In 1911, Swiss psychiatrist Paul Bleuler published a 500-plus-page book about disorders characterized by difficulties with understanding emotions, reading social cues and thinking about others’ beliefs.Sounds a lot like autism, doesn’t it? Bleuler’s subject was actually schizophrenia or, as he called it, “the group of schizophrenias.”Scientists have debated the relationship between autism and schizophrenia for decades. The two disorders are different in many obvious ways — autism crops up in childhood and is marked by an indifference toward other people, whereas schizophrenia appears in adolescence or adulthood and often comes with paranoid thoughts and delusions about others.Read more at...SFARI, December 2010.