fear of being misdiagnosed

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good afternoon, I'm a 16 year old english girl living in belgium (at the moment).i would say all my life i've known i was different but only just yesterday i was diagnoised with asperger's syndrome. things are starting to clear up and at last there's a reason behind it all.i'm still haven't came to terms with it.

I've been seeing a psyciatrist for about three months now about my depression that i've been going through and yesterday i got the results back from the tests. at first i was sure i had bipolar disorder and this leads me to my question.

do people with asperger's syndrome ever experience periods were they feel much beter than normal ,periods when they don't feel at all unconfortable in social situations ?and take up information faster then average,which i normaly have problems with. see i've got periods were i loose all traits i have of asperger' syndrome.and was wondering if any of you had ever heard of this before.

thank you in advance.

I have times when some aspects of it are better, and other times when they're worse.
I don't think I have times where they all disappear completely, but definitely days where they seem better.

I am an adult diagnosed with Asperger's only recently. I would say that definitely yes, for me there have been times when I look back and think traits were stronger / less stronger.

Times of stress or over stimulation can cause me to have more noticeable signs of AS. Definitely the social thing comes and goes now, but I do need down-time away from people. I think girls apparently have more chance at developing coping mechanisms...I've definitely applied the "how would my friend X cope with this, what would she say" in a social situation...it sort of comes easily at times. Like a nervous tic I would most describe it...the more nervous I get, the more I tend to misfire my neurons!

When I don't make too many social blunders, I think I am almost NT and think its all a mistake, then comes a day of real Aspieness and I feel 'normal' again

OH YEAH! I have gone to church groups, and had a nice day acting normal. And the memory can be FUNNY! One day you can struggle to know something, be depressed, etc... The next day, BANG!, you know it all, and learning comes easy. BTW you probably are ASPIE.

Steve

Hello, nouvellevogue:

For me, this happens in both short periods (as when doing something for a few hours, able to retreat when I need to, I can join in with things that at other times I hate, and behave with perhaps no aspie traits, though people still sometimes class me as weird); and in long periods (months or longer), where I'm not depressed and am focused on something I want to do properly. In the latter case(s), I don't think I seem entirely NT (to myself or to other people), but I don't think anyone would diagnose me as autistic either, just antisocial. I develop passable interests in things like fashion (usually not the one everyone else is following ) and make acquaintances, if not friends. I forget about the things that are so, so difficult and awful at other times, and act pretty normally. Then something goes wrong, and the people I might have got to know a tiny bit put together all the tiny things I wasn't quite doing and realise it wasn't because I'm on the cutting edge of cool, but because I 'have stuff wrong with my brain'.

Is there more variation of this sort in girls than boys (because girls can sometimes fake NT so well, and then it collapses...)? Who writes about AS in girls? Can we expand the stereotype to cover us?

I have days when I almost feel 'normal' and sometimes surprise myself by being charming,
witty and self-assured. However,deep down I know that's just a 'persona' I've built up
over the years and there's always an underlying sense of anxiety about certain issues. The good thing is,people with AS can learn to cope with the anxiety etc and work towards being
the 'persona' they aspire to.