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I am having a 6 hour psychological analysis in June. I was diagnosed with AS a couple months ago by a AS specializing psychotherapist but because my difficulties are quite invisible with the way I present myself, my regular therapist wants her own diagnosis clarification and honestly I do too. I have so many different types of things that I think must be abnormal. It is messing with my head a bit being stuck in diagnosis limbo. I am hoping for some insight if anyone has anything similar diagnosed and if so if they have successfully controlled with medication. Thanks!

My grandfather was a "manic depressive," and my father is quite obviously undiagnosed AS and depressive. My mother came from an alcoholic rage filled home. She is bipolar and has experienced primary ovarian failure and since her moods have been more and more negative. She represses the fact that she has another son who she does not know. I grew up in an emotionally unstable and sometimes physically abusive (during her tantrums) home. I grew up with my mother always with me and my father working all the time. I would guess my father has a very high IQ but is pretty much emotionally disabled as he has fits when questioned about just about anything. My father had fits when he was in his 20s 30s where he would break stuff all over our house. I have a temper just like him, I want to hit when I am mad.. not yell.

Because I grew up in a home like this the therapist I am working with is having a hard time accepting the idea that I am not NT other than an anxiety disorder and possibly ADHD. I am working with a psychiatrist for the first time and I was placed on Remeron. So far it has made me much more able to communicate. I feel much less anxiety. My problems and issues are so much easier to understand and work around now that I do not start crying the instant one of my parents or husband raises their voice at me. I feel like I can explain my point. I can feel my body better. I am not left with my mind still racing pretty much constantly. I still think constantly about how crazy I sound or how weirdly people must look at me. I have intrusive thoughts very very often. My moods cycle very fast. I get confused, mad, upset then fall asleep like clockwork when something bothers me. I have been picking my fingers and chewing the inside of my mouth since I was a kid. I do it compulsively when I am worried about or thinking deeply about something. I cannot control when I start it, I just look down and am doing it. I have been doing it since I was very small. When I was a kid I would sleep walk and ramble on and on. I would walk into my parents room and speak feverishly to them with my eyes open while asleep. I would get very upset if woken up. I have had night terrors for a very long time. Most of my dreams are scary and involve the people I love and things going very wrong. I used to wake up at night and think my pets would be dead in my bed because I would roll onto them. I still have night terrors but I am not talking fast in my sleep again, when I have a bad day, sometimes my husband talks to me and I literally answer him back and don't remember. I sometimes need to be woke up multiple times a night as I am talking very fast in my sleep and am having a bad nightmare. I have huge sensory problems. I am itchy constantly, light burns my eyes and sometimes I cant even keep them open when I drive I forget my sunglasses. I curse a lot, I cannot help be completely obnoxious when I am tired. My body twitches and jerks lightly and is worse when I am upset. I have terrible balance when I am tired or upset. My stomach is terrible and its all anxiety driven as well as gluten/carbonated drinks. I have PMDD. I am very afraid of death and of the general public, I hate to lie and I care little for money. I have a very hard time with organization and keeping on task. Keeping on task is the worst.

I hope I've comprehended your post correctly - apologies if I go off track.

I grew up in a turbulent household in a family with history of G.A.D/Manic depression/sociopathy and alcohol abuse problems. When I first came to this forum I was convinced that I was AS, but a therapist who specialised in kids with AS said I showed none of the signs, and that I was most likely G.A.D.

If you have already been diagnosed with AS by a professional, I would trust that diagnosis. It annoys me that your other therapist is questioning it, and I would say he/she should be working alongside that diagnosis, not against it. Its entirely possible for you to be AS and also have some form of G.A.D too.

There is a genetic link between autism, bipolar, schizophrenia, depression and ADHD. Since you've both in your family, bipolar and autism, it's difficult to tell from that standpoint if autism and ADHD could be more correct. But in fact autism is girls in the high functioning spectrum is very often hard to notice since they learn the social cues very well in many cases. There is also a high overlapp in symptoms between autism and ADHD. So you've sensory issues in both, but just routines in autism for example. Tony Atwood once said that some autistic girls attapt very well in adulthood, but that they need a second longer to answer, since they've to think about their social behaviour before they respond.

Christopher Gillberg once stated that many children get diagnosed back and forth between autism and ADHD, but that in fact both might be correct. There is also a high probability to fullfill the diagnostic criteria of just one of the two fully and to have tendencies of the other.

Maybe this helps to figure out the correct dx in your case.

OP,
had a look into borderline personality disorder to see if its a possibility as well?