Does anyone have anything besides AS? Share your story

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Aspergers and everything that goes with it:

Social awkwardness
Sensory overload: Hearing, Sight, Smell, touch
Meltdowns
Anger and intolerance in a routine break
Can't handle crap that doesn't go like it's supposed to
glassy glossed over eyes
a "worried" look
Terrible digestion to do with the high dose of meds I take for the above ^

Um

ADD
Anxiety
Paranoia
Possibly Bipolar disorder
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Low thyroid function
Low mineral absorbtion - all of them
bung knee
tics - some form of mild tourettes
Extreme stress
Depression
OCD - moderate to extreme
Geographic tongue
Mild gluten and lactose intolerance
Migraines
Night terrors - blood curdling screams during dreaming

Other more embarassing stuff.

I laugh at people who tell me I have an easy life. And it happens quite often from internet people. But I am grateful for what I don't have. I could be a lot worse.

I'm pretty sure I don't have AS. My psychiatrist doesn't think so either. I'm just an NT with bipolar disorder and social anxiety disorder, that happens to have intense interests and a lack of social skills. And maybe some other things like paranoid personality disorder, dyscalculia, and dyslexia, although I can't be sure.

I have terrible social anxiety, I stutter and stammer my words, and sound like an idiot when I do. My speech is as much a problem as my social anxiety.

My main thing is HFA. Everything else seems to stem from that. I am severe HFA---I also have some anxiety (which came from living life with undiagnosed autism and the social torture I went through my whole life), I had signs of clinical depression, but I don't see myself as depressed (it also stems from the HFA because I am aware that I am not as functioning as other people my age, and it is very difficult for me to accept sometimes). I also have some signs of OCD, but I don't know if it counts as a separate diagnosis--it is more to do with the HFA autism, probably. I am hyperlexic as well (something that fits very well with my HFA). I have lots of sensory issues, but I see that as hand in hand with my HFA. One thing I was diagnosed with as well is bulimia. I also officially qualified for binge-eating (once I was "cured" from the purging....), and I had anorexic tendancies (but that, at the time, would have made me EDDNOS). I have suffered from a vicious cycle of eating disorders ever since I was about 8 years old--that is when the social torture began. Before then I didn't know I was different. After then, I still didn't understand that I was different. All I knew was that everyone thought I was. Because I didn't know I had autism, (and therefore, neither did anyone else), I was tortured relentlessly through school. I went through periods of self-hatred, hibernating from society, and my unending eating disorders (with which I still struggle).

AS and everything that goes with it and dyspraxia - bit hard to tell which is which sometimes, though I think for me dyspraxia is more of a problem than AS.

Learning difficulties, anxiety disorder triggered by any mention, notice or thing that reminds
me of any of the factors that previously resulted in what happened to me from age 13 to slightly before age 15, a traumatic experience. Oh, and I fit the definition of dependent personality disorder, but the definition doesn't really allow for my wants and circumstances, so I discount it.

I have AS ADD, Nistigmus, night blindness and i'm visually impaired(read: legally blind)

CFS, severe depression, hand tremors, possible tourette's, minor myotonia congenita, dyslexia,dyspraxia, OCD, plus a few others


on the plus side i am one of the few people i know who can read backwards and upside down, i can work out huge sums in my head (useful for my job as i'm a bookie) and despite all my problems i have won about 30 awards for customer service as my job includes talking to people. that's why my doctor is reluctant to diagnose me with Asperger's (everyone i know says i have it including an ex who is a child psychologist now, and a few mums i know with kids who have it)

my problems DO NOT HOLD ME BACK even though sometimes i can't get out of bed!

Is anyone else here on mood stabilizers for bipolar (in my case, I have begun taking lithium).

Been diagnosed with major depression, but as it seems now it was related to the bipolar it doesn't really count. I have ADHD - I probably only passed high school because of taking ritalin my attention problems were so bad.

I'm trying to deal with the bipolar diagnosis and medication. The episode I have just had (extremely rapid cycling I believe, experiencing massive highs and lows every day) crippled me - causing me to become an invalid for 3 months (a massive fall in functioning level, when before it I was independent, performing, and studying full time).

s**t where to begin

I have Insomnia, Hypersomnia (alternating), Circadian Rythem Sleep disorder- Free running type, Eczema, asthma, severe anxiety, climical depression, OCD, Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a touch of bullimia, sensory dysfunction disorder, non verbal learning disorder, dyspraxia, possible hyperlexia.

BDD is easilly the worst.

Haha, things like this make me feel very odd, but:

Eating disorder NOS (which, of course, means BDD as well), anxiety & depression, insomnia.

Aspergers, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, a bit OCD, GERD, IBS, raynauds disease, irlen syndrome, dyspraxia

Life started sucky for me. Born with strep in my lungs, almost died a bunch, was in an incubator for 6 months, oxygen for 3 years after that, just got diagnosed with severe asthma and COPD. Pneumonia every year, also the doctor hinted at my lungs will degrade even more with time. Thanks to my health issues and environment while growing up I developed PTSD along with being born autistic, horrible combination for trying to deal with people.