Borderline Aspergers diagnosis

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BAP does not only apply to family members of diagnosed autistics.
The term started that way, from studies of family members, but then it became broader and now includes people who have mild autistic traits with or without them having family members with autism.

Oh! That is good news. The research I read a couple years ago was all nuclear-family related.

In my case I think that the specialist stated the diagnosis this way because she didn't recognize enough impairments in the interviews. After all, the only symptoms she can actually prove are the ones in the communication/social criteria. Although i scored pretty high in all the screening tests, I didn't really show many difficulties while talking with her since those interviews are not even close to what a real life social situation looks like, and she stated that I had many "competences". I understand that it could be difficult to diagnose an adult with certenty if hes not showing obvious impairments while doing the interviews, but I expected that a specialist with a ton of expirience would be able to take a decission with confidence and take into account how the actual difficulties in the life of the individual look like, not only in an "artificial" social situation like the interviews...
I wish that the specialist could observe me in a day to day social situation

I wonder if ADHD traits have also something to do with the BAP, as one of my cousins has it, and some other family members have autistic traits as well.

Yeah, ADHD is one of the disorders that can come really close to the whole range of ASD symptoms. Around 50% from all people in the autistic spectrum show many symptoms similar to the ones of ADHD, mostly because of the executive function impairments. Before 2013 in the DSM-IV, it wasn't allowed to have both diagnosis simultniously, even when the individual would clearly score high in both condition's criteria. In the DSM-V it is possible to diagnose somebody with both conditions.

Weird enough, I had ADD and AS both diagnosed. Even my psychiatrist said I had ADD and also diagnosed me with AS.

Well, IMO it's comon sence that no disorder or illness can save you from any other...

It's that you can't diagnosis autism spectrum if all the behaviors are explained by ADHD, or visa versa. It's possible to have both as long as the same diagnosis doesn't explain the behaviors of both.