The fact that you are cognitively aware of these symptoms suggests you have the intellect to discern the reality from delusion. This may be the difference between "mental illness" and someone without,...as by the definitions of both Freguli experiences and anosognosia, the affected person is unaware of their condition,...but you are.
I am certainly no psychologist or psychiatrist, as I do see things more from a medical model. However, there may be something to be said for being autistic,...perhaps some saving grace, per se. That is to suggest, that from my experience with reading the many thousands of posts here on the forums,...autistics, in general, tend to be quite insightful about themselves, quite concerned with their mental well-being,...and very self-aware of how they perceive things versus others. Proof, in my mind, autism clearly is NOT a mental illness,...quite the opposite, in fact.
Having said that, most of us are quite aware of the neurodiversity within the autistic population. Certainly from a medical model, it has been well demonstrated that autistic brains are structurally different than that of a so-called neurotypical,...down to the cellular level. With that, there are documented cases of quite a range of extraordinary abilities,...and disabilities,...as well as, a range of symptoms associated with neurological connections between areas of the brain that normally shouldn't be. In your case, "Freguli-like" and "anosognosia-like" experiences. Especially when I was younger, certainly less so now, I would occasionally see people that were not there,...quite distressing to a young child trying to explain to an adult who didn't believe them,...as well as, full-on premonitions that I could react to,...actually saving a life in the hospital,...to feeling the energy release of a person dying...woke me up from a deep sleep, knew exactly what happened, noted the time on the clock. I think there was a thread on this forum a while back where several people had all sorts of interesting experiences to share.
Obviously, from the medical model, there is likely some explanation for all of this,...it's just that we know very little about the brain, in general. Any neurologist and neurosurgeon will certainly admit this,...a seemingly infinite amount of questions to be asked and answered.
I am certainly no psychologist or psychiatrist, as I do see things more from a medical model. However, there may be something to be said for being autistic,...perhaps some saving grace, per se. That is to suggest, that from my experience with reading the many thousands of posts here on the forums,...autistics, in general, tend to be quite insightful about themselves, quite concerned with their mental well-being,...and very self-aware of how they perceive things versus others. Proof, in my mind, autism clearly is NOT a mental illness,...quite the opposite, in fact.
Having said that, most of us are quite aware of the neurodiversity within the autistic population. Certainly from a medical model, it has been well demonstrated that autistic brains are structurally different than that of a so-called neurotypical,...down to the cellular level. With that, there are documented cases of quite a range of extraordinary abilities,...and disabilities,...as well as, a range of symptoms associated with neurological connections between areas of the brain that normally shouldn't be. In your case, "Freguli-like" and "anosognosia-like" experiences. Especially when I was younger, certainly less so now, I would occasionally see people that were not there,...quite distressing to a young child trying to explain to an adult who didn't believe them,...as well as, full-on premonitions that I could react to,...actually saving a life in the hospital,...to feeling the energy release of a person dying...woke me up from a deep sleep, knew exactly what happened, noted the time on the clock. I think there was a thread on this forum a while back where several people had all sorts of interesting experiences to share.
Obviously, from the medical model, there is likely some explanation for all of this,...it's just that we know very little about the brain, in general. Any neurologist and neurosurgeon will certainly admit this,...a seemingly infinite amount of questions to be asked and answered.
