DandelionFireworks wrote:
Borderline Personality Disorder, in which individuals are driven toward risky behavior and promiscuity. Rather the opposite of our needing routine.
Actually there can be quite a lot of overlapping symptoms between BPD and AS. Enough that someone with one is sometimes misdiagnosed with the other by an inexperienced doctor. People with BPD also have meltdowns similar to AS, though theirs are more often triggered by relationship problems rather than general anxiety or sensory issues. It also seems like both have more trouble controlling anger and dealing with things "not going their way" than the general population.
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Except they also show black-and-white thinking.
AS "black-and-white thinking" is very different from BPD "black-and-white thinking". AS can seem black-and-white because they are overly logical or miss social/emotional nuances. BPD black-and-white thinking is due to a psychological defense mechanism called "splitting". They view the world through the lens of thier own emotions which are often chaotic and inconsistent, thus people are either overly admired or intensely disliked, and sometimes their opinion of a specific person can change from one to the other with no regard to logic. In this regard BPD is sort-of opposite AS as people with AS are usually much more logical than emotional.