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Originally Posted by Chaliponga
I was diagnosed with high functioning autism, but I'm not sure if my mental state actually has anything in common with people with severe autism. In my case, I don't have any hallucinations and the only kind of psychosis I am prone to is drug induced. I'm prone to cannabis induced psychosis, and when I was smoking it regularly years ago, I had some of the symptoms of schizophrenia (hearing voices, paranoid delusions etc.). Since I quit cannabis, those symptoms have more or less subsided completely.
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How did the process of diagnosing go? Was it a parent or yourself who noticed that something was wrong?
I am curious because high functioning autism must be hard to spot, especially if family is unsuspecting and often plain ignorant.