What other diagnosis did you get before Asperger's?

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Avoidant personality disorder, numerous major depressive episodes (never severe enough to warrant hospitalizaton though) and (probably) intermittent explosive disorder. But these are self-diagnoses as I am a health professional and qualified enough to deiagnose myself. Main reason I didn't get diagnosed with Asperger's is that when and where I was growing up nobody ever heard of Asperger's. In fact, when I was young, I was only labeled as 'very sensitive'and 'gifted'.
I admit I feel much better now I have the self-suspected diagnosis of Asperger's confirmed by a professional.

Anxiety / depression, complex PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, psychosis, Asperger's syndrome.

(When I got the AS diagnosis, and all the anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medication was removed, my state of mind returned to normal - or at least normal for me).

Nothing but my parents and RA in college suspected (incorrectly) depression

Atypical or treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD. Was tested for a variety of physical conditions as well.

at 15, i was dianosed with post traumatic stress disorder, depression, OCD, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and sleep paralysis by a doctor who wanted to put me on a cocktail of serious drugs. i declined. of those conditions, it turns out that i'm not depressed anymore and i never had OCD or generalized anxiety disorder. social anxiety, of course, is questionable since i have AS.

i do have some PTSD left over after a way traumatic childhood, and i have the freakiest sleep paralysis to go with my AS and dyscalculia.

Post Traumatic Stress disorder
Borderline Personality disorder
Narcissistic Personality disorder
Anti-social personality disorder
psychopathic, anti-social behavioural issues
Anger management issues
Alcohol and drug abuse issues
Major depressive disorder
Agoraphobia
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Three-legged badger disorder
Schizoaffective
Hospitalised for severe dissociative states/or psychotic states
Bipolar disorder (rapid cycling) type II

And when dx with AS, ADHD and Dyslexia in my 36th year, I actually realised that somebody finally saw me for the good person that I am despite the fact that I am a complete loon.

Mics

ADD, ADHD and OCD. I might actually have OCD, ADD and ADHD were just trendy.

I was first diagnosed with autistic disorder. Then when I was a little older, the therapists and my teachers (who worked quite closely together because of the nature of my education) must have observed that a diagnosis of aspergers would be more useful to me (and more appropriote because I was quite verbal and had no learning difficulties when I was in primary school). I'm not sure of the details because I was so young at the time. However, I was curious about autism when I was an older child (which is why mental health and mental disability became my secondary special interest).

Separation Anxiety Disorder, ADD, General Anxiety Disorder.


Cheers,

TH

OCD (Which I have, it is why I went to the doctors)
Borderline PD
Narcissistic PD
Schizoid PD
Paranoid PD
Suspicion of schizophrenia!
Suspicion of bipolar
Being an ass (Yea it was presented almost like a diagnosis)

Then (Current DX's)
Asperger's
OCD
Depression (Was FINALLY diagnosed after begging for years and years for that DX, but no I didn't have depression despite I was totally inactive, didn't care about eating and living, living through HELL emotionally, very suicidal for THREE FULL YEARS. I guess now that I wasn't PD I was no longer seen as FAKING DEPRESSION.) Still a maybe on bipolar.
Suspicion of ADD
DSPS might be diagnosed

ADD, ADHD,

My mother is Schizo and Bipolar, my father I'm not sure, he's been an alcoholic all my life.

ADHD. A few years later AS was added to the list.

ADHD
Antisocial PD
Depression
Narcissistic PD
OCD
Schizophrenia

Schizoid Personality Disorder

I was diagnosed with SPD at age 19 and was left to believe it for decades. About 5 years ago I began reading more and more about SPD and began to disagree with this diagnosis increasingly, primarily due to the fact that Schizoids want to be isolated socially, which is not at all the case with me. In my case, I long for one on one social interaction (I still hate groups and overbearing types), but have always made so many blunders that I simply can't get there from here. Then about a year ago I found out about Avoidant PD, which seemed to fit me better except for the self loathing trait, which I do not have. It was not until six months ago in the process of trying to better understand someone else whom I suspected of being autistic that I recognized this as the perfect description of myself. This has since been confirmed. It only took me 60 years and 41 years after that SPD diagnosis to find out. The interesting twist to the story is that the shrink who originally diagnosed me with SPD went on to specialize in schizophrenia and became the head of a clinic specializing in that condition in Hawaii prior to his retirement. As always, specialists of any kind see their speciality coming out of the woodwork.

ADHD, my psychologists now say I have no signs of a learning disabilities. I spent 1st grade to 10th grade getting spit on, beat up, tormented, and even set on fire once because people thought I was ret*d. f**k the seventies and eighties.

I was diagnosed with Schizo affective disorder by a few doctors or Schizophrenia by one doc. I've always had depression and social anxiety as well. I finally found a doctor that told me I had AS and that other doctors weren't giving me the time of day to make an accurate diagnosis. I did my own research only to find that she was right and I do not fit the schizo affective or schizophrenic diagnosis... and very much fit as an aspie.