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Although I've been diagnosed with mild autism I think this doesn't explain how I am entirely. I am not sure what my diagnosis is. I am unsure if my mild autism hides the other problem to a certain extent. I have a feel this is the case and that it has made will make diagnosis difficult. How have people gone about getting additional diagnosis? How common do you think co-morbidity in autism/aspergers is?

I also have that question. I think I may qualify as Aspergers + Bipolar

Without details I wouldn't be able to hazard a guess on what you are dealing with, but the wiring problems with ASD often go hand in hand with other neurological or learning disorders such as ADHD. ASD is often linked to other congenital conditions especially cranifacial ones, because face and brain develop in tandem embryologically. Then their are a host of other mental illnesses or personality disorders that seem to have mixed genesis from environmental, neural, and genetic causes that manifest as life goes on, such as clinical depression and social anxiety disorders. Then, of course, the symptoms of many personality disorders overlap with ASD and people usually pick up a few misdiagnoses along the way. For instance, my diagnosis in medical terms would be autism spectrum disorder secondary to Goldenhar syndrome or hemifacial microsomia plus clinical depression. Recent tests by another psychologist indicated AvPD (Avoidant Personality Disorder), which does seem on target. I once picked up a misdiagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder, which has since been shot down. Most people on here seem to have similarly convoluted diagnostic histories.

I forgot to mention OCD. OCD tendencies actually factor into the ASD diagnosis.

My face is a bit different, in that its not very well defined e.g. not much in way of cheekbones/jaw line. When I was growing up I had a markedly asymmetric face however thankful as I have grown older its become much less noticeable. Have had psych symptoms but not sure how much that is problems dealing with things like ostrism as a result of being on the spectrum or if it is comorbidity. Has anyone asked to be assessed for addition diagnoses? How did you go about it? Not sure about how comorbidity would affect presentation. Or indeed if its not autism and I in fact have a few coexisting disorders that look like autism.