ASD & personality disorder

I just want to say that i completely agree with everything you said about having a 'disordered personality'. Thank you so much for this. Nobody has a disordered personality. 

NAS15431 said:

i kind of have the opposite problem, the psychiatrist told me 'i would diagnose you with chronic depression but autism covers all the symptoms' because he heard i had an autism diagnosis!

But a diagnosis of chronic depression is more of a statement that you have a problem and something needs to be done. Having a diagnosis of autism will help guide them to the right treatment for your depression. Autism gives us a predisposition to depression and you would treat an autistic person with depression differently to someone who had depression for other e.g. chemically based reasons.

Hi,

Sorry to join this discussion so late. I've just found it. I agree with everybody.  Also,If you google BPD and go to NHS CHOICES AND MIND, they now diagnose under DSMV4 and you have to tick 5 boxes to qualify. It is also charecterised by intense, personal relationships with severe abandonment panic within these realtionships i.e constantly phoning and texting and crying, begging and hugging  them not to leave you as they go out the door. Living with aspergers for some people,especially females is very stressful and emotional, so is easily confused for BPD-Some people with aspergers do develop BPD as a way of coping with the severity of aspergers, but trust your gut instinct.

Well said Classic  Codger.

I'd like to see compulsory logic classes for the poor NTs who don't reason as well as we do.

If you're an AS person, you're going to be missunderstood, missinterpreted and misdaignosed. Being told that you have a disordered personality is not only wrong, it's insulting and discriminatory. Many of us have expressed a history of false diagnosis, and as has been said elsewhere, once the 'psychs' have got an opinion, no matter how rubbish it is, they'll hang on to it because they haven't usually got the strength of character to admit they are wrong. In my experience, and that of others.

Emily, 'sometimes' doesn't come into it. The only people who understand the complexity of AS is us, and that's why we must continue to talk amongst ourselves and advocate on behalf of the undiagnosed, especially our children. The so-called 'mental' problems that we face are a direct result of our struggles to exist in an NT world. If you watch NTs, they are totally unsane. For instance, they spend billions of pounds on nuclear weapons that will never be used, while children die daily through lack of clean water, decent food or cheap medicines.

When the lunatics run the asylum, everyone gets infected...

Hi I'm in a similar state. I'm 23 and have only just been diagnosed as autistic and have now recently been talking about BPD and I don't think that's me at all. 

Sometimes I think other people just don't understand how complex autism is. Or how difficult It is. When I was talking to the lady who diagnosed me she understood entirely everything that I said because she was an expert experienced in ASD. I feel like alot of the people I've encountered in the mental health services just don't get it when you say you don't understand or don't like something and are all too quick to attribute your difficulties to something else mental health related. In fact I don't feel like sometimes they realise that autism just makes some things more difficult. If I were NT I wouldn't be struggling in this way but because I have a range of problems which are exacerbated by my autism I instantly have a more serious mental health problem. 

Sorry, I'm pretty sure I've not answered your question and have gone on an off-topic rant but I just thought I'd reply to let you know I kind of understand your difficulties. 

BPD has been mentioned by a few posters...

community.autism.org.uk/.../"borderline personality"

Mostly, people have had the BPD label misapplied before someone figured out that ASD was the real underlying problem. Psychiatry seems to be a very inexact art/science and labels seem to be able to be applied and removed on a regular basis. Presumably you will need to get a psychiatrist to formally state that you do NOT have BPD. It may be worth consulting with Mind or another mental health body about how to go about that.