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Borderline Personality Disorder w/ Sensory Processing Disorder. It was quite a punch in the stomach, but I think they are correct. Does BPD and Asperger's get mixed up a lot?
Not that I know of, but sensory processing disorders are often assumed to indicate AS, even though you can have sensory processing disorder without being autistic (if the only autistic traits you show are directly linked to sensory issues).
BPD causes social problems, but generally with a different flavour to them than AS. In some ways the exact opposite, since BPD people tend to read things in that aren't there (he says he can't talk to me during work hours, so he doesn't love me), while autistics tend to miss what is there.
One thing about BPD is that in almost all cases, it's caused by serious childhood abuse. Were you abused? (You don't need to answer that if you don't feel comfortable answering it.) The theory is that because you couldn't count on the important people in your life as a child, you never learned how to have a healthy, trusting relationship. Instead, you learnt a bunch of dysfunctional ways to pressure an uncaring or unreliable person into giving you affection, and you apply that to every relationship.
24 Jun 2011, 7:37 pm
