A 18-year-old member asked:
What's the difference b/t aspergers and schytziphrinia ?
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Dr. Danny Westmorelandanswered
Family Medicine 38 years experience
Yes: Schizophrenia is associated with an inability of maintaining reality. The latter is a form of autism that is a developmental disorder of unkown cause.
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Dr. Susan Uhrichanswered
Psychiatry 38 years experience
Schizophrenia: Involves symptoms that asperger's doesn't. With schizophrenia, there are delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and/or negative symptoms that are not present with asperger's.
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