Being judged for having many issues

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People have a tendancy to assume that I'm merely faking my issues because I have been diagnosed with quite a few mental problems. When expressing the things I've got going on online anonymously before, I have been criticised greatly. Does anyone else experience this? I know it's because some of my issues 'clash' - what I mean by this is that I have been diagnosed and am being treated for ASD, ADD and Bipolar (type 2) (amongst others but that is an irrelevancy to this statement) as ASD is often misdiagnosed as ADD, and some psychologists believe that people on the autism spectrum can't have bipolar (which sounds ridiculous but a psych I once saw actually said that) plus unstable mood is a symptom of ASD. It's tricky s**t, and it's really hard to be dismissed as a fake when I'm trying my hardest to work through this and I don't have much support as it is

If I were just a bit worse, I could have your diagnoses, all of them. Instead I am borderline personality disorder but am on bipolar meds and on an anti depressant.
Bipolar means long periods of time being up then down. Daily mood swings aren't bipolar.

Many of my online friends know that I'm most likely autistic. They don't believe it for a second, though. It wasn't until I hosted a facetime webinar for some of my spiritualist students that they truly saw how many autistic traits I really have. (I rock from side to side and back and forth, I rarely look at the camera or monitor, I fidget, I stutter, my sentences end up broken or misunderstood by others, etc.) They didn't really understand until they could see me, because I'm so much more cognitive through text.

People will be like that. Just be yourself, and remember that you are not using your mental conditions as excuses right and left. You are just being you. If they don't respect that, then they don't need to be around you. My family also doesn't believe that I could be autistic because there are very, very few autistics in the family. It's exceptionally rare, so to them it's unrealistic. The only people who can have definite surety of what you have are those who diagnose you, and yourself.

I have felt that way a lot in my life and am still going through being judged for my issues. It's very hurtful when my loved ones are the ones doing it. I'm trying to spend more time with myself again as getting to know myself better helped me to feel better about myself, in the past. Maybe you can focus on strengthening your sense of self as well. People are still gonna judge and make ridiculous assumptions but we don't have to let them define who we are for us.

so what? you and only you really know you.

not much. people rarely reply to anything i say because ....well i don't know exactly why, but i don't care anyway. on some of my youtube videos, i have been lambasted for various reasons, but it's just like one bacteria in a sewage tank screaming disapproval as i pass by ......... in my mind.
i guess there is such a thing as intention momentum, and i have that.

"amongst" is an anachronism. it is now just "among", but apart from that, i do not think if people dismiss you as unimportant, that they would consider the likelihood of your variously reported diagnoses with respect to their probabilities of coexistence.
if they think that much about you that they find questions, then you may not be as unimportant as you think, but i think they don't.



well work through it on your own. don't hang on to the wildly swinging vessels of other peoples thoughts about you.

support is not possible when you are truly alone in your being (like i am)
strength has to come from within yourself.
i trust my ability to reason what is true as i see it, and only I know how i see it, so the rest is moot.

by the way, ADD is not really compatible with ASD in a fundamental way.
in a superficial way, ADD is characterized by the inability to hold attention to anything for long, and ASD also has as a characteristic, the inability to artificially create interest (through discipline) in anything that is not fundamentally interesting to them, so they will look elsewhere if they are not interested.
but in a more basic level, when a person with ASD finds something that is congruent with their thinking style, they will focus on it for far longer than the attention spans of even average people.

bipolar does suggest an inherently psychotic basis to your mind, and i also can see why other people may disagree that you could be both autistic and psychotic, but really, all you have to do is what you feel you should, and no matter what the questions from the rest, do not doubt your own reality.

I have a solid diagnosis of AS and a solid diagnosis of ADD.

But I often hear I am an impossible person.

I cannot help but completely disagree with this statement. Whilst those are characteristics to add and asd, these traits are not incongruent.
Your mind can have a tendency to get distracted whilst being unable to comprehend or become interested in certain topics, and obsessed with others. I do not understand why you believe that these things cannot happen at the same time.


So having an "inherently psychotic" mind means that people would assume that I'm lying about my issues? I'm confused.

that is not much of a surprise to me.

it does not matter really. i just don't.




yeah they may think you are suffering from delusions whatever. like i do but i am not interested in discussing it because i am off to bed.