I Feel MisDiagnosed

Post Reply New Topic

If I were you I would go to Amazon and get a discounted psychology textbook. Like, one of those used ones that you can buy for one or two dollars, and then you just pay the shipping.

Most textbooks have the basic information you need to then look up the more interesting stuff on your own, either online or in another book. But then if something isn't so interesting all you're doing is reading a paragraph about it instead of a chapter.

You can come across all kinds of stuff in textbooks that you had no idea existed. I think they're a great jump off point for deeper reading.

It could have been provoked by a lot of stress (in particular if you had been at the higher end of the spectrum), an accident (that you might have forgotten and had an impact on your brain), a meningitis, an allergy against a substance that led to an alteration of your brain metabolism, some rare neurodegnerative disease, a stroke or seizures (Silently Seizing: Common, Unrecognized, and Frequently Missed Seizures and Their Potentially Damaging Impact on Individuals With Autism Spectrum).

Would you say that you were going through a quite tough period just before things changed?

ASD is mainly just a behavioral diagnoses that does not care about the different causes, and also not so much about the time the disorder started.

As for regression, research has found that there are regressive patterns also before the toddler age, they are just less perceptible than a loss of language. In my opinion stress plays a big role in regressive forms.

Well OP I think it's good you are being honest but I don't think it matters at the end what diagnoses you have, it's just a label. You are still welcome here because you have things in common with autism and that is all it matters.