Thanks - the first five years following my diagnosis i spent actively resarching what schizophrenia meant. it was first coined as 'the schizophrenias' by a humanist doctor as it was previously referred to as s kind of dementia - however it has assumed many negative connotations since. the link between autism and schizophrenia is a promising one as you couldnt possibly get two more diametrically opposed labels in terms of public perception. Some of the original schizophrenias were hebophrenia - from the greek god hebes associated with onset in adolescence , apophenia meaning relating one unconnected thing with another etc etc , however the name has become homogenized over the recent years - there are of course links with previous hypotheses such as the bicameral mind and up and coming theories such as 'unfocussed semantic activation in the right hemisphere of the brain'. i have made a FOIA request to the bbc regarding which WHO ICD classification each criminal that a news story was reported on with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in the previous six months had and recieved the response that they could not disclose this due to patient confidentiality unless it was reported in the open courts which was highly unlikely. i have forwarded their response to the research and information compliance dpeartment of the courts to ask them to consider this. i belive the next ICD classification is due to be released in 2011/2012 and i intend to continue my campaign for the change of this damaging label till then. I am also a qualified social worker , registered unconditionally with the gscc and work part time as a web development consultant for the university of northumbria at newcastle. Where is the tilde on an apple mac keyboard?? §§§§ lol