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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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