Anyone ever been diagnosed with an adjustment disorder?

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I'm just wondering if anyone here has ever been diagnosed with an adjustment disorder or anxiety or depression when you would go through a burnout or go through hard times or lot of stress and your autism symptoms would really show and come out and you could no longer act normal?

I wonder if it's possible for someone on the spectrum to be diagnosed with either of these if the doctor doesn't know about autistic burnouts? The person was acting better and then they act worse so the only explanation the professional has it adjustment disorder or depression or anxiety. Especially if the child hit puberty and their hormones changed. I discovered it's quite common for ASD children to get worse when they hit puberty and my mom thought I was faking it and she also thought I got very depressed and I was diagnosed with an adjustment disorder. I told her I got so depressed because I got tired of being different and I wanted to be normal but I couldn't. I tried too hard to a point I couldn't do it anymore and I am never going there again. I don't think she still gets it and just thought it was just depression and just anxiety and I tried to be Asperger's so I told her that's not possible because how can I try to be something if I didn't know anything about the condition then.

To me anxiety, depression, and adjustment disorder are just other labels for me.

Also I don't think it was just me trying to be normal that lead me to a breakdown, it was a combination of other things like kids harassing me, my body changing and I was still a little girl on the inside so that was hard for me, I was on the wrong medicine so that was giving me seizures in school because of anxiety due to the teasing and rejections I was getting in school, just lots of things. Was I really depressed in 6th grade, I would say yes but only because of me not getting accepted in school. Like Tony Attwood says, aspies only have depression because of how they are treated in society and I would agree there because that explains my own depression as a child. Also I didn't suffer from me, I suffered from other people.

So I keep speculating I was only diagnosed with an adjustment disorder because my therapist didn't know anything about ASDs and burnouts but she knew enough to know what AS was but wasn't qualified in it. She still helped me though so she wasn't a bad therapist and she helped my parents out too with me and helped us with my school. My psychiatrist however also diagnosed me with anxiety so I think those two had their own opinion. I still believe my anxiety is because of how I process things and how my brain is wired. Put in mind I was never diagnosed with any specific anxiety, only "anxiety disorder." To me that is a NOS term and seems to be a way of saying "Well you have anxiety alright but you don't fit into any diagnoses for your kind so I will say you have anxiety disorder."

Did I go through a burnout in 6th grade, I am not sure but I sure wonder if it's possible for someone with an ASD to get diagnosed with an adjustment disorder or anxiety or depression if the doctor doesn't know about autistic burnouts? Has this happened to anyone here and how do you feel about that label on you? I just see them as labels.

A very interesting question and one I would love to know the answer too. I am still waiting for my assessment but have been Dx with depression & anxiety. I have had 4-5 nervous breakdowns and was told they were psychotic breaks but from reading here they sound very similar to autistic burnout.

Misdiagnosis is rampant from so called professionals looking to give you a bandaid solution and not a true diagnosis.

I am 48,and just recently realizing i have Aspergers/HSA,though undiagnosed.

I have lived the majority of my life,with a mask and trying to fit in.

Over 30yrs of substance abuse,self medicating,to try and fit in and be someone i wasn't.

Up until 2yrs ago,for 6yrs,i suffered from anxiety/hyperventilating daily,it came out of the blue.

In hindsight,that manifested,when one of my masks was taken off.

At that point,i had been trying to be someone i wasn't and putting up a false front(without drugs).

So,for 6yrs,doctors would try and prescribe me anti depressants for my anxiety.

I'd try the meds for one day,then throw them out.

I like the way i think,these meds distort mind,i know there's nothing wrong with me,just different and a different way of thinking.

Anyhow,at wits end,i self medicated on illegal drugs for 6yrs,a cycle of self medicating for a few months,staying clean for a few months,then back again,it was a resolving door.

Then 2yrs ago,i suffered burnout,which i thought was stress related,where i'd simply had enough.

Today,i've come across the term,autism burnout,in hindsight,that's what happened,a breakdown,where all my masks were taken off and i was presented with who i am and what i could and can't tolerate.

2yrs free from drugs and 2yrs of self discovery and now accepting who i am and why i felt different.

Largely a guinea pig of misdiagnosis,dealing with doctors with bandaid solutions.

So,in regards to your question,i've never been diagnosed with an adjustment disorder but have suffered from anxiety in the past.

And i believe imo,there's an underlying reason for either of those two and depression.

Personally and in my experience,i'd rather seek a diagnosis from myself and back myself,rather than seek a diagnosis from a text book quack and see if i tick some boxes.

Only you know,who you are and how you internally suffer,think and feel.