What's your specific diagnosis?

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Just because I'm curious...

To clarify: The names in each option are names for roughly the same thing.

No separate categories for "high-functioning autism". If you got that as a diagnosis, just use the "autism" option.

The "more than one ASD diagnosis" option is for people who have had different doctors label them with different things.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's.

AS, been diagnosed since I was 5yo..

Asperger'sDisorder; Gillberg's Criteria

Autistic Disorder; DSM-IV-TR (had to have this due to the early years)

Asperger's Syndrome.

First diagnosis - BPD and Schizophrenia (Residual type) at age 18. First hospitalisation, at age 23 - SchizoAffective Disorder.

Wow, that's a big ol' basket of diagnoses right there. You're not the only one, though. There are others around WP who are on the schizoprenia spectrum as well as the autism spectrum.

Shouldn't surprise me, anyway. Both are pretty common--1% of the population as far as I can tell, for both. So one in a hundred autistics has schizophrenia too, just by chance; and I've seen some evidence that they're more common together than apart.

What I don't know is how do BPD and Schizophrenia reconcile. BPD seems to say I depend on people, and have a temperamental relationship with them, and Schizophrenia says I'm too bizarre to enjoy the company of people. That's my understanding anyway, since I've read about both on WikiPedia. I was never talked to by a professional about how my condition manifests itself.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at the age of 15.

I was diagnosed with fragile x, which is another disability which causes autism. 90% of people with fragile x are also autistic.

I put "other". I am still waiting on a diagnosis but I'm not self-diagnosed. Self-diagnosis and pre-diagnosis should be two different categories IMO.

I was diagnosed with AS and Dyspraxia, both at age 8. Now I have self-diagnosed myself with an anxiety disorder.

Was diagnosed with OCD in my early 20s. While going through therapy at the maudsely in south london the psychologist said I fitted 90% of the criteria for an ASD diagnosis. I havent really felt the need to get a formal diagnosis though.

Got over the OCD through a combination of CBT and willpower. Now my main difficulty is social phobia and avoidant personality traits. I could probably be diagnosed with agoraphobia, though I do leave the house, though hardly ever on my own. Im pretty dispraxic too, especially with things like handwriting though I have no formal diagnosis.

My husband, Jay, was just diagnosed as an Aspie at age 55. I have Bipolar I, with a tendency more towards manias.

One diagnosis says: autism spectrum disorder, they told me verbally HFA/AS.
One diagnosis says: autism, but I doubt it, as I had no speech delay. Then I guess, that lack of speech-delay rules also HFA out and it should be Aspergers.
It is a bit confusing for me.

I am waiting for the phone call to tell me when my testing will happen. At this point I am self diagnosed but have the unsolicited opinion of a few professionals that I have AS.