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Hi. My name is Caroline. I am 32. I live in England. I am currently diagnosed with major depressive episode, anxiety and borderline personality disorder. Except that I think they might be wrong about the personality disorder part. I think I might be somewhere on the spectrum instead. It just seems to get me better.

I have only recently found out about AS (middle of August) so I am still researching but I feel like I have finally found the missing piece of the jigsaw. I think I would probably have qualified for a full AS diagnosis as a kid but as an adult I am not so sure, maybe PDD-NOS. It is exciting, confusing, wonderful, scary, a relief all rolled up together to have finally found a vocabulary and frame of reference for so much of what I have experienced and what goes on in my head so much of the time. But, as I have said, I am still researching so not yet confident to say I definitely have it. I have to make some decisions about therapy very soon so may well pop up with some questions about that, and also about whether to pursue a diagnosis or not.

I have a 9 year old daughter, Helen, who is wonderfully eccentric and I suspect that she may also be on the spectrum, although she is a very happy little girl. She has always been aware that she is a bit "weird" (her word), but we have brought her up to value being different and she has not been bullied so far so she is not bothered by this.

I also live with a wonderful husband, John, who is 52. He also has some traits but I don't think he is on the spectrum, just a bit introverted and anal which is probably why we get on so well.

Our family is completed by 3 cats. Mia, who is black, and her two little kittens - Ziggy (also black, but with tabby stripes) and Tabs (silver tabby).

So that's me. I hope I haven't said too much, I haven't read the other posts in this section to see what other people have put so I don't know how much people usually say. I hope that's OK.

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Mick

Welcome, Caroline. I love cats, and would like to live with a few, but life is full of decisions. My wife and her son are allergic, so no cats for me.

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Hello Caroline and welcome. I thought I was Borderline then Avoidant personality disorder - now I'm about 2 or 3 years into Aspie research. I'm inclined not to tell people I'm Aspie though because I don't feel that I can without being properly diagnosed. I pretty sure I am - it all fits - and it makes my weird life make more sense!

I also think that Borderline and Avoidant personality disorders are just undiagnosed Aspies (in other words these conditions don't really exist!)