What would aspie + borderline look like?

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Pretty curious since they seem, in fact, to be opposites. The one thing I'm missing is the reckless behavior, but it seems like almost everything else fits to a tee.

I took a BPD quiz and scored very, very high. Not only that, I noticed a lot of the questions overlapped with bipolar and avoidant personality disorder, which leads me to suspect that I should be looking at this one, not those, as I was previously. I'm dxed with Avoidant Personality Disorder, but some things don't quite fit, so I'm wondering why I was flagged for it.

BPD seems to tie together my anxiety, depression, avoidant personality, rapid mood swings, and problems developing friendships and relationships not explainable by lack of social skills alone.

The quotes are examples from the website, not my own experiences. http://www.bpdcentral.com/borderline-di ... ks-of-bpd/

Hi,

The questions overlap as the symptoms overlap - this is a controversial diagnosis and there is a lot of "mimicry." Health professionals are not too kind to that diagnosis, and while I am sure you are seeking "answers", I advise you proceed with caution. Please be careful of self-diagnosis - I appreciate your own insight is important, but be cautious.

Food for thought - bipolar can present with rapid, and even very rapid mood swings. There can be emotional problems with ASD. There is just so much to sort out, so much of "one thing" can look like "another - traits can overlap without constituting a diagnosis.

Best to you, LM

I show many signs of BPD, I often wonder if I have it. I think for me what may have caused would of been the fact that growing up showing emotion was forbidden in my house. I was expected to just hold everything in.

If I'm honest about my answers I score "high" on those tests as well. Internet quizzes are fairly meaningless but I've also scored above normal for he "borderline traits" on a real test administered by a counselor. I don't know if I could technically be anything near what I envision the stereotypical person with BPD. Yea, I have issues with depression, mood swings, and anger, but as an asexual introvert I don't feel like I have that much in common with those with true BPD other than having a few shared traits.

For such an impaired child, I've had a successful career in NT fields (so far) and a successful school life, all with plenty of human contact but never any real friends. Who could survive in a foreign country, survive the military (I worked so freakin' hard to fit in and do what I was supposed to do, then got promoted to the point where NVLD sank me and I got let go for unsatisfactory performance in spite of putting in 10X the effort of everyone else), and then go through law school (which is hell btw), all while dragging all the baggage along, without snapping even with perfect neurology? And that's just the last 3 years.

I wonder if acting NT and trying to fit in too hard could cause symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder even if it isn't the disorder itself. Certainly would match the "feeling unreal," the fear of rejection, and maybe even the switching my opinions about people at the drop of a hat. All these things have been reaching a crescendo since I got my diagnosis three months ago.

Psychiatric labels aren't Pokemons - you don't "gotta get 'em all".

Hello

Why do you think they seem to be opposites? I think ASD and BD are similar in some aspects.

I suppose that BD is a sort of "catch all" diagnosis, a "mix bag" for all disorders that not match entirely on the other categories.

How could one tell the difference between cyclothymia (mild bipolar) and Borderline?