Diseases with symptoms similar to Autism?!
Question: or any tie-ins with human traits.
Answers: or any tie-ins with human traits.
I'm not sure what you mean.
Mental disorders like Schizophrenia, Schizoid Personality Disorder and Reactive Attachment Disorder have similarities to autism. Autism used to be called "Childhood Schizophrenia." Some forms of autism (such as Asperger's) have qualities similar to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The most severe form of Autism (Austisic Disorder) generally includes the full symptoms of ADHD.
It doesn't really make sense to compare a mental disorder with a physical disorder; they are diagnosed and treated separately, unless the mental health symptoms are so short term they resolve completely when the physical disorder is treated.
For example, someone could have Autism of unknown etiology (meaning the doctor isn't sure what caused it), Autism due to lead poisoning, Autism due to anoxic brain damage, etc. Autism could be related to cerebral palsy or epilepsy. People who are blind or deaf often have self-stimulatory behavior, and so do people with autism.
Some might have personality traits that could be part of a mental disorder if they are considered severe enough, but if the traits are mild they are usually not considered significant by doctors.
Autism is nearly identical to mercury/aluminum poisoning. Which, coincidently, the two also happens to be big in vaccines!
The following conditions are similar to high-funtioning autism. Autism in Rett Syndrome is probably secondary. Reactive Attachment Disorder and Hospitalism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder are all psychogenic, but the symptoms are often indistiguishable from Asperger's Syndrome so the DSM IV generally cautions against diagnosing autism without first looking for a history of abuse or neglect.
Reactive Attachment Disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_at...
ADHD
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publicati...
Schizoid Personality Disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_pe...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-...
Rett Syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rett_syndro...
Hospitalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitalism
First autism is not a disease. Autism covers a very broad range.
I know more about Aspergers which is on the high functioning end of the spectrum. Aspergers is where the brain is actually wired differently. MRI's show the differences. My partner has Aspergers and I work with a group that is educating people on it.
A laundry list of diagnosis' may be given before the correct one is found. There also may be coexisting diagnosis'. Some times with Aspergers anxiety accompanies it.