Aspergers-ADD-Autism-and other similar disorders from birth?

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What are some other "disorders" one can have since birth? Or other things that make others who they are?

I'm kind of having a bit of a rut trying to figure something out about myself. So I have Asperger's and ADHD as unofficially diagnosed by other "professionals", but while I found this to make sense for why "I'm so different" at first, the reasoning is starting to slightly wear off. I have always had problems with social cues, but facial cues I never really had much issue with.

And more recently some social anxiety disorder, which I'm convinced is "Social Anxiety" "Avoidant Personality Disorder" because as far as being anxious and awkward socially goes, I may have had impairment and clumsiness in social interactions, but I was never withdrawn like this, I would possibly have even been extroverted had I not had the bullying abuse and such. I was more social as a kid - to my experience, this is not sounding like Asperger's so much. Albeit I'm definitely introverted by, I think it's because of the social anxiety problems, which have been a constant for several years.

I think I might have too much empathy, another quality that doesn't match Asperger's apparently, and black-and-white thinking is, at least now, non-existent as my thinking's too gray. Another odd non-similarity. Also, I notice among Aspies there is more emphasis on the logical side of things, and while there still is natural human emotion, it's not quite connected as it would be for an NT. For me, the two are so connected that it might be painful. (Confusion and depression, respectively)

This is probably more of a non-issue, which is why I refrain from putting it in The Haven, and there's kind of an open-ended question that might fit most in this board (first thing mentioned in post and title; what are other similar "from birth" neurological (?) differences, as opposed to disorders like depression and anxiety?)

But it's just when I first came here I noticed some attributes I could definitely relate with - the mis-comprehension of social cues, intense special interests, (using this term loosely) more logical thinking (which is there but mixed with emotions). But over time, I've noticed some attributes that don't seem to place me with either Aspies, Auties, or NT's. Like the "F" descriptor in the Myers-Briggs tests, the gray-thinking, painful empathy, dependent relationship with logic and emotions (when one falls, the other one also does), etc...

"From birth" stuff... hmm.

Well, all the disorders that cause mental retardation, for one. Down syndrome and Fragile X are the most common. Williams syndrome is particularly interesting because it is often considered the "opposite" of autism.

Physical stuff: Cerebral palsy and dyspraxia; both of them affect movement, posture, balance, etc., and are neurological in nature.

Giftedness.

Learning disabilities--dyslexia, dyscalculia, "disorder of written expression" (think of it as dyspraxia specific to writing and some other stuff like maps and directions).

Left-handedness.

Synesthesia.

Savant syndrome.

An oddly developed brain--everything from relatively minor things like having different parts of the brain shaped differently or having different sizes than usual, to being born without some, or even most, of the brain.

Many congenital language disorders.

Cortical blindness and deafness; and, because they change how the brain develops by changing which information you can take in, blindness and deafness from other sources.

Many physical congenital conditions have aspects which affect the brain.

That lack of empathy thing is one of the biggest myths in autism.
You can have too much, feeling literally paralyzed by it but not show empathy to others because of the intensity of it.

I was born human. Seems disorderly to me.

I've read a bit about empathy on this site but I'm still confused. I also really don't think people are putting themselves in my shoes looking from my perspective.
ToM is confusing too.

I agree with you.

And it depends on the situation too, and everyone is different, some feel too much, and other times you don't feel something because it is too intense, and sometimes months or years later, something triggers a reaction and you suddenly can feel something you thought you didn't.