A lot of comorbids

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Does anyone else have a lot of comobid disorders as a result of their ASD that are now disorders in their own right or disorders that aren't as a result of ASD?
Along side the ASD I've got a severe and enduring eating disorder, OCD, BPD traits and seperation anxiety...along with depression but that's as a result of all of that.
I feel like such a mess and it's all fueling each other and I'm not managing to break out of any of it.

I feel simmilar.
I could propably cope with just having ASD, but I also have gender dysphoria what makes me a lot of suffering and I went right through a PTSD the last two years and stayed in the environment that reminded me on the trauma for nearly two years until 3 1/2 weeks ago. This time was totally horrifying.
This PTSD was untreated the entire time, no it was more "pushed" in the wrong direction, because it was treated wrong the entire time, because they thought it was BPD and when I left it was clear that it was PTSD. So they interpreted my symptoms wrong the entire time.
Since this time I know how severe missdiagnoses can be.
It got a lot better since I'm not in the traumatic environment anymore, but I still have traumatic symptoms.

Then I also have gender dysphoria, meaning I don't feel conforable with myself and my gender role I was supposed to "fullfill".

I also have depressions, nearly all the time and have a bipolar suspicion since a view weeks.

I know this feeling exactly, I also have it very often, but I can just hope that it is going to be better.
The problem is that those disorder pushing each other sometimes.

I can identify a luggage of disorders but many times they are deceitful, that's why I put on my profile "Not sure".
Even if a doctor would give me a diagnosis, I can't trust it. The only disorders I'm sure that I have are Selective Eating, anxiety and PTSD.
The rest are too ambiguous for me. (many similarities between them) Even so I can identify myself a lot in these:
BPD, Aspergers, ADHD, OCD, NPD, Avoidant personality disorder, SPD, dyslexia, PPD, HSD (lots of them, huh? )

Ah, and I hate certain noises (Misophonia) and suffer of maladaptive daydreaming and ADD.

Ultimately any diagnosis is simply a set of symptoms and I guess everyone feels differently about it. I know that there are only certain diagnosis that fit...traits are slightly different but even then I'd only say that I have BPD traits...the rest is covered by the ASD. I just feel a bit of a mess, I think everything has got worse lately and that's why it's more of an issue. Most of the time I accept that I am what I am...it's just got harder recently again with my mood being rock bottom, my ED being so bad and my mum being away in India for 3 months which has made the seperation anxiety huge.

I could also identify for a while with a whole bunch of disorders, especially when my PTSD was extreme for like two years.
PTSD causes a lot of stress for the brain and can tore you nearly apart. I've gone through a lot, even slight psychotic symptoms and so on, but nothing was so extreme what I experiencened like strong PTSD symptoms.

So if you have also PTSD I would wait until it get's better. So long you have it, you can't really be sure about a lot of other diagnosis. Because it can mess you up a lot, even for a long time.

In the middle of my PTSD I fullfilled the diagnosic criterias for nearly every other psychiatric disorder out there, even slight psychotic symptoms. So I couldn't even be sure for a while if I maybe have schizoaffective, social phobia or what is going on.

But now I think, being in the middle of a PTSD this can be quite "normal" and in some periots of life it is impossible to tell for sure what disorder/syndrom a person has.

I'm also not sure if there isn't a bit of a spectrum between a lot of disorders and it isn't even possible a lot of time to differentiate, because more than one is/can be "correct".
I'm not sure about that one, but think that this is possible.

I was too classic autistic as a child to be not sure about it, but I still feel like in the middle of autism, bipolar, dyslexia, schizotypal PD and a bit of Tourette and I can't quite decide what fits best. I also don't really feel like having all of them, more that I'm on a spectrum between them.

I was normal as a child, don't remember if there was something different about me but my selective eating. And i was very enegetic (but i guess almost all the children are). My speech development was also normal. Even so, I was pretty gifted (i'm very creative and all the teachers recognized it) but not very different than the average kids. Many times I'm wondering why I was the target of bullying that caused me to suffer of PTSD, I think they felt I'm not like them, maybe (some said they were just envious but i doubt it)

So, yeah, i was thinking too it could be just my PTSD because i have had periods when i was well integrated and even popular among 'normal' people.

You could have complex PTSD, that could have a big impact.
A lot of times, when it looks like several different disorders, there is very often an underlying trauma that pushes them all.
Now I still have some traumasymptoms, even every day, but now I'm mostly my old self again.
But this also took me nearly two years.

When a PTSD lasts longer than 8 months, than there is a high change, that it's chronic and the person needs therapy.
Even after 3 months, there are high changes that it lasts for a year and another year and so on.
Traumasymptoms should get better after weeks and if they don't not than the person should go into therapy, best is to go to a traumaspecialist. Traumas that occoured in childhood or were longlasting, like bullying, can become part of the personality and then it is very very difficult to distiguish between the personality and the trauma, even in the middle of a "normal" PTSD it is the case.

If I were you, I would go to a traumaspecialist and so long you have PTSD it is nearly impossible to tell for sure if you really have a personality disorder or whatelse is going on, or if it just looks like this bacause of the trauma.

The only thing that has changed about me is that I avoid many social situations and I have high anxiety (before I was fearless) when having to deal with malicious people. The rest of them (ADD, not being able to understand some jokes, symptoms of OCD, NPD, maladaptive dreaming and misophonia) were present since the early years. I really don't know what happened, maybe because I moved from school to school and couldn't integrate because of it (and I had also a strange accent that made people to make fun of me) or because I always was a good person and they perceived this as a weakness. Anyway it's good to hear that you're ok again. My PTSD unfortunately is for a long time and I don't think will ever be cured.. but i'll seek for a terapist soon.

Ah, and i went to lots of psychologists and they said there is nothing wrong with me and that my reaction to stress is normal.

Along the years I've amassed the diagnoses of:

Aspergers
Bipolar I with psychotic features (was thought to be Schizoaffective at one point but the official dx is Bipolar)
Gender Identity Disorder (Transgender)
Complex PTSD
Social Phobia (no longer applies)
Anorexia (no longer applies)
Bulimia (no longer applies)
Eating Disorder-NOS (no longer applies)

Sometimes I feel like a walking DSM.

Comorbids? I have those. But probably not as many as people who have been at this longer.

I have:
ASD (official)
Major Depressive Disorder (official)
OCD (official)
Pure-O OCD (almost official - a psychologist I know believes I have it; haven't spoke to my therapist yet)
Synesthesia (official)
Lowered Latent Inhibition (obvious, but not official as it's not a technical diagnosis, but more of a symptom)
Sensory Processing Disorder (goes right along with the ASD)
"Catatonic tendencies/motor retardation" (associated either with Autism or Depression, and comes and goes. I'm not catatonic).

There might be a possibility of PTSD too.

Fun fun.

Bipolar disorder
Abandonment issues
Depression
Used to have anorexia

I had several depressions. When I was about 11, I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.
And when I was about 14 I was diagnosed with anorexia..I had anorexia for about 6 years and luckily I can deal with it right now.
I noticed quite many people with autism also suffered from an eating disorder.