What did you think it was before aspergers

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Before me and my dad heard of Aspergers, a few guidance counsellors thought i was Bipolar, some doctors thought i had bad hearing. I remember i asked my mom "am i autistic and you just never told me?" (i thought Autistic people were not aware they were nonverbal so i thought everyone was hiding it from me, i know now thats not the case.) i thought i was schizophrenic because my grandmother was. My therapist was the only one to say "ive seen these traits in my aspergers patients". What did you think before Aspergers?

My mom thought I might be bipolar. I personally didn't think I had anything, least of all AS (I still doubt it now), but getting evaluated was kind of my last resort.

My mom thought I might have ADD because I rarely ever payed attention in class if it wasn't interesting. Then the grade school I was going to changed their teaching style and I had no problems after that.

Then fourth grade rolled around, I moved back to Portland, and my new fifth grade teacher suggested to my mom that I be tested for Asperger's.

ADHD, Social Anxiety Disorder, Severe Chronic Depression and bad childhood. The first three seem to be popular among the misdiagnoses.

^ Oh yeah, I was also diagnosed with MDD before that. It wasn't a misdiagnosis, however. :B

My parents always knew I had something. I was diagnosed with ADD, cluttering disorder, language processing disorder, dyspraxia, sensory integration dysfunction. I was suspected as having OCD, and they noticed I had poor social skills. I was also diagnosed as having autism in my early childhood but my parents didn't buy it. I was also speech delayed due to hearing loss I had so I had language problems later in life.

I never guessed I had anything. I just assumed I was normal and I was just different is all and I had to try harder.

I had no idea. I just thought I was scum. Still not entirely convinced that I'm not, but at least now I'm more sure of what my strengths and weaknesses are. Now I'm just trying to pull myself together and get my education back on track.

I thought I had social anxiety, possibly schizophrenia, a bit of ADD as I never pay attention to anything unless its interesting (which is nearly never)

Very Early Onset Schizophrenia.

ADHD+tourettes+light schizo+PDD-NOS+social anxiety disorder+a few minor others.
i was the one to puzzle them all together into most likely aspergers and brought it to my therapist

Before my diagnosis my mother thought I had schizophrenia. Also the shrink who diagnosed me when I was 6 thought at first that I could have it, but after some time the shrink realized that I showed more traits of AS and ADHD, so I got diagnosed with those instead of shizophrenia.

I never thought I had a condition at all. I just felt a life of frustration, because I seemed to be a mismatch with so many people, didn't know why people considered me "difficult" because I thought I was an OK person, couldn't understand why things were so stressful, couldn't understand why I seemed to think and approach everything so differently to everyone else.

When I finally read about AS (which was while I was researching possible causes for my eldest child's behaviour) it hit me like a Eureka moment. It was like a sudden dawning that this was me, there was a reason, I wasn't bad or difficult, I had a particular way of being for a clear reason. And it wasn't about blame any more, it wasn't my fault I was like this.

Anxiety, depression and social phobia

Social anxiety, ADHD, and before either of those, a complete lack of awareness that there was anything different about me.

most of the way through the assessment process and waiting lists I thought they were going to label me Avoidant PD - Schizoid style. AS was somewhat of a surprise.

I had a childhood diagnosis of Autism but was re-diagnosed with Asperger's about a year and a half ago. I lived in denial about it for quite a while.