Do people try to make your diagnosis into something it isn't

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My parents tried to make it into a disability I probably don't even have. My mom does show a few Munchhausen by proxy traits. Not saying she has the disorder, but she has made up things to tell the psychiatrist...probably so I would seem discredible when I tried to tell them about the intense emotional abuse at home. I wanted to move out and get my own apartment (even if it was the crappiest one in the world) because I couldn't cope with her bullying anymore. She refused to help me get one because I supposedly needed to into a group home first to learn how to be independent. I ran away from home (I was 27 at the time) and spent five days in a homeless shelter.

My mom thinks I'm bipolar because I have the audacity to show emotion once in a while. My mom would trigger me into meltdowns and thus, she thought I was bipolar. People around here know absolutely Jack s**t about autism. I think I was only diagnosed as a kid because I presented more like a boy than a girl. But if you are a high functioning autistic female ADULT, forget anything. You can only get "help" for comorbids...and that help doesn't really help me when the psychiatrists and psychologists around here don't know anything about autism.

I had mood swings during puberty, but that wasn't a sign of being a teenage girl, that was a sign of bi-ploar. If I wasn't chipper all the time, I was bipolar. My mom says being around me is like walking on eggshells...I always felt the same way about her and my mom could get VERY angry to the point of being scary. But apparently, I'M the one with issues because I react to things and try to do something about them or don't stand around waiting for someone else to solve them or just accept them and think my complaining to random people is going to do something.

Sort of. It may not be the same thing but my mother used to pretend I was "clinically depressed" in order to disguise some of my ASD symptoms from her friends. When they asked "why doesn't she have any friends? why no boyfriend? why does she look unkempt? etc." she would always answer "she's very, very depressed and mentally ill" - as opposed to telling the truth. This went on for years.

She even told this lie to her sister - I remember receiving a Christmas card one year from my aunt with the words "Beth there is good meds now to treat your mental illness. Keep taking your meds. I believe in you". Sigh.

I can't exactly blame her though. It is what it is.

My mom will call my interests OCD but yet she hasn't said that about my husband and his computer. She also says everything is just anxiety when in fact she told me in Junior high, anxiety was part of Asperger's. She also told me OCD was part of Asperger's too so I thought OCD and anxiety were symptoms of autism but they had different labels for each symptom.