Has anyone gotten multiple diagnoses? I'm very frustrated...

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I'm new here. As a child I was diagnosed with AS, my mother also has it. She grew up in an insular community that shunned mental health, and when I was diagnosed she passed it off, trying to raise me as normal as possible, denying it through and through. This was sort of good, I suppose, in that I learnt how to deal with situations, however hard it may have been. I'm 27 now and was recently diagnosed with Bipolar II, and brought this up to my psychiatrists and psychologists. None of them feel that I have AS, due to my begin able to socialize better than the "average" Aspie. I know myself though and I feel the same as always, and it's quite frustrating to not be able to get the support from the local Govt, family, etc. Has anyone else gone through this??

I have Aspergers, Autism, Tourettes.

Back then they didn really know much about these things here in Denmark atleast.

Ive been raised pretty much as a normal kid, i mean single mom working 2 jobs, there wasnt like much choice, and sure they knew something was wrong with me.

But when you loose a parent when you are a child you have to mature and grow up. It didn help me much.

Ive been around people all my life, having jobs and such. still cant socialize with other people. So this whole way, about just ignoring what is wrong with you and getting raised normally has nothing to do with anything. If anything it makes it worse.

Had they actually knew back then about this, they could have helped me, and i might actually have been better off today. Its pretty damn hard to socialize with other people, when you dont understand any queues other than words, and even then people say something and mean something else. Stuff like that, is something ive first discovered from this place, wonderful going 28 years oblvious to stuff like that.

But yeah when you get these kinda diagnoses, often times people tend to keep treating one like a child. have this problem with my mom still. Its much easier getting a label than getting rid of it. i think that is one reason many people are so scared of get diagnosed, i know i was. I would rather just be normal and have a job and try to get things to work.

So to sum up denying something is bad, its never good. People who think overwise has been lucky. Its like steve jobs, he died because he didn grasp reality and the seriously, he thought he could make things go away if he refused to believe in them.

If you are missing 1 leg, you cant walk normally, no matter how much refuse or deny you are missing a leg, Its no different with this, our brain is different and damaged in someway, at least mine are.