Just to confuse me further...

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Ok. So I haven't got AS apparently... I have AS 'traits'... Strange that since 2 years ago I had AS... So as I am confused, I am temporarily changing my status to 'other ASD' because I am still on the spectrum apparently... just not AS... I am so confused...

On the other hand the shrinks and psychologists recently succeded in making me believe I was crazy. They tried to diagnosed me with Borderline personality disorder but I haven't got that. All the symptoms: Aggressive/impulsive behaviour, biting myself/hitting myself, lashing out randomly, depression, mood swings, saying and doing strange things against my will... It's just Tourette syndrome... I am so sick of 'professionals' telling me I am crazy when I am not. BPD is just the 'fashionable' lable at the moment and I am not falling for it.

Ok, rant over. Please give advice, ask more questions or write about your similar experiences. Thanks!

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

I'm wondering if you are developing some really good coping skills that are masking your AS and making it seem like you just have traits instead of actual AS.

That is what I am scared about when going for a diagnosis. What if I have just learnt to cope with this too well for anyone to see that I have problems.

I guess that is the real question, do you still have AS even if you have learnt to minimize the negative effects of it?

I guarantee you if I went to five different shrinks tomorrow I would get five different diagnoses.
I spent alot of time on a website for children of borderlines reading graphic descriptions of mostly borderline mothers. I really have a hard time understanding how people can confuse AS with borderline. Unless they are going for some kind of skeletal framework of hallmarks and not taking in how the individual presents. Because the borderlines I have known and the AS women that I have known seem to be really different from each other in appearance and behavior. I don't really know about males, I think males get slapped with anti-social PD for the same behavior, studies have proven that.

If you were dxd two years ago with AS unless people start growing out of it then how can you suddenly not have it?

I have the same issue, which combined with the fact that I don't really need to, is why I don't see a shrink.

For me I might have AS or HFA but when I was little, I was definitely diagnosed with autism but the only problem is that it doesn't seem to show it very much with me... The symptoms I have is:

- Stimming
- Hands flapping (when over excited)
- I talk too fast out of excitement
- Stuttering
- Sensitive and could take things quite literally

That's all I can think of...

I might have a feeling I could also have AS traits and I didn't speak till I was like 3 and a half.

Unless you need a diagnosis of AS for reasons such as needing help at work, school or government support you shouldn't really take too seriously what psychiatrists and psychologists say that you have. Whether it's AS traits, Borderline traits or Tourettes, you know what things you struggle with better than anyone else (unless you don't have insight because of lack of mental competency, which I doubt is the case).

I've had psychiatrists try to label me with various things including Borderline personality disorder (because of self harm, which is only ONE trait of BPD and that was due to depressed associated with AS) and psychotic disorders (because of my obsessions which they were convinced were delusions). I know they weren't correct but this was before I was diagnosed with AS so my situation was slightly different to yours.

You either developed coping skills or it could be PDD, NVLD?
If you are too mild for a diagnosis I'd take it as a compliment.