Asperger's being diagnosed as Personality disorders.

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I am soooo confused.
First off I have an Aspie 7 year old.
I was diagnosed with Borderline personality disorder a few months but don't feel like it fits me.
I started looking closer into my behavior and believe I may be a misdiagnosed Aspie.
Anyone had this experience?
Or info about this happening?

I believe that has happened with some people here. Look back a few pages in the forum- I think there was a topic on it in the last week or two.

borderline personality disorder and asperger disorder have nothing in common

Nevertheless, there are Aspies who have been initially diagnosed with it, just as some have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Psychologists aren't always right.

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I was (mis)diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Growing up people have given me many diagnoses. The psychiritrist dianosed me as having a personality disorder myself as well as a mixed receptive and exspresive language disorder. It was the psychristist at my conceling center that diagnosed me as having a autistic spectrum disorder.

I think my mother has both BPD and AS. I have a feeling that a lot of BPD's may also be Aspies. Perhaps having a poor TOM and feeling desperate all the time due to not "coping" and being abused as a child, just "warps" or "twists" your personality.

I don't think most aspies are BPD though, and I would not be surprised if a lot of people with AS are miss Dx'ed with BPD, as a lot of doctors are ignorant to AS particularly in adults.

When I was discharged from the Air Force, five years before AS made it into the DSM-IV-TR, the psych there diagnosed me with BPD, due in large part to my "flatness of affect". He also thought I was trying to hide something with my "overly-precise vocabulary".

Guess what two of the symptoms of AS are?

I think that is just it. A lot of adults may get labeled with BPD because the psych does not KNOW of AS, and some of the symptoms are similar. If you have "some of the symptoms for BPD," and that is what the DX is based off of, but those symptoms are the same one someone with AS have, then it may not be accurate. You need to look at the other symptoms for BPD, and the other symptoms for AS. Do you match the total profile of BPD or AS?

My mother on the other hand, god love her, fits both AS and BPD like a glove!

I´ve been diagnosed with Panic disorder and Schizoid. But when i got tested again the schizoid wasnt there anymore. Funny eh? Well my father had seroius BPD dont know if he was an Aspie as well, he died so young.

I believe AS and Bpd can co-exist. AS is neurological. As far as we know, Bpd and other personality disorders are not. I do not see having one, precluding having the other, especially given bpd can come about as a result of major issues in childhood such as abuse and abandonment.

That's funny because flat affect is a criterion for schizoid personality disorder but definitely not for borderline personality disorder (intense moods and mood swings are a symptom of borderline personality disorder, however).

I am absolutely sure I am aspie, no matter what a diagnosis would say. I think your believe will be, very probably, much more exact than any diagnosis you get, so, stay here among aspie people and you will soon be very sure about the aspieness or not of your feelings.
Welcome!

Well, I can say with some certainty that after my (second/current) wife read the entry in the DSM on AS, she said they should have my picture next to it...

Sure, I was diagnosed with a few things that never fit (clinical depression, twice suggested schiophrenia). AS is the only "disorder" that encompasses everything, including stuff from my childhood that I was never able to understand. It all makes perfect sense to me now. I do also fit the criteria for schizotypal personality disorder, but that doesn't account for my obsessive interests, stimming (which I did in classic autistic ways as a kid) and constant social ostracization.