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7:00pm May 22, 2014
Anonymous asked: How is autism mistaken for Bipolar disorder?

autisticdrift:

  • Autistic infodumping or difficulties with prosody (controlling speech speed and volume) can resemble the pressured speech of manic episodes 
  • Alexithymia or difficulty with emotional regulation can resemble mood changes or cycling of bipolar disorder
  • Executive function impairment can resemble the impulsivity, inability to complete tasks and distraction of manic episodes and the difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions of depressive episodes
  • Irregular sleep habits are common to both conditions
  • Autistic burnout or withdrawal can be mistaken for a depressive episode

Also autistic people often have cycles of intense perseveration followed by crashing, that can look exactly like mania and depression.

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    Good advice. I suspected I had autism as well as my bipolar but on further inspection bipolar causes it’s own set of...
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    they do say studies have shown a high comorbidity of autism with mood disorders – usually depression or...
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