Does anyone here have Borderline Personality Disorder?

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I have that as well as aspergers.

i don't have BPD, but my sister does and her son is an aspie. it seems horribly difficult to live with BPD.

I have subclinical BPD tendencies. It's awful. I can only imagine it's a lot worse to have the full condition.

I was diagnosed with it but I didn't really have it. I just had the symptoms due to a psychotic depression. My anxiety & OCD caused me to act very controlling within my 1st relationship because I believed bad things were going on that weren't & I fell into a bad depression when things fell apart between us. I don't have the problems in my current relationship cuz my anxiety & OCD are well treated by meds.

I suspect I might. I even posted a list of my behaviors in the General Autism Discussion thread to see if they thought it was more Asperger's or BPD. I'm going to a Psychologist to get a diagnosis this year anyway, so I suppose it doesn't matter.

I have BPD and AS, yes. For me it presents with unstable moods, feelings of emptiness, extreme bouts of dsyphoria that may come out of nowhere and only last a few hours, feelings of abandonment, chronic suicidal ideation, intense anger, intense unstable relationships that split between black and white, as well as impulsive spending, sex, and driving. Most anti-depressants really don't touch the depression and most of it doesn't follow any normal pattern and is usually triggered by circumstances in my life. The chronic suicidal thoughts and the dsyphoria I find are the most difficult to struggle with, feeling like you wanna put a bullet in your head for years on end.

Even though I have BPD, I feel like my feelings I experience are the result of my life circumstances, and to me, I wonder how anyone else in my shoes would not feel the same.

I don't have it myself but my best friend believes that she has it and I trust her judgement.

I have BPD. I'm 99% sure I'm AS (no professional has confirmed it yet).
I also developed Avoidant PD to cope with these two conditions so that actually keeps me safe... As long as I isolate myself, avoid coming into contact with people, my symptoms don't show too much :0

I don't think I have BPD, but I do wonder about Avoidant PD. I have all the symptoms except that I don't desire closeness with others. So maybe isolating myself is not a 'disorder' in my case, but just how I prefer to live? I'm happy this way, and don't want to be 'cured' of it, so - I guess it's best to focus on issues that do trouble me.

There is so much overlap between the two, i've wondered how one would know thery had both.. Or what the distinct traits are that differentiate one from the other.

There are versions of aspie that are clearly just aspie. But some versions, particularly with the whole 'everyone is different and women present different' as well..has had me wondering.

I think Schizoid is for people who do not desire any social contact at all.

Yeah, the psych who diagnosed me with Asperger's said I met the qualifications for Schizoid PD too, but you can't have both, so in that case Asperger's is the correct diagnosis. There is a lot of overlap with all of these though!

Many people with AvPD tend to want to connect with people, but can't because of their fears. I'm pretty sure that the want to connect with others isn't actually in the diagnostic criteria though, it's just common (especially when it's often co-morbid with Dependent PD).

AvPD itself is more about how one suffers from a self-esteem so low that they avoid all sorts of things so they won't be ridiculed/criticised/rejected. Very similar to social anxiety. I don't generally want to make friends and be with people, but when I do, I avoid doing so because of those fears lol.

Those with Schizoid PD may not want to be with anyone because they don't feel much towards others due to flattened affect and apathy, but some can have co-morbid AvPD because they may fear ridicule/criticism/rejection so much that they avoid everything to an unhealthy level.

A lot of AS people like their solitude though, that's for sure

I have symptoms sometimes, but they come and go. I have depression most of the time.

My brother was diagnosed with BPD, although I am a completely different person than he is.

I was diagnosed with bpd at 15, told in August last year I had been misdiagnosed. I actually have high functioning autism,Tourettes with additional communication and sensory processing disorder and social anxiety. Took along time to work out the difference. The main ones being I don't have mood swings or impulsive behavior. The damage misdiagnosis does can be hard to deal with either way.