Have people ever thought you'd had a different diagnosis?

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People have thought I'd had:
- Schizophrenia
- ADD
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline
- Mental retardation

What about you?

My teacher at college thought I had Tourette's.

People just thought I was ret*d when I was a child. Someone online thought I was a psychopath but she thinks that about lot of people so it's nothing personal. Some think I am slow.

People have though I had ADD (which I am actually diagnosed with), OCD, paranoid PD, that I was mentally ret*d or that I had schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
About the last two I think it's just the common sterotype and ignorance that make people view schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as having a lot of mood swings (which I do) and nothing more. A person who knows mental disorders would never think I am schizophrenic or bipolar.

The R-word for me

Before diagnosis:

OCD: (Which I do, but just that alone)
Schizophrenia
Borderline Personality
Social Anxiety

There were a few people in my past who thought I was ret*d. Thank God I've never seen those people again.

I was diagnosed bipolar even though I had no manic symptoms simply because my mother is, then was given twice the normal dose of Lithium. I remember leaving the office, going home, taking my second dose, then waking up in the ER from overdosing.

ret*d, genius, ADD, ADHD, skizo, psycho, you name it. I was called it. They didn't have asperger's until 1994 which by then I was long out of school and into the adult world.

When I was young my foster parent told me that the social workers thought I had downs syndrome.

I don't have it. I don't even understand how they could have even reached that conclusion. f*****g idiots.

Someone at college asked me if I had autism (I have Dyspraxia and Aspergers so they were almost right)

Are we talking about people in general/person, people online or professionals?

People online have accused me of having all sorts based on my posting style and some of my videos where I was trying to employ a little drama or humour or both. So everything from schizophrenia because I made a post about EVP (Electronic voice phenomena) to Bipolar to Borderline personality disorder to Asperger's to just being a troll, a fake or trying to cause trouble on purpose with my 'controversial opinions', overly verbose and detailed posts and obsessional style posting where I couldn't just leave something alone until it had been resolved.

People in real life..just think I am weird. That is all I get from them.

Professionals: The psychiatrist I spoke to a number of years ago laughed at the suggestion that I had schizophrenia (I asked him if it were possible). I have never even been considered for a diagnosis of bipolar or Borderline personality disorder. A support worker and my recent therapist seem to think I have Asperger's, and my official diagnosis (made some years ago now) still stands at social anxiety and depression. I am very reasonable at appointments, don't break the law, don't self medicate with drugs, did go through a phase of drinking for a few months and did have a minor issue with binge drinking 13 years ago but that has ceased now (was teetotal for 13 years until recently when I attempted to drink socially again only to realise it was not going well...ergo I abandoned it), am not prone to violence (although I will hit a bully if pushed enough over a long enough period of time if I need to to defend myself) and so on. Ergo I am odd but rather tame, even with my head hitting screaming upsets, which I try to restrict to the privacy of my own home when I am alone if possible (basically I avoid anything that might set me off when out and about...) so other than Social Anxiety, Depression, GAD and Asperger's no other diagnosis has really been considered.

Schizoid Personality Disorder
GAD
Dysthymia
OCD
Avoidant Personality Disorder

By professionals:
-Tested for brain tumor and genetic disorders (birth to 3 years).
-Diagnosed non specific developmental delays (2.5 years).
-Tested for ADD/ADHD (7-8 years).
-Diagnosed Asperger's (13 years).

By family:
-Retarded (elementary school up to AS diagnosis).
-Oppositional Defiant Disorder (16 years).
-Sociopath (20 years).

By peers:
-Retarded (elementary school through high school).
-Psychopath (high school).
-Sociopath (high school).

I was diagnosed with ADD and was suspected for having ADHD. I had other labels before the aspie one but I wouldn't say they were all incorrect, they just didn't explain everything. ADD I am skeptical about.

Diagnosed by various professionals as lactose intolerant; ADD; depression; unofficially, social anxiety. Been diagnosed with AS for about 6 years now.