Have people ever thought you'd had a different diagnosis?

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That's rude of people to come out and ask or say if you have a mental illness. I personally never had anyone assume I had anything wrong with me except for being a well known germaphobe. Qualified professionals have said I have social anxiety, depression, OCD, and Asperger's though.

I was diagnosed with OCD and depression. Antidepressants (Zoloft and Lexapro) did not help me and just made me drowsy and more depressed.

Still unsure if I have Autism or Bipolar. I have family history of both.

My mom used to think I was autistic, but a few people disagreed with her. I did end up with a diagnosis. I am now questioning that diagnosis. People have also suspected that I have bipolar disorder because of my mood swings. I think my classmates suspect I have ADHD.

There have been two people who have sincerely thought that I was mentally ret*d that I know of, and my counselor thought that I was schizophrenic at first, because I have a big imagination.

Before my teachers found out that I was an aspie, a lot of them were convinced that I had ADD for some reason. I've also met a few people before who suspected that I might be bipolar--because of my mood swings-- but clearly they do not know my mom well . The thing I get most of the time is being mistaken for deaf, though that ain't too far off the mark there.

Bipolar came up,
Nonverbal Learning disability,
ADHD,
OCD/OCPD
Social Communication Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder Traits
Dyslexia
Downs Syndrome (when i was a toddler, my facial (barely there) Features disappeared though)
Dyscaliculia
Dyspraxia

Bipolar came up,
Nonverbal Learning disability,
ADHD,
OCD/OCPD
Social Communication Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder Traits
Dyslexia
Downs Syndrome (when i was a toddler, my facial (barely there) Features disappeared though)
Dyscaliculia
Dyspraxia

oh, kids at school thought i was ret*d too

I'll just lump professional and non-professional together.

Hypersensitivity/Oversensitivity
Depression
Social Anxiety
ADD
Anxiety
"Some type of mental illness"
Borderline personality disorder

One person I know online used to think I was borderline. I don't know if he still believes that. I don't even want to ask because he would just go on and on about it. He has never met me, and he doesn't know what I am really like in person. He is just kind of obsessed with borderlines so he sees it everywhere. He is a diagnosed schizophrenic, but I think he more likely has Asperger's, because it runs in his family. He went so far as to call a specialist in my area who treats borderlines to tell them about me and tried to convince me to go for treatment. Maybe I should return the favor, and find an autism specialist in his area he could visit. LOL

I looked up some things about BPD and watched a video about it to see what he was going on about. I didn't find anything I could relate to in it. The borderlines I saw in the video scared me. They seemed like the kind of people who bite your head off and get angry over nothing at all.

When I was a teenager people used to think I had some kind of eating disorder, because I was so thin and they didn't see me eat much. My weight was healthy, and my doctor said my eating habits were normal, just picky.

Other than that some people have generically called me "crazy" or some variation of it but not with any specific diagnostic label.

Usually I have the opposite problem, my difficulties are mostly invisible to other people so they don't believe there could be anything wrong with me. It has been that way since I was 7 seven years old and crying at school every day because I was convinced I had a brain tumor, or was having mild strokes or some type of palsy because I noticed my face drooping a little on one side. But anytime I asked for help in school the teachers would just say things like "you're so smart, you don't need any help" and that went on all the way up through college. People have said things like you are just being lazy/difficult/oversensitive/too picky/trying to make excuses/etc. If I tell people I have ADHD they act like they don't really believe it or take it seriously or they just don't believe ADHD is real anyway.

I was thought to have ADHD by some people and others thought I was a ret*d.

oh, and bad hearing

My diagnosis is nonverbal learning disability, but other people (like therapists or supervisors at work) have guessed:

Asperger's syndrome
ADHD
Brain damage
Some kind of learning disability

Honesty, none of those are bad guesses. Even the brain damage- early childhood right hemisphere brain damage can cause symptoms similar to NLD, and NLD can be associated with neurological disorders that cause white matter damage, like leukomalacia. In my case it's clearly genetic though, as the symptoms can be seen in other family members on my dad's side of the family.

17 years ago, I diagnosed myself with 'bad breath' and haven't looked forward since.