Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that involves problems with perception of reality. Autism is a developmental disorder that involves problems with theory of mind and sensory difficulties. While both disorders involve inappropriate affect (expression of emotion) and problems integrating sensory input, the disorders are completely different.
Approximately 11 people per thousand have schizophrenia. Approximately 17.4 people per thousand have autism. Autism is more common than schizophrenia.
Autism and schizophrenia are not connected at all. In fact, it has been scientifically demonstrated that if you have an allele for schizophrenia you are less likely to have autism.
Because schizophrenia and autism, while very similar in certain ways, are discrete diseases. When autism was first described, doctors thought that it was the same disease. Now, as we know more about both diseases, we see that they are fundamentally different.
There are indications that schizophrenia is both. On the one hand, people with schizophrenia may have physical damage to the brain. On the other, schizophrenia is classified under psychiatric disorders in both the DSM-IV and the ICD-10, two widely-used diagnostic tools.
Autism first appeared in the DSM in 1952 but only to describe symptoms of schizophrenia. Infantile autism was then included under the umbrella of Pervasive Developmental Disorders in 1980, changed from infantile autism to autism disorder in 1987.
Symptoms of autism and schizophrenia both can include inappropriate emotional response (including flat affect and emotions at inappropriate times), extreme sensitivity to sensory input, and preoccupation with strange topics. However, autism and schizophrenia are two completely different things and should not be confused.
One gives you lung cancer and the other gives you schizophrenia
Usually schizophrenia.
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The difference is attributed to environmental factors that impact the expression of schizophrenia.
Autism is not an intellectual or a psychological problem. Autism is a neurological difference.
There is no link between flu and schizophrenia.