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25 Apr 2012, 10:01 pm

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"Oh, no, you don't seem like a person with Aspergers because people with Aspergers don't like to talk and you're talking just fine and you were willing to see me


A very stereotypical response. A counsellor once said she didn't think I had Asperger's because she'd seen men with the condition and I didn't come across like that. ASDs, however, were not her expertise - and to be fair, I wasn't seeing her for that - which is why I chased a diagnosis from a specialist.

People with Asperger's are all different, and there's good reason to believe that girls are underdiagnosed. You might have learned just enough coping skills to mask the condition, which is why you, too, need a specialist.

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My father doesn't suspect ASD, let alone know anything about it. He just didn't like the way the psychiatrist handled things and made sessions shorter than what we paid for. How do I go about finding a professional who knows about ASD then?


Have you got a local autism or Asperger's society, or a local support group? They might be able to point you in the right direction.


None that I've heard of from where I live. I've heard of some up in San Francisco, but that's an hour drive away.


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26 Apr 2012, 9:02 am

I was misdiagnosed with MDB (minimal brain dysfunction, a popular diagnosis in Scandinavia in the 80s, meaning almost anything) when I was 4-5. Now I'm diagnosed with asperger's and add. Btw, why are so many people here saying that they were misdiagnosed with add? Because asperger and add are comorbid, it's highly likely that a person with asperger at least has traits of add



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26 Apr 2012, 9:58 am

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I was misdiagnosed with MDB (minimal brain dysfunction, a popular diagnosis in Scandinavia in the 80s, meaning almost anything) when I was 4-5. Now I'm diagnosed with asperger's and add. Btw, why are so many people here saying that they were misdiagnosed with add? Because asperger and add are comorbid, it's highly likely that a person with asperger at least has traits of add


Minimal brain dysfunction was one of the older names for ADHD. You say in Scandinavia it could mean almost anything?

As far as people being misdiagnosed with ADHD, it may be they don't actually have it.



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26 Apr 2012, 7:32 pm

I was originally diagnosed with anxiety and OCD as a child. Though, I don't think it was a misdiagnosis. It was a incomplete diagnosis.



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26 Apr 2012, 7:32 pm

I was originally diagnosed with anxiety and OCD as a child. Though, I don't think it was a misdiagnosis. It was a incomplete diagnosis.



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27 Apr 2012, 8:18 am

Verdandi wrote:
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I was misdiagnosed with MDB (minimal brain dysfunction, a popular diagnosis in Scandinavia in the 80s, meaning almost anything) when I was 4-5. Now I'm diagnosed with asperger's and add. Btw, why are so many people here saying that they were misdiagnosed with add? Because asperger and add are comorbid, it's highly likely that a person with asperger at least has traits of add


Minimal brain dysfunction was one of the older names for ADHD. You say in Scandinavia it could mean almost anything?

As far as people being misdiagnosed with ADHD, it may be they don't actually have it.

Sorry, I was a bit vague. I meant that MBD was a popular diagnosis in Scandinavia in the 80s and that it could mean almost anything. My neurologist said that MBD was also an old name for Asperger's. I didn't realize that the diagnosis MBD existed outside of Scandinavia.



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27 Apr 2012, 2:57 pm

I got the label Hyperactive used for me in elementary school, because ADHD had not yet been fully invented. LOL
Also, OCD by a couple semi-proffesionals. And two or three things by conselors/therapists in college. I also self dxd myself as schizoid, or even Anti-social, but neither totally fit.
I believe my peiatrician probably told my mom I was autistic though. In my family, that would have been concealed, believe it! My friend/counselor at my first college (LSUS) who used to teach classes on relationships, etc. realized what I was, but never bloody told me!

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28 Apr 2012, 3:23 am

When I was using psychological services back in the mid 1990s when no one really knew about Asperger's. I was diagnosed with many different disorders that did not adequately describe my difficulties. The diagnoses that fit somewhat were depression, dysthymia, and generalized anxiety disorder. The others assigned were bipolar II, cyclothymia, hypomania, psychotic disorder NOS and the worst of them all borderline personality disorder (being a woman and not responding to treatment).

As a young child I was sent to speech therapy.

When I found out, no one was surprised. My mother suspected for sometime along with my counsellor but they never told me.



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28 Apr 2012, 4:02 am

No official AS diagnosis for me as yet (hope to be evaluated soon, though), but I was diagnosed with selective mutism as a child in the late 80s (i.e. before Aspergers was in the DSM).



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28 Apr 2012, 10:07 am

Underdiagnosed, but not misdiagnosed. They concluded my bipolar disorder is really there. But it made the psychiatrists blind, so they ascribed everything to it.



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28 Apr 2012, 10:59 am

I was misdiagnosed first with childpsychosis when I was 5-6 years old and then with borderline personality disorder at 19 years old.
Last year I finally got the right diagnosis, when I was 24 years old.