Multiple Complex (or Multiplex) Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
Anyone heard of it? I stumbled across it when I was looking into the historical schizophrenia-autism connection.
I'm trying to figure out what diagnosis makes most sense and part of that is looking into family history of mental pathology... and there's A LOT of it. On both sides. The men tend to have typical asperger traits. They were just dismissed as eccentric and left to their own devices.
The women, however got diagnosed shizophrenic, sometimes from childhood. Although they didn't necessarily "hear voices", more that they had unusual, enduring, consuming preoccupations. Writers, mostly.
The closest relations are my grandma and my Aunt. My grandma ended up with a pre-frontal lobotomy and turned into a zombie-like scrabble genius. My Aunt killed herself, but not before mysteriously disappearing on several occassions... at least once to Mexico.
And my brother got a schizophrenia diagnosis, although he's always been more Autism-Spectrumy. And I have a great Aunt who here's voices, and takes anti-psychotics... but she's one of the smartest people I've ever met. And her voices are hilarious.
But still, not a pretty picture.
Anyways McDD is considered autism-spectum, kind of like PDD-[N]OS. It includes psychotic symptoms, neurotic/behavioural symptoms, autistic symptoms, and neurological symptoms. These overlap a bit.
But I noticed that, on the wiki page at least, this counts as psychotic:
"Disorganized behavior and/or speech such as thought disorder, easy confusability, inappropriate emotions/facial expressions, uncontrollable laughter, etc."
hurray I have a psychotic symptom. Now I'm terrified that I'm going to collapse into psychotic delusion.
So, Anyone heard of McDD?
Thoughts on Schizo-Autie connection/ divergence?
>For me I think that synesthesia might be key.
ah goddd and this girl- I wish I could make the world better for her... safe? more anchored? I don't know.
I feel like I could understand her better than these obnoxious interviewers.
Anyone heard of it? I stumbled across it when I was looking into the historical schizophrenia-autism connection.
I'm trying to figure out what diagnosis makes most sense and part of that is looking into family history of mental pathology... and there's A LOT of it. On both sides. The men tend to have typical asperger traits. They were just dismissed as eccentric and left to their own devices.
The women, however got diagnosed shizophrenic, sometimes from childhood. Although they didn't necessarily "hear voices", more that they had unusual, enduring, consuming preoccupations. Writers, mostly.
The closest relations are my grandma and my Aunt. My grandma ended up with a pre-frontal lobotomy and turned into a zombie-like scrabble genius. My Aunt killed herself, but not before mysteriously disappearing on several occassions... at least once to Mexico.
And my brother got a schizophrenia diagnosis, although he's always been more Autism-Spectrumy. And I have a great Aunt who here's voices, and takes anti-psychotics... but she's one of the smartest people I've ever met. And her voices are hilarious.
But still, not a pretty picture.
Anyways McDD is considered autism-spectum, kind of like PDD-[N]OS. It includes psychotic symptoms, neurotic/behavioural symptoms, autistic symptoms, and neurological symptoms. These overlap a bit.
But I noticed that, on the wiki page at least, this counts as psychotic:
"Disorganized behavior and/or speech such as thought disorder, easy confusability, inappropriate emotions/facial expressions, uncontrollable laughter, etc."
hurray I have a psychotic symptom. Now I'm terrified that I'm going to collapse into psychotic delusion.
So, Anyone heard of McDD?
Thoughts on Schizo-Autie connection/ divergence?
>For me I think that synesthesia might be key.
ah goddd and this girl- I wish I could make the world better for her... safe? more anchored? I don't know.
I feel like I could understand her better than these obnoxious interviewers.
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