Thank you all for the welcome.
Replying now to bentHnau, the mutual exclusiveness between AS and SPD is just coded in DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10. (I just ignore DSM-5, where SPD is gone.) In both cases, the mutual exclusiveness is asymmetric, in that it is specified
only on the SPD side and not on the AS side. This apparent inconsistency in the definitions of AS and SPD can be interpreted in two possible ways:
1. The authors of DSM-IV and ICD-10 just did not check the consistency of the definitions. Extremely unlikely.
2. When DSM-IV and ICD-10 speak of SPD they are referring exclusively to the SPD of NTs.
In the case of DSM-IV, interpretation 2 is consistent with the general definition of personality disorders:
DSM-IV-TR said:
General diagnostic criteria for a Personality Disorder
A. An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that ...
E. The enduring pattern is not better accounted for as a manifestation or consequence of another mental disorder.
Thus, if an aspie develops "an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior" exactly the same as that described by SPD, since that enduring pattern is a consequence of his AS, the aspie is not diagnosed SPD. Which is clearly ridiculous since for all practical purposes the aspie has SPD, but that's the way official psychiatry works.
In the case of ICD-10, interpretation 2 is supported by the fact that ICD-10 gives as a synonym for AS "schizoid disorder of childhood", and is further supported by the fact that codes F60-F69, which include SPD as F60.1, is named "Disorders of
adult personality and behavior".
Curiously, in ICD-10 the exclusion between AS and OCD (F42) and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (F60.5) is asymmetric but the other way round, in that it is specified only on the AS side. As experience tells unequivocally that aspies frequently have OCD or OCPD, the only way to interpret this exclusion is the same as in the case of SPD: it refers only to the OCD and OCPD of NTs. This is further confirmed by the fact that the definition of OCD (F42) specifies: "However, obsessional symptoms developing in the presence of schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, or
organic mental disorder should be regarded as part of these conditions." (And clearly AS, as any other condition within the ASD spectrum, is a case of "organic mental disorder".)
PS: it seems that the system automatically expands the acronym O C D (without intermediate spaces).
