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19 Jan 2012, 8:07 am

I don't know if this would be classified as childhood schizophrenia, but I remember being as young as 5 years old and having this internal voice....not audible, but as if it were my own thoughts telling me to play pretend creating elaborate scenarios I don't think a 5-7 year old could come up with......I mean, I was REALLY imaginative, and still am, but not to THAT extend....



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19 Jan 2012, 11:55 am

I heard my own thoughts loudly around that age too, and they weren't telling me to do anything. Ironically, the people who thought I had Schizophrenia and diagnosed me when I was older knew nothing about my childhood, or my life. I didn't have any kind of distorted thinking or hallucinations, no flat affect, and was successful academically and socially. I think these are typically the criterias for Schizophrenia. I do have an odd posture, but I have leg back problems which were diagnosed, plus I'm not a physically well person.


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19 Jan 2012, 10:40 pm

Childhood schizophrenia is extremely rare. I've read that the youngest recorded case was a 7-year-old.

You seem to be well aware that the voice you heard was internal and not audible. People with schizophrenia usually can't tell if the voices are real and ascribe them to external entities (people who are mocking them, neighbors who are shouting at them through the wall, gods, demons and so on).

The fact that you were socially and academically successful, and that you didn't experience negative symptoms such as reduced affect, also speaks against schizophrenia imho. Your posture could be either the result of your back problems (scoliosis?) or a symptom of an autism spectrum disorder. Just my two cents.



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20 Jan 2012, 1:22 pm

I googled the name of my back problem in Hebrew, and found out that it's indeed scoliosis in English; And I do plan to get an AS diagnosis.


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02 Feb 2012, 12:52 am

Bun wrote:
And I do plan to get an AS diagnosis.


See a specialist, or you're wasting your time. I'm still trying to get a diagnosis, but I probably never will.



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02 Feb 2012, 1:15 am

Definitely, the only option I'd want for myself is a specialist.


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16 Feb 2012, 8:33 am

As everyone said, only a specialist can tell you.

I know having imaginary friends or is pretty typical for children, so having an internal audible voice is probably pretty typical as well.

I wouldn't be too worried unless the voices were/are harmful to your emotional well-being.



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25 Feb 2012, 3:06 pm

I never had that. I never had any of that. I had a diagnosis of schizophrenia due to neglect and malpractice.



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25 Feb 2012, 8:12 pm

Schizophrenia sounds like a horrible thing to have.


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