I have tried to find the answer to this via web searches, but I just can't get an answer. I would like to know the statistics for people who have misdiagnosed with ASD when they are later conclusively found not to have ASD (i.e. they have some other condition, or they don't have any condition at all). All I get when I search are stats for people misdiagnosed the other way: people on the spectrum who were wrongly diagnosed with something else at first, or people on the spectrum who were not thought to have any condition at all until ASD was considered.
Does anyone know the answer to this? Has anyone here been diagnosed with ASD only to find out later that you're not on the spectrum, or know someone this has happened to?
Can anyone point me to a site with stats for this type of misdiagnosis?
Is it possible to fake being on the spectrum to the extent that a professional expert would wrongly diagnose someone with ASD? Would anyone want to do so?
Any info whatsoever about this would be greatly appreciated.