Comorbidity of Autism and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (Draft Informative Essay)

The purpose of this paper is to inform others of how DMDD can go hand in hand with ASD, and what signs to look for, as DMDD is as I said a fairly new diagnosis. It is an important subject to me as my son is diagnosed on the spectrum and until recently with DMDD as well as PTSD. According to Haruvi-Lamdan, Horesh, Zohar, Kraus, and Golan (2020) although PTSD has not been widely studied as a co-occurrence with autism a study was done with 25 adults with ASD and 25 adults without in regards to social and non-social events. Adults with ASD ranked 32% and adults without was 4% with PTSD in social and non-social settings. Children and adults with ASD are more vulnerable to trauma than those without ASD, which shows that PTSD should be more closely looked at as a co-occurrence with ASD (Haruvi-Lamdan et al., 2020). Since PTSD has not been researched enough as a co-occurrence in ASD I will not talk about the two as co-occurring diseases.