Have you ever experienced doubts about your diagnosis?

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sometimes I wonder if Im more LD than asperger.

i had some doubts but came to terms with it whats LD you mean like dyslexic if so i have both

Not really. I didn't make the diagnosis, it's just the label they put on me. The only thing I think like that is that maybe I should toughen up and that I'm a wimp for not being able to deal with my issues.

I think I'm in the spectrum, but maybe not "severe" enough to get a diagnosis.

[, but your autistic traits become more apparent under stress?[/quote]

I am a basket case under stress. often I cannot even speak. Then when I can speak I have difficulty with those "big words."[ you know, dog, the, bed...yes, I have actually not been able to rememb.er the word bed, describing it as "the thing most people sleep on at night] or else I ramble on and on and on and on and on. My stims get crazy wild and I have difficulty distinguishing between something disturbing but relatively petty and a true crisis.

I had a period of fairly stress free years in my early to mid forties. During that time I was considered 'normal" by most who met me. I was even told by many that I had charisma during that time in my life. Even though I knew I was still "differrent" inside, I thought that maybe I was finally outgrowing "it", whatever "it" was. This is no longer the case.

I've had the opposite experience: I've doubted all of my other diagnoses other than AS. At age 6 I was diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, ODD, and generalized anxiety disorder. When I was 12 I diagnosed myself with AS but everyone (teachers, therapists, doctors) said that I didn't have it. until last year. I was in treatment for 11 years, during which I had 4 neuro-psych evals done, until I was finally correctly diagnosed. I was so relieved when that happened and I've finally gotten the supports that I need. For me I don't really "fit" the profiles of any of the other conditions (except for anxiety).

Actually, even the professionals were at times sort of baffled by me in trying to figure me out, until I was diagnosed with AS. Once I was diagnosed everything fell into context for me and suddenly I was making sense to the professionals

I think, the problem is, that AS can be very hard to detect in functional persons.
It can look like social anxiety, character neurosis, different personality disorders, or ADHD/OCD, - both of which are typical comorbids. Furthermore AS was, until a few years ago believed to be rare, which it isn´t.
The picture of the "required" traits and their "required" intensity also change once in a while, so everybody is confused, - even the professionals.

Personally I went for a dx, because I felt very misunderstood and couldn´t bear all those wrong labels, - and I had been told, that I have autistic traits...so....
I don´t really fit the stereoptype either, but when I look back, I can see unmistakable signs all along.
People, teachers, therapists have been wondering about me. Now I can explain

I have had doubts about it in the past, but then out of the blue all my symptoms seem extremely exposed and it's then when I realise that the diagnosis is correct.

Deleted for being too long and rambling. Blegh.

Last edited by Makar on 17 Jan 2014, 10:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

This makes sense. When I went in for my diagnosis, I was half-way expecting a personality disorder diagnosis.

The OP didn’t ask this, but the one reason why I believe my diagnosis, is that the neuropsychological testing exposed issues with complex memory processing, which impacts Executive Functioning and Multi-Tasking. Interestingly, I had no clue I had issues with either. Yet, now that I am aware of this, I realize it is so.

I was somehow diagnosed at 6 based on abnormal focus some stims and a lack of regard for social boundaries while always having good eye contact and switch topics in conversation so I was a borderline case and was on the fence of aspergers and ADHD with OCD I was diagnosed in 2001 and I've heard it was over diagnosed back then and I likely wouldn't be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2013 but whether I really have it or not was something my family grappled with especially when I had a meltdown but now they think it was a misdiagnosis but I still think I might have since I've always struggled socially and had abnormal issues with some stims

I was somehow diagnosed at 6 based on abnormal focus some stims and a lack of regard for social boundaries while always having good eye contact and switch topics in conversation so I was a borderline case and was on the fence of aspergers and ADHD with OCD I was diagnosed in 2001 and I've heard it was over diagnosed back then and I likely wouldn't be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2013 but whether I really have it or not was something my family grappled with especially when I had a meltdown but now they think it was a misdiagnosis but I still think I might have since I've always struggled socially and had abnormal issues with some stims