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Borderline diagnosis

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Hi, 

My son and husband both have ASD but I'm actually selling advice for a friend who's adult son has considerable difficulties with social interaction which is affecting his ability to perform interviews and his ability to form meaningful relationships.  He is now suffering with severe depression.

His mum thinks that he has ASD and he has been assessed and diagnosed as borderline.  They are both now left wondering what this actually means for him and what support he can get. 

Has anyone else experienced this and do you have any advice on where to go from here? 

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  • While I am definitely not an expert, Borderline always sounds like a symptom of a misdiagnosis.

    While it is in the DSM IV https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494330/ It seems like it would take a great deal of effort to rule out malnutrition (due to something more biologically severe or due to a bad diet), stressful surroundings offering little hope or escape and/or psychosis. Patterns of difficult relationships can arise from a lack of understanding the complexity of them, a lack of proper parenting, all kinds of things. It is an interesting diagnostic in itself. But most of these 'symptoms' seem as though they are due to additional issues. 

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  • While I am definitely not an expert, Borderline always sounds like a symptom of a misdiagnosis.

    While it is in the DSM IV https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494330/ It seems like it would take a great deal of effort to rule out malnutrition (due to something more biologically severe or due to a bad diet), stressful surroundings offering little hope or escape and/or psychosis. Patterns of difficult relationships can arise from a lack of understanding the complexity of them, a lack of proper parenting, all kinds of things. It is an interesting diagnostic in itself. But most of these 'symptoms' seem as though they are due to additional issues. 

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