What other diagnosis did you get before Asperger's?

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ADHD
Antisocial PD
Depression
Narcissistic PD
OCD
Schizophrenia

Schizoid Personality Disorder

I was diagnosed with SPD at age 19 and was left to believe it for decades. About 5 years ago I began reading more and more about SPD and began to disagree with this diagnosis increasingly, primarily due to the fact that Schizoids want to be isolated socially, which is not at all the case with me. In my case, I long for one on one social interaction (I still hate groups and overbearing types), but have always made so many blunders that I simply can't get there from here. Then about a year ago I found out about Avoidant PD, which seemed to fit me better except for the self loathing trait, which I do not have. It was not until six months ago in the process of trying to better understand someone else whom I suspected of being autistic that I recognized this as the perfect description of myself. This has since been confirmed. It only took me 60 years and 41 years after that SPD diagnosis to find out. The interesting twist to the story is that the shrink who originally diagnosed me with SPD went on to specialize in schizophrenia and became the head of a clinic specializing in that condition in Hawaii prior to his retirement. As always, specialists of any kind see their speciality coming out of the woodwork.

ADHD, my psychologists now say I have no signs of a learning disabilities. I spent 1st grade to 10th grade getting spit on, beat up, tormented, and even set on fire once because people thought I was retarded. f**k the seventies and eighties.

I was diagnosed with Schizo affective disorder by a few doctors or Schizophrenia by one doc. I've always had depression and social anxiety as well. I finally found a doctor that told me I had AS and that other doctors weren't giving me the time of day to make an accurate diagnosis. I did my own research only to find that she was right and I do not fit the schizo affective or schizophrenic diagnosis... and very much fit as an aspie.

social phobia
depression
various other anxiety disorders - GAD, selective mutism
and an eating disorder.

I had just one short diagnostic screening prior to seeing someone about the AS, however.

before AS: ADD (before it was inattentive subtype of ADHD), , non-verbal learning disability (even though technically this is not a disorder in the DSM)

AS at 13 years of age

After AS: major depression, panic disorder and "OCD traits"

So I've been through the ringer too =)

As a teenager, I was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and told that I probably had Borderline Personality Disorder (though it really didn't suit me in the slightest). GAD didn't particularly suit me, either. I was rather turned off from psychiatry/psychology for some years at the lack of insight demonstrated by the professionals I visited.

Bipolar, which is under the umbrella of schizophrenia... I've read many other stories of people being similarly misdiagnosed.

I was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, anxiety disorder and clinical depression when I was 13. I needed to get those problems under control before the doctors could tell I was autistic, which is why I wasn't diagnosed with AS till I was 15.

Classic autism
PDD
phycosis
ADHD

ADHD
OCD
ODD
Major Depressive Disorder
Schizophrenia (though I have never had any "positive" symptoms (they were erroneously inferred))
presently AS is my only official diagnosis

What could only be described as a nervous breakdown when i was 12, due to extremely bad problems with my father, and varying problems through my youth, especially at school. Got a diagnosis of Bipolar in my first year at uni, although that is now regarded as a misdiagnosis. In fact, all my traits, especially when I experienced trauma, could basically be put down to AS, although I'm not currently diagnosed.

I was diagnosed with ADD and Discalculia, eight years ago. 1 year and 5 months ago with AS.

This started in 1975, the stone-age of pshchology:
Learning Disabilities, Hyper-Activity, ADD (with Ritalin), OCD, various Anxiety disorders, high IQ, boredom in class, depression, wrong diet for my blood type, not enough Jesus (we're Jewish), lead poisoning (turned out to be true), mercury poisoning, bizarre allergies, exposure to too much sunlight, not enough attention (I'm one of five siblings), and one doctor who said, "He has a severe case of DOING HIS OWN THING." That was the doctor who put the electrodes on my head. I saw him on PBS once with some kid hooked up to a model train set. I liked him. He gave me peanuts and raisins every time I made the needles go to zero (biofeedback).

When it was suggested I had Aspergers, I didn't know what it was. I read a small amount and said, "Okay. I know what that is. Its just a name for what I asked about 35 years ago. I could write you a book about it by now."

My son was diagnosed with Severe ADHD at the age of 4 yrs 10 mos. He took very high and frequently-spaced doses of ritalin, concerta and dexedrine.

Finally, because of years of frustration, among many other things , his diagnosis of Aspergers was finally confirmed at the age of 14 yrs 6 mos. Now the struggle has begun to obtain services/supports in an area where services are only available to children 0-5.