ASD co-morbid disorders, associated conditions & YOURS!!

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Mine are social anxiety and depression.

I know what you mean. My chest is all scared up from this. I fight to keep my hands away from my face, until I check them in the mirror to see them first. I always fight to stop myself from picking when I'm around others, so they don't know how bad my chest actually is.

Love your quote, "undergoing personality reboot" should be on the list, as with discovery comes change!

I tend to do the same, but maybe this is just our subconscious protecting us and our aspie differences, how else would we survive in a many NT world.




Totally agree, and sadly the core of who we are is often the part others do not seem to get or understand!

Sorry you having such a hard time of things, I have found as get older can control more or maybe its just since being diagnosed myself last year, as I begin to understand and accept myself, I find there is less of a need to as I see my uncontrollable picking as "stimming" which is my auto stress release..

Think you got most of it!

Perhaps Graphomania (from Greek γραφε — writing, [1] and μανία — insanity), also known as scribomania, refers to an obsessive impulse to write[2]. When used in a specifically psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition characterized by the writing of long successions of unconnected meaningless words.

Can't say I'd label myself in the latter context, though I do write excessively to quell anxiety and occupy insomnia. I am an incessant list maker, due to lax organisation or executive function.

Could add celiac though the susceptability isn't proven, I haven't spoken to another celiac autistic on here and I suppose it just comes under gastro-intestinal discrepancies.

Garphomanis interesting one, one of the better obsessive tendencies writing I feel, I'm like you on this one in the fact I do write excessively, well in my case type... being dyslexic my writing to others tends to be or seem like unconnected meaningless words!

Celiac I know very few people diagnosed with this, but the ones that are I can recognize autistic symptoms in them, who knows a little like Autism many still not diagnosed, as without real statistical information no one can tell!

Really? If there are many articles about it then it's probably correct. I'd just never heard that one before.



I know people have been and still are misdiagnosed as schizophrenic but that's a misdiagnosis not a comorbid condition.

I suppose I don't understand bipolar so maybe I'll stop commenting on that!


I suppose what I'm wondering is where something stops being part of Asperger's and starts being a different disorder in it's own right. People with AS often get very angry and frightened, but when does this become a mood disorder and not part of the AS?

Thank you for replying with information, particularly as I didn't really write what I was trying to say the first time round.

Where you're written 'verbal tics such as echolalia and palilalia' - are echolalia and palilalia (another fun word!) always tics? I know they can be, but when I was little I used to repeat things I'd heard, and I don't think this was a tic - I think I just did it because I felt like it.

Also, I thought 'cognitive disability' was any mental disability - including autism itself.

Thank you for explaining what 'executive disfunction' is also, as I've never managed to understand that.

It 'starts being a mood disorder' following a shift in the individuals behaviour, from somewhat controlled bursts of anger or frustration, to manic shopping or food binges, substance abuse, stints in bed so miserable they can't seem to overcome it i'd say, roughly speaking. Though a mood disorder is recently linked to oxidation damage of the michtochondria cells, and I suppose AS related depression and anxiety could cause sed damage over a period of time, diet isessential to remediation, you can get mood consistency from fresh fish, decent dietary choices, supplements ec.
I'd say that when my ADD brother started throwing chairs, believing he's in the truman show, drawing aliens on the bathroom mirror and being cruel to my beautiful lab Clio, this was a shift to mood disorder, as he was hitherto sweet natured and almost feminine in his manner. Antagonistic rage bursts are a characteristic of mood disorder, which i do not share. I stay calm and logical and frightened during confrontation, or if really trying to stand up to the other person, mimic their behaviour right back. There is no burning desire or 'mission' to take out a feeling of disphoria, with malicious intent toward the other person, and when its affecting another individual this is usually when a diagnosis occurs.
After all, when I was smiling and pretending everything was totally fine, I am fine, my tics and habits, pedantry ec, well that was just Jenk, her little quirks. Its only when I shut down, came home and stayed there that my parents truly acknowledged something was up and must have a label in order to chastise. Sadly the reality is many people with mood disorders are in control of themselves, though as soon as they admit to a private cycle, bouts of mania or depression, phychlogists , family and other aquaintances can brand them dangerous, or try to attribute any joy, misery or indeed minor slights of character to "their bi polar, must be the bi polar." This must be very frustrating when coupled with AS, when you need to buy provisions to fuel an obsession that you would quite happily work on for lengths of time, if others weren't attributing it to a manic period to be quelled or being bullied and provoked at school/home, meltdown, and experience a depressive stint that's tagged as a rage attack or 'stropping.' You just have to hope those close to you "get it," I suppose.

"Words are the problem" ... "The trouble some people have been German, I have being human." Margaret Atwood.

I've been diagnosed with depression and OCD.

Depression, ADD, & OCD for me. The depression and OCD parts have mainly gone away and the ADD is manageable mostly now.

OCD is the bain of my existence, so exhausting at times, bar trusting people, that doesn't tend to work out, but hay, you only get one shot, paddling is key

Pica and selective eating disorder as specific possibilities of eating disorders?

aspergers, schizoaffective disorder-bipoler type, adhd, learning disorder nos.