Who got you diagnosed with what?

Post Reply New Topic

My mom got me diagnosed with AS.


A friend I met at the Y (who is diagnosed with a bunch of things, all mild except for the depression) suggested I go get diagnosed with something because I was "very, very high-strung" and my mom and another guy from the Y who's an acquaintance of ours said that if I want/need it then to do it, so I went, my mom came with me, and I got put on an antidepressant, though to my knowledge I wasn't diagnosed (my shrink doesn't believe in labels). However, he keeps seeing me to see what's wrong... he says I'll probably get diagnosed with "a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, like Asperger's" though he isn't sure I have/am AS... he also said he was very glad I mentioned to him about Sensory Processing Disorder... someone on this board told me about this one when I was complaining about my sensory deprivation and I told him... and now he seems to think I have that too, though he doesn't like labels and said "All these labels, eh?" "How about I diagnose you as a human being?" He seemed to consider ADD for me too, when I mentioned to him that someone on here said I probably had ADD... but he's like "ADD... all these labels... but is someone with ADD symptoms 400 years ago any different than someone with ADD now?"


So I've probably got myself diagnosed with a bunch of stuff now! Or not... he doesn't like diagnosing people.

I dont beleive in multyple dx's, One lady on another site I go to (for parents, this site i go to to talk to peers) had a son dx'ed with ADHA, AS, Bi-polar, OCD and 1 other thing, thats crazy, and i think many of these dx's have symptoms that overlap, and we as a society really need to be careful and not allow this to happen its insane.

My parents and the school got me Dx'ed when I was little because I was not social and acted strangely (slow talk, rocking, aloof) my mother at first thought it was a normal little boy thing (she never grew up with a brother) but my father (who is definatly AS) grew up with many brothers and systers and noticed I was not normal. I got Dx'ed first when I was 4-5 and then again when I moved (same DX) at the age of 8. Had I been DX'ed a decade later I woulda had the AS label instead of the HFA label.

My psychologist diagoised me wid autism wen i was 3 but wen i turn 11 i was den diagoised wid aspergers syndrome so i had 2 diagnosis.

Too many:

Most of the anxiety disorders (all of them I think)
autistic disorder

E: I got myself diagnosed, i.e., I told them and they agreed with me.

Clinicial Depression (Moderate) at 19, Generalized Anxiety Disorder at 26, AS at 31 and ADHD was added at 32. Now looking at things, the depression, the anxiety and ADHD were basically all tied into having AS in some ways or kinda as a result of really not knowing why I was different, having no help in dealing with things, etc.

The therapist I was seeing at age 13 got me diagnosed with ADD, because of the difficulties I was having in class at the time. That was during the mid 1990's, when ADD and ADHD were "fashionable" conditions to have. Asperger's Syndrome was virtually unheard of at the time.

My psychiatrist diagnosed me with AS back in year 7 or something...

I think my AS diagnoses was by accident. My mother wasn't even looking for that diagnoses when she took me to a shrink to see if she can try and find what was wrong with me. She had a list of 10 possibilities I might have and as the months went by, the list got narrower and narrower and then she said she thinks I have AS and my mother asked for a professional to look it over so she recommended a psychiatrist and he diagnosed me telling her it was the closest he can get for a diagnoses. I guess the other catagories didn't fit and AS was the closest for me. Whatever happened to PDD-NOS? Didn't have that then?
Now I need to see for myself that I have that or not.

At my bf's urging I went to see a psychologist for some pretty severe mood swings I was having in May. One of the things I told her was that I thought I had aspergers. She said she didn't think so, and gave me a few reasons why. But the next visit she had some diagnostic tools for asperger's and asked if I wanted to take them. A few days later she called and said I was standard deviation above the cutoff for having asperger's

a psychologist

Selective igA Deficiency. Not sure who exactly diagnosed me (GP or a doctor at a hospital). I only became aware of it when I was referred regarding Asperger's, because it was in the medical notes added to the letter. I was diagnosed as a one year old, but my parents were not aware of it, either.

I was referred (by my doctor) when I was seventeen/eighteen for councelling due to depression, but I'm not sure if I was formerly diagnosed as having depression. I only went to one appointment because I didn't like the lady.

And, of course, I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (by a psychologist at the CLASS clinic in April this year).