and auditory hallucinations. Was quite horrible when I was going through PTSD and flashbacks. Alot of blood and violent type stuff...

I've gotten past PTSD now. After so many people trying to convince me it was a permanent condition
 
The Autistic girl said:
Existing research shows that adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more vulnerable to develop psychotic like experiences. However, studies investigating (subclinical) psychotic experiences (PE) in ASD are scarce, and it is unknown if PE are accompanied with more distress in adults with ASD compared to the general population. This study examined lifetime PE and accompanying distress, momentary PE levels, and the impact of daily life stress and negative affect (NA) on momentary PE in males and females with ASD compared to controls.

Psychotic experiences can occur in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

I have a diagnosis of psychotic like experiences and Asperger's syndrome. Anyone else?
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Can you give link to the study please.
 
What do you mean by psychotic?

I have anxiety disorder but that's as far as my mental health goes. I don't think I've ever been psychotic.
 
I deal with severe anxiety issues, most of it is my dysfunctional mom and brother. I have been on anxiety meds twice. I have been on antidepressants once, they saved my life.
 
When you're constantly forced to pretend you're "normal" while surrounded by NT humans in a world where hating anyone or anything that's "not normal" is "normalized", how can you *not* suffer from psychosis?

I get it, in the study they might as well be saying all autistic adults need to be euthanized.
 
So from reading the conclusions of the study (and only that) my understanding is that people with ASD weren't measured as more likely to have some form psychosis than the control group, but that (with the suggestion this was due to increased anxiety) they were more likely to suffer momentary psychosis. This seems to suggest that ASD isn't directly correlated to PE, but has a confounding factor (anxiety).
 
"The relationship between psychotic illnesses (particularly schizophrenia) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is complex, with suggestions that there is substantial overlap between the two conditions. However, they differ considerably in age at onset, with the former usually first becoming apparent in adolescence and early adulthood and the latter in early childhood. People with ASD may experience comorbid psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (we have termed this comorbidity ‘ASD–P’), and evidence is accumulating that individuals with ASD are at greater risk of developing psychotic illnesses than those in the general population. One study indicated rates as high as 28%."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376719/
 
So many autistics seem to have suffered abuse, particularly from their own families, so maybe there might be a connection with autistics with (C)PTSD having psychotic disorders. I don't know though, it's just a thought.
 
Interesting to read how hallucinations can be separately categorized in terms of being harmful or benign. And that a hallucination is considered to be a psychotic symptom only if a person considers what they experienced was real. Equally interesting to read that not all forms of psychosis and hallucinations are necessarily negative or harmful.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/23350-hallucinations

 
The closest I come to hallucinations or believing voices in my head is when I have the creeps after watching something really creepy on the TV or internet and it's night, but that's so normal for humans, that it's hardly fair to compare it to actual schizophrenia or having psychotic hallucinations, etc.
But it's sometimes a way to imagine how it must feel for some with a psychosis disorder to a degree. There's nothing wrong with trying to imagine what I've never experienced, through normal behaviours.

But pease don't be offended though. It's just my input and I'm not trying to undermine anyone who suffers psychotic-like experiences.
 
Misty Avich said:
The closest I come to hallucinations or believing voices in my head is when I have the creeps after watching something really creepy on the TV or internet and it's night, but that's so normal for humans, that it's hardly fair to compare it to actual schizophrenia or having psychotic hallucinations, etc.
But it's sometimes a way to imagine how it must feel for some with a psychosis disorder to a degree. There's nothing wrong with trying to imagine what I've never experienced, through normal behaviours.

But pease don't be offended though. It's just my input and I'm not trying to undermine anyone who suffers psychotic-like experiences.
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Not for me. I’m having shapes and shadow people manifest fairly often now. My mind will even believe someone is there even with me knowing no one is.
 
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