Autistic Brains Function Oppositely to Psychotic Ones

According to the diametric model of mental illness, superficially similar social deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and psychotic spectrum disorders such as schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) have opposite causes: hyper-mentalizing in the latter case, and hypo-mentalizing in ASD. In other words, while autistics don’t mentalize enough, psychotics mentalize too much; where autistics don’t seem to have minds at all, psychotic suffer from cancers of the minds they do have.