What are you also diagnosed with besides ASD?

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As someone with a history of depression and anxiety (and potentially ADHD) and highly suspected ASD (seeking diagnosis), I've done a bit of searching to try and find out the answer to old chicken/egg question here - are my symptoms primarily related/attributable to ASD, or these other psychiatric diagnoses? And moreover how many people with ASD have a diagnosis of other psychiatric disorders, and which ones?

I've chosen to focus on the more common ones initially, but please add additional diagnoses in your reply which will help better capture all responses. Also please add any additional information about your autism spectrum diagnosis if you can.

Thanks!

Generalized Anxiety, Depression, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, as well as several medical conditions.

Just anxiety disorder, OCD, ADD, and I have been diagnosed in the past with Language Processing Disorder, dyspraxia, sensory processing disorder, have had a history of depression an had a history of auditory processing disorder and also been diagnosed with having an adjustment disorder. My last diagnoses I have gotten was anorexia nervosa.

Chronic circadian sleep disorder (I have forgotten the specific name of, since it doesn't matter anyway as it's mostly untreatable) which sometimes crosses over into acute insomnia.
Also "Gender Identity Disorder" which I rigidly do NOT consider a "disorder," and certainly not a psychiatric one, as the treatment is physical. Being trans, like being gay, is not a sickness. They just force you to conform to a "disease" model in order to access transition. Which I think is sick, but had to do nonetheless so I technically have this "diagnosis."

Nothing official but a lot of unofficial lables, different, Space cadet, wierd, "queer, homo, fag", spaz(spastic), painfully shy, lazy, does not live up to his potential, drug addict, narc etc.

thanks, all, for the replies so far. Key point about the "disorder" label - absolutely, I leave it up to you to decide if it is or not. They had homosexuality as a "disorder" in the DSM-III if I recall correctly (maybe it was earlier, but I think it was only pulled in the mid 80s). I guess for me something qualifies as a disorder if it impacts my quality of life, ability to function, and if it is shared across enough people to qualify as some sort of group experience. But I leave it up to you, and I think most would agree about the Gender Identity disorder qualification - it seems nonsensical and "sick" as you describe. I'm DEFINITELY not intending to apply any labels here, on anyone. Again, thanks!

Oh, and good point about those unofficial labels, or slurs, too. I guess they could all be bundled in some new bucket - like "person labeled as outcast by peers", or PLOP

IMO they have GID listed as a disorder because it allows people with it to get treatment so they can transition to their brain gender from the outside. Homosexuals don't need any treatment for their homosexuality like GID people do.

LI
language impairment

Hi,
I am also diagnosed with depression. When I come to think about it, I believe it has been there all my life. That's a sad thing, but I can not help it. My psychiatrist and I tried a lot of different medications, nothing really helped over a long time. Now I have a new medication since June, hoping to have the right one now.
It's really frustrating to try all those antidepressants.
Before I got my AS diagnosis, doctors were not sure what was wrong, so I got a lot of mixed up diagnoses. Like: general anxiety disorder, major depression,sleep disorder, dissociative disorder and so on…
When I look back this makes me very sad… I could have had a much better outcome with the right diagnosis years ago!
Hoping for a better life now,
regards, Sophia.

I am officially diagnosed with mild AS, but I have doubts about it.

I have self-diagnosed with ADHD, social/general anxiety disorder, learning difficulties and sleep disorder.

But the sleep disorder might be because I'm anemic (I sleep a lot). And the learning difficulties might be due to poor attention, but I am waiting to be assessed for ADHD. I have more symptoms of ADHD than I do of AS, and I have all symptoms of both social and general anxiety disorder.

I also have a specific learning disability in the area of visual processing. I don't have any mental health diagnoses, though, and don't think I qualify for an official diagnosis of one, either.

Schizoid Personality Disorder.

Besides having High-Functioning Autism, I was diagnosed with a Specific Learning Disability (Organizational Dyspraxia).

Very true - however they could still have you sign a medical liability release and then allow you to do what you need to do to your own body without telling you you're mentally ill. Unless you're very lucky, none of SRS is covered under insurances anyway so it's not as if this is an excuse for needing this "diagnosis" either.
Plus, until recently, gay people were often forced into conversion / aversion therapies, and in some places and circumstances, still are. This was considered the appropriate psychological treatment for homosexuality, and it was very much considered a mental illness that required treatment.

In addition to my Pervasive Developmental Disorder , i.e. Asperger syndrome , I have been diagnosed by one psychologist as having dyscalculia , and by another with having A.D.H.D. I also have a relatively mild form of Tourette syndrome , hence my user name .

adhd ("combined type"), schizoid and/or schizotypal personality disorder, esotropia when i was little (treated and essentially cured), unspecified bipolar-like mood disorder (maybe part of adhd? dunno), unspecified migraine-like disorder (usually without severe headaches. it was an "actual diagnosis" given to me by a neurologist, believe it or not), autoimmune thyroid disease (under permanent treatment and stable for several years now), chronically chaotic sleep patterns since i was born, recurring sleep apnea for no apparent reason, recurring digestive issues for no apparent reason, lactose intolerance since i was born, a few allergies (though no food allergy that i'm aware of), bruxism (got a broken molar because of it), and probably depersonalization disorder

my psychiatrist thought at first that i was joking or maybe being a hypochondriac when i said i thought i had some kind of autistic disorder, but came to agree with me after looking further into it and interviewing my parents (that was a few years ago). my therapist said once that "he was surprised i don't have panic disorder". i'm not sure what he meant by that, but that's actually something i never had. they did several types of brain scans on me once, didn't find anything. also three sleep studies over the years, all they found out was that "yep, i do have sleep apnea", no rhyme or reason. well gee, thanks for letting me know

in terms of general physical health it looks like i'm doing great though, surprisingly. my blood pressure is always close to ideal, my weight is also close to ideal, and according to all my routine exams everything else seems to be fine, even better than average for my age. it's weird, but hey... i'm not complaining