Would you rather be autistic or have BPD?

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There are nine symptoms in the DSM-IV, and only five are required for a diagnosis. Or in my case, only 1.5 symptoms were apparently necessary. But that means there's a lot of potential variation, although they tend to center around common elements (at least from what I've read) that may or may not be described by symptoms.

Honestly, everything I know, I think that it has very little business being Axis II.

I'd rather be autistic, because I see my autism as something to celebrate.

Autistic, hands down.

So much misunderstanding on this forum.

I'd rather just be myself. I am getting tired of labelling and being labelled. I am a human being and I am what I am because I am. No more labels required.

Yep, I don't know shiz about BPD.

People will claim your emotion is fake and a manipulative ploy if from their perspective it looks out of proportion. Chastising someone for experiencing an intolerable emotion and expressing it negatively is like chastising someone for screaming and thrashing when they're set on fire. People expect that if you merely rationalize something the way they do it will get rid of the emotion, as if it's a mere intellectual feat and you're just an idiot for feeling the way you do. Also, someone feeling manipulated by you doesn't imply that your behavior is some calculated ploy.

Anyways, I don't know if I have BPD. I score high on a lot of the traits and I definitely have the "emotional dysregulation" issues. I don't really fit all the symptoms though. Being autistic and asexual seems to offset a lot of the stereotypical symptoms. My bad irritability issues may be partially due to all the anti-depressants I'm taking not working too well.

I can relate just enough to know I'd vastly prefer to just be autistic.

I'm neither, but I wouldn't care for the suspicious natured quickly polarized mental set of BPD. The moods are catastrophic from one extreme to another, and there is more than a general tendency for these to be verbally abusive ..... It's all compartmentalized and reason bounces off here due to the "splitting." If you are tough like a punching bag, or can be like a duck and let the water roll off, you'll do OK around it.

I'd take mild Aspergers. If my senses were not to subject to overload, I'd take ToM issues any day. In fact I wonder myself if I'd swap it out for my ADD at times.

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Cake.

I was on a self-harm forum a while back. I was one of the few people there without BPD. Having seen what they go through, I'd take an ASD over that any day.

Suicidal behavior is "normal" for people with BPD while talking about uninteresting things is "normal" for autistics.
severe autism can lead you to be a mute grown up baby, but happiness is always possible right? severe BPD can be a death sentence, in fact I bet it often is.

So I think I'd rather be autistic.

I have neither and I have heavy aspects of both, my bipolar sort of gives the "effect" of BPD while my problems with psychosis look like autism.

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Do you agree that it should be a mood disorder perhaps? Or even a form of Bipolar disorder as some professionals have suggested?

Would you rather be autistic or have BPD?

I can not imagine how a bird feels about being born that way.
At times I wish I could fly, but there are many other consequences I would rather not deal with.

I don't see what the point of this is......just so everyone can say they are glad they aren't like people with BPD, just seems a little unessisary. I think we have pleanty of threads about how horrible of a condition BPD is and how everyone with it is an evil, manipulative abuser. Come on why the need to compare so much?

It seems to be a matter of emotional dysregulation and hypersensitivity to others' moods and actions. I am not sure if it would be either, as I think bipolar's mood cycling is significantly more stable. It does seem to be very mood disorder.

A mood disorder? don't think so because it's not just about the mood........BPD involves a lot of specific personality traits not just problems with emotions and moods. So it would not be a good idea to lump it in with mood disorders.