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Personality disorder vs Asperger's

Sarah2

I was recently assessed and told I have high functioning autism, not allowed to diagnose it Asperger's anymore i was told, however, i was wondering could hfa be confused with having a personality disorder? And could a person have both of these? I have taken online tests and always scored as a high candidate for personality disorder, does anyone have any insights on this?  

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    I'm not an expert as I'm only just starting down this path myself in a rather staggering and wrong-footed way!  But personally I think the biggest treatment is simply understanding oneself.  That's often the biggest challenge facing all of us, autistic or not.  Which isn't just some glib sound-bite, had I understood myself and my capabilities especially as a young adult I think I would have had a much less troublesome and more fulfilling life.

    I think it's also too easy to get bogged down in varying diagnoses and it's something I tend to do myself.  Not least as I have quite a number of them, though I suspect that many if not most or all have a common factor.  Whether or not warranted, I have a slight suspicion of "complex needs" (which is where I've ended up) as it ends up being nobody's responsibility to help with.

    Going back to the question in the subject line, the phrase "personality disorder" is an unfortunate one: "personality description" would probably be more helpful, at least to those of us at the pointy end of such diagnoses.  In that regard, I'd say that ASD is simply one of them because it's not a disease, it's not treatable, it just is.  It's a descriptive term, and knowing that is actually more helpful than it is fatalistic.

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    I'm not an expert as I'm only just starting down this path myself in a rather staggering and wrong-footed way!  But personally I think the biggest treatment is simply understanding oneself.  That's often the biggest challenge facing all of us, autistic or not.  Which isn't just some glib sound-bite, had I understood myself and my capabilities especially as a young adult I think I would have had a much less troublesome and more fulfilling life.

    I think it's also too easy to get bogged down in varying diagnoses and it's something I tend to do myself.  Not least as I have quite a number of them, though I suspect that many if not most or all have a common factor.  Whether or not warranted, I have a slight suspicion of "complex needs" (which is where I've ended up) as it ends up being nobody's responsibility to help with.

    Going back to the question in the subject line, the phrase "personality disorder" is an unfortunate one: "personality description" would probably be more helpful, at least to those of us at the pointy end of such diagnoses.  In that regard, I'd say that ASD is simply one of them because it's not a disease, it's not treatable, it just is.  It's a descriptive term, and knowing that is actually more helpful than it is fatalistic.

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