Other conditions besides asperger's?

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I have asperger's as well as ADHD. How common is this? Do many people have other diagnoses as well as asperger's? Or is it rare?

It's extremely common. Possibly more the rule than the exception.

ADHD and mood disorders are fairly common. All the statistics I've read on co-morbid diagnoses - except mental retardation in classic autism - did not seem all that scientifically sound.

I have anxiety, but I don't have ADHD. I have the hyperactivity part, but not the attention deficit, which seems to be more important, especially in adults and teenagers.

i have Aspergers and ADD (For those who do not no, ADHD without the H ). and Dyspraxia and SPD...

Definitely more common than not.

Autism/ADHD, here. Plus some mental-health stuff that isn't wired in.

Bipolar (pretty sure that psychologist was an idiot...even though he has the same IQ as me)
AS
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
ADD
Paranoid
Depression

really....I feel like MOST of the mental disorders aside from anything to do with multiple personalities applies to me...oh and bipolar...I'm too damn stable to be bipolar, now borderline I could believe.

I understand having at least one other condition is typical. The range is broad.

Most common is depression followed by social anxiety.

I have those, and residual PTSD and a mild gut sensitivity (seems to be gluten and casein).


In my opinion, Language Disorders are more common alongside AS than professionally recognised.

I also have depression, anxiety, PTSD and possibly ADD....there could be some other things hiding under the surface as well.

Dyscalculia and possibly ADD.

Yes I also have ADHD. It does seem to be associated with Asperger's quite a bit. I was called "hyperactive" (among other things) when a child in the 1960s, but the doctors in the U.S. back then couldn't figure out what was different about me. More than ten years ago when I first heard about Asperger's I was referred to a specialist at a local clinic. There was no testing, just a five minute interview, and he concluded I had ADHD but not Asperger's. He was wrong and I'm still ticked off at him for making such a cursory arbitrary diagnosis with such little justification. Apparently because I could talk to him and look him in the eye it was his opinion I didn't have A.S. The fact that I was near forty years old and could "fake" being normal for short periods much better than when I was younger apparently never crossed his tiny little mind. My special interests, never ever having had any friends due to problems with social interactions, and my sensory issues apparently meant nothing to him even though I told him these things.

To set the record straight, I have been officially diagnosed at least twice since then the past ten years with each diagnosis involving several hours of many different types of tests and observations, and I am now finally and properly set up (after yet another assessment by a psychologist) with the Developmental Disability branch of the local health department who referred me to the local Brokerage who have taken me on and assigned me a personal agent.

I also have low thyroid, high cholesterol, and I am pre-diabetic. I have low energy levels, erratic sleep patterns, chronic pain, and have been suicidally depressed, socially isolated, and extremely lonely for as far back as I can remember. Little sounds that other people can ignore feel like a sledgehammer hitting my head. Every sensory input is too much, like the volume cranked all the way up. I realized when quite young that I experience life far differently than everyone one else around me, differently even than anyone I ever heard about or read about. It wasn't until I was in my late thirties that a counselor suggested I might have Asperger's Syndrome. I did some research and reading the list of symptoms it was like light bulbs going off over my head. I self-diagnosed, had a clown fail to diagnose me from a five-minute interview, but since then I have been been correctly diagnosed after extensive testing.

It really ticks me off to hear or read of people who think Asperger's Syndrome is a made-up condition for lazy whiners. If they could only experience life as I do even for a moment, they would probably go mad and scream from pain and frustration.

I have Asperger's and paranoid schizophrenia, as well as having depressive tendencies and suggestions of dyspraxia. I also have a few medical conditions too. Sometimes people don't know if it's my paranoia/Voices that make me go very quiet often or my AS.

I have ADD, but I'm not as sure about the AS. A friend of mine has both ADHD and AS, though. I think they commonly occur together.

I have:

AS
PD
PTSD
MDD

... I seem to be a label collector.

What? I've found a study that indicated that intellectual impairments in autism (I hesitate to call it "classic" as it was moved from childhood schizophrenia to autism after some controversy) were overreported and never actually confirmed.

I have AS, ADHD, some kind of anxiety, some kind of depression. AS and/or ADHD also gave me sensory sensitivities and the dysgraphia.

I had anorexia; this is common, too, I think.
Boy am I glad to be out of that hole.

My father and sister are dyslexic...heck, I think the autistic spectrum/lefty/dyslexia (or so I've heard) 'megagene' runs in the family. We all dodged the closely-related (?) schizophrenia bullet.