i’ve been reading about personality disorders and I feel like a lot of the symptoms fit autism as well. both have a rigid and “unhealthy” patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving, troubles perceiving and relating to situations and people, the early age of onset, both are pernament
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The real, if a bit unfortunate answer is that most neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental (and indeed even neurodegenerative) disorders are like constellations.
Symptoms are like stars, and until we figure out exactly what’s going wrong in the bodies/brains of people with ASD, BPD, bipolar, OCD, vs. NT folks, we’re largely just drawing imaginary lines around them. Definitions always changing, often overlapping, mired in things like historical context and the sudden surge in ASD prevalence.
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