History of developmental delay

From my late adolescence and adulthood

Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder from my late childhood and adolescence

Symptoms of developmental delay from my early childhood 

If you at least had symptoms of restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior that caused you great distress from early childhood, you are considered to have the mildest form of Autism.

A mild form of Autism includes social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior from early childhood.

Moderate form of Autism includes clear deficits in verbal and nonverbal social communication skills in addition to apparent social impairments from early to late childhood.

Severe Autism may include, lack of social skills, extremely impaired communication, repetitive behavior.

Profound Autism may include, intellectual disability (an IQ of 69 or below). Symptoms may include impaired social communications or interactions, bizarre behavior, and lack of social or emotional reciprocity. Sleep problems, aggressiveness, and self-injurious behavior are also possible frequent occurrences.[10] LFA is not a recognized diagnosis in the DSM-5 or ICD-10.

Asperger's Syndrome  is often referred to as "High Functioning Autism" (  the mildest form of Autism ), and many experts agree that Autism should be diagnosed on a spectrum. 

It can be so obvious that it's diagnosed at a very young age, or so mild that, like some living beings, a living being  could largely "blend in" and only be diagnosed after learning, hearing about it or you can have Autism that was never diagnosed for the rest of your life

If you guys think or are suspicious that you might have Autism or any related developmental disorder, I suggest that you can use at least three websites to get the score you need and make an update with the medical professionals, if you scored high in Autism tests

aspietests.org 

rdos.net 

psychcentral.com/quizzes/autism-quiz 

Fun fact:

You can have some kind of rare form of Pervasive Developmental Disorder or even undiagnosed Atypical Autism

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/even-baby-sibs-without-autism-show-delays-in-first-year/

Symptoms of severe to profound forms of Autism and other profound developmental disorders may include:

1. Intellectual disability (an IQ of 69 or below).

2. Impaired social communications or interactions, bizarre behavior, and lack of social or

emotional reciprocity

3. Delusional interests and bizarre behaviors

4. Sleep problems, aggressiveness, and self-injurious behavior are also possible frequent

occurrences

5. Lack of eye contact, inadequate body language and a lack of emotional or physical

response to others' behaviors and emotions

6. lack of communication (both oral communication – i.e. nonverbal autism – and body

language), Repetitive use of words or phrases, and lack of imaginative play skills.

7. Respond only to very direct external social interaction from others

8. severe deficits in communication skills (verbal and nonverbal), inflexibility of behavior, extreme difficulty coping with change, and extreme difficulty

with shifting focus and attention. Individuals with level 3 autism would initiate very limited amounts of social interactions and would respond only to

direct social approaches from others.

Wikipedia states that it is common for individuals with PDD-NOS to have more intact social skills and a lower level of intellectual deficit than individuals with other PDDs.

Characteristics of many individuals with PDD-NOS or anyone like me are:

● Communication difficulties (e.g., using and understanding language)[6]

● Difficulty with social behavior

● Difficulty with changes in routines or environments

● Uneven skill development (strengths in some areas and delays in others

● Unusual play with toys and other objects

● Repetitive body movements or behavior patterns

● Preoccupation with fantasy, such as imaginary friends in childhood

Other symptoms of Autism includes:

● Making little or inconsistent eye contact

● Tending not to look at or listen to people

● Rarely sharing enjoyment of objects or activities by pointing or showing things to

others

● Failing to, or being slow to, respond to someone calling their name or to other

verbal attempts to gain attention

● Having difficulties with the back and forth of conversation

● Often talking at length about a favorite subject without noticing that others are not

interested or without giving others a chance to respond

● Having facial expressions, movements, and gestures that do not match what is

being said

● Having an unusual tone of voice that may sound sing-song or flat and robot-like

● Having trouble understanding another person’s point of view or being unable to

predict or understand other people’s actions

Asperger's Syndrome is multifaceted, with varying degrees of severity in the key symptoms:

● Difficulty in social interaction, often due to issues with nonverbal communication

● Specific subjects of interest, often manifesting as a borderline obsession with a few

areas and/or hobbies

● IQ can vary, but is generally higher than average

● Surpressed and/or difficulty expressing emotions

I used to have profound developmental disorders from my early childhood.

It got milder, because I had IEP plans and meetings.

When I was 0-8 years old, I had some symptoms of Profound Developmental Disorder.

When I was 9-10 years old, I had some symptoms of PDD-NOS.

When I was 11-19 years old, I had some symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome

Now I feel like I have Learning Disorders, with Broad Autism Phenotype.

Now as an adult, I am very good at reading and understanding emotions, facial cues and body languages.

I made a university level conclusion about mental health, development, personalities and criminality.

To make it simple. Most people with mental health and developmental disorders are ten times more likely to be victims than being perpetrators.

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=395603

There is a psychotic component to having Pervasive Developmental Disorders, even though the the DSM-5 only show this; Persistent deficits in social communication and Severity is based on social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior. But I think ASD is way more than just that.

However people with ASD can have an IQ under 80+ or above 80+

This is what ASD is:

Problems that I have for my age twenty:

• History of speech delay and Learning Disorder and borderline IQ ( specific IQ is unknown)

• Manipulative daydreaming (from my early childhood to adulthood)

• Missing some social cues (from my early to late adulthood)

• Missed all social cues (from my early childhood)

• Stereotypical movements (from my early to late childhood)

• Mania and depressive episodes with psychotic features (from my early childhood to adulthood)

• Not understanding simple language ( from my early childhood)

• Violence and psychotic episodes if my environment changed without notice (from my early childhood to adulthood)

• Delusional perception of the world (from my early childhood)

• Unconventional perception of the world (from my late childhood to adulthood)

• Different severity of sensory issues ( from my early childhood to adulthood)

• Obsessiveness-compulsive interests (from my early childhood to adulthood)

There is a psychotic component to having Pervasive Developmental Disorders, even though the the DSM-5 only show this; Persistent deficits in social communication and Severity is based on social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior. But I think ASD is way more than just that.

However people with ASD can have an IQ under 80+ or above 80+

This is what ASD is:

ASD level 2-3:

• Missing some social cues

• Missed all social cues

• Difficulty using and understanding language.[7]

• Difficulty relating to people, objects, and

• events;[7] for example, lack of eye contact, pointing behavior, and lack of facial responses

• Unusual play with toys and other objects.[7]

• Difficulty with changes in routine may result in hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking, social withdrawal, decreased emotional expression, and apathy..[7]

• Repetitive body movements or behavior patterns,[7] such as hand flapping, hair twirling, foot tapping, or more complex movements.

• Inability to cuddle or be comforted.

• Difficulty regulating behaviors and emotions, which may result in temper tantrums, anxiety, and aggression.

• Emotional breakdowns.

• Preoccupation with fantasies that interfere and that are not normal to have at a certain age depending on social, cultural and religious norms.

• Delusional perception of the world

• Different severity of sensory issues

• Manipulative daydreaming

• Bizarre interests

ASD level 1:

It is common for individuals with ASD level1 to have more intact social skills and a lower level of intellectual deficit than individuals with other Levels of ASD level 2-3.[3] Characteristics of many individuals with ASD level 1 are:

• Communication difficulties (e.g., using and understanding language)[7]

• Difficulty with social behavior

• Paranoia, a characteristic form of social anxiety, derealization, transient psychosis, and unconventional beliefs if the environment changed without further notice

• Uneven skill development (strengths in some areas and delays in others)

• Unusual play with toys and other objects

• Repetitive body movements or behavior patterns

• Preoccupation with fantasies that interfere and that are not normal to have at a certain age depending on social, cultural and religious norms.

• Unconventional perception of the world

• Manipulative daydreaming

• Obsessive-compulsive interests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_developmental_disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_developmental_disorder_not_otherwise_specified

The reason why people with High-functioning Autism have the same criminal rates as the general population, is because they can preform neurotypical tasks, have average or above average IQ and they tend to have more intact social skills than all other ASD population.

Heck, people with this form of Autism can do military jobs and join the army.

ASD is such a broad disorder that even convicted criminals can be diagnosed with some form of ASD in jails or prisons.

This was once known as PDD-NOS where a person does not have all traits of Asperger Syndrome, but have some form of developmental disorder related to Autistic Disorder, but a mildest form of ASD.

My history of developmental delay and mental health crisis

My history of developmental delay and mental health crisis. 

High-functioning Schizophrenia