Did Anyone Think They Had ASD But It Was Something Else

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Did ASD seem like your likely problem but after Dx was something else.
If you don't mind answering , what were you Dx with?
I am looking for possible alternatives that share similar symptoms , and the key reason why you were not Dx ASD

I guess not then

Well I am still in the testing phase for ASD so who knows, but my dr expressed concern about distinguishing between OCD or ASD or both for me. As for other possible diagnoses, I'm betting personality disorders might look like ASD, such as Schizoid or Avoidant.

I've known some people who have had this happen to.

I had an online friend here who was a suspected aspie and was self diagnosed. He goes for an assessment and they say he had schizoid disorder but also said he has aspie traits but said schizoid fit him better. He agreed with the diagnoses.

There was a woman here who had a son that was recently diagnosed with AS and she recognized symptoms in herself. She goes for an assessment and they said she had sensory processing disorder. She agreed that fit her better than AS.

I saw a person on another aspie forum and she was also a suspected ASD person but had said not too long ago she came back and it turns out she has ADHD and depression.

There was a person of Reddit who I didn't know and he said he had ASD for two years but that was because a doctor told him he had it but none of them ever gave him any proper testing. He has had a bunch of diagnoses including ADHD. Then one day he finally finds a doctor that isn't so lazy and quick to diagnose so he gives him proper tests and does proper testing with him and he came back out as Social Anxiety, he had none of the other problems.

Just recently I saw a post on Reddit and the person thinks they are ASD but keeps coming out as NT despite having all the symptoms in the criteria so that person was asking if this had happened to anyone else.

I know a blogger online and she was a self diagnosed aspie for ten years and even had it confirmed by a psychiatrist but then she realized she didn't have it and she had CPTSD and that was her diagnoses when she decided to go back to therapy again to over come her trauma from childhood. She had realized didn't have it while she wrote on her blogs about narcissism and BPD and remembering her past abuse from her mother so she realized her symptoms could be explained by her trauma.

I have seen people mainly online who self-diagnose as ASD (for some reason this type always seem to take great joy in labelling themselves 'Aspies'?) who in my view clearly have something else. Very few of them seem to go on to get a formal diagnosis though which raises my suspicions further.

Anyway, I would say it is more common the other way around - People are diagnosed or think they have a mental health condition such as OCD or Social Anxiety or maybe a personality disorder but later they find out they have ASD.

I have been labelled with various MH disorders in the past but then diagnosed ASD. I score high on all the various AQ tests and was diagnosed by an autism specialist. But still I often wonder if the diagnosis is correct. I can certainly tick some of the boxes for Schizoid personality too.

Before I was diagnosed with Asperger's (a little over 3 years ago), I wondered if I were going to get diagnosed with Schizoid PD, Obsessive Compulsive PD or simply Generalized Anxiety Disorder. There seems to be (at least to me) a lot of overlap between these conditions. As I previously have written, I am amazed that someone can actually differentiate between these conditions.

My whole life I have either been misdiagnosed or been a symptom shy of several diagnoses ( bipolar, borderline personality disorder, tourettes, adhd, generalizef anxiety disorder, depression and likely a few others).

Add to that a great number of medical issues including migraines with auras, IBS, severe ideopathic allergies, joint pain, hypeesensitivity to cold, and the list goes on.... I was recently diagnosed as autistic. It doesn't fix things, but at least I'm not attacking the wrong things with the wrong tools. I have excellent care from an autistic therapist who works with my other medical professionals and advovates for me.

Schizophrenia was what I was gonna explore next if it wasn't autism, I researched the everloving crap out of that alongside autism but no it wasn't that, I can't say 'thankfully' as this thing is pretty heavy and I don't have that thing, they're both rather damaging, I'd rather have neither of them but there you go.

I have a cluster of neurological conditions that very closely mimics AS globally. I have pretty much all the traditional comorbid stuff, like sensory processing disorders, attention deficit, motricity problems, a unique way to process numbers and some sort of gift with math, and I also have socialization issues and problems with recognizing faces, not sure I haven't forgotten something... The only things that seem to exclude AS (although the neurologist seems to have had more and more doubts lately, so who knows) are that I apparently had no issues recognizing emotions, that I have an extremely atypical profile in IQ subtests, and also a few differences in my brain seen in fMRI. From what my neurologist told me, it seems like I've been lucky to have found one of the only specialists of what I have because otherwise any other neurologist would have diagnosed me with AS. That said, my condition is treated pretty much the same right now. Just more experimentally, because it's so rare that they can't even find enough people with the same condition to study.

I thought that I might have Asperger's, but the incompetent shrinks kept telling me I was a schizoid (which I think is a misdiagnosis), and the last one diagnosed me with Generalized Anxiety Disorder as well. Then I got diagnosed with auditory processing deficit last year.

I'm not sure if that GAD diagnosis is legit because I don't have unreasonable fears; I mainly feel anxious when I have to listen and I know that my auditory processing deficit is going to be a problem.

I'm new to this site.
I was googling to see if there are more people with autism or Asperger that have something similar to echolalia but not voiced out.

From time to time I have sentences that keep repeating in my head over and over again.

(something like delayed echolalia but only in my head)

These are sentences that are part of conversations (also from years ago), (things I have said or things that others have said.) Also parts from different conversations that I keep repeating in my had one after the other in random order.

Maybe its a way to practice conversations.


These sentences distract me from keeping concentrated when I study something, sometimes, (that's why I first thought hat I have ADD)

My psychiatrist told me that it's delayed echolalia.

I wonder how how common this sort of echolalia is with people ho have Asperger?

I read that a lot off people with autism have echolalia or delayed echolalia where they actually speak the words. But I cant find anything about the echolalia like I an you have.

What do you think?

I did online the The ''Reading the Mind in the Eyes'' Test Revised Version.
I had 28 out of 36. NT have an average 26 out of 36 and people with asperger's have an average of 22 out of 36. I should mention that I have done very thorough testing and have taken all the time. I do not know how long the others have spent.

Do these results say something about whether I have Asperger's or not?
What do you think.
P.S. sorry for my English

Thanks for all your answers guys (sorry for the delay in replying, I forgot about this post ) .

I'm at least 15 months away from an assessment so won't know whats wrong with me for a while.

Greetings. I know someone who thought they had ASD and their psychiatrist thought so too, but it turns out that they didn't, but displays many autistic traits. I guess they didn't even show just the social problems, since in the DSM-V, they added social communication disorder, which is like autism without the restrictive and repetitive behaviours. I know they were disappointed because they feel now that their messed up with no reason for it. They do have anxiety and depression though. They did the ADOS I believe, and didn't meet the criteria.