Misdiagnosed?

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As I child I was diagnosed with AS but over the last few years I doubt I actually have it. I've taken both the AQ and the Aspie test online and scored a 10 on the AQ and a 35 on the other one. I have no real issues socializing and making friends. I do decently in school without any accommodations. I have a normal and healthy social life for someone my age. Making small talk is not an issue for me. Is it possible I was misdiagnosed as a child and likely have something else?

Misdiagnoses can always happen (and has also happened with me in the past), but some autistic children grow it out.
So, they show autistic signs as children, but not anymore as grown ups. Approx. 15% of children on the autistic spectrum will grow it out, usually those who had just some signs at children.

I do not know your full story so it is hard to say if you was misdiagnosed or not, but there exist always the possibility to be misdiagnosed and I think misdiagnosis is a more common phenomenon than is healthy for the medical industry.

The best you can do is to examine your own history and search alternative reasons for the symptoms which made you get an AS diagnosis as a child. Then if you find clear evidence that the AS diagnosis may seems wrong, take it up with a doctor.

I feel like that, but I am an aspie. I just had to work on those things thats why they are not really issues for me anymore

I dont meet the criteria anymore but I did once

I look at it like depression rather than an fixed feature.

However I still get 34 on the AQ test but that also depends on my mood when i take the test.

My biggest issues were more behavioral than anything else. And I have largely out grown those unless I'm depressed in which case I tend to fly off the handle at small things. I do have periods of extreme insomnia, where I sleep 2-4 hours every night and function just fine. I feel wide awake in fact. But at other times all I want to do is sleep and I'll have periods where given the chance will sleep 12+ hours a day.

Sounds like you may have something like rapid cycling bipolar and were misdiagnosed. Is there a professional you can talk to?

My only social issue now is in keeping friends sometimes. But I bring that on myself. They piss me off, I piss them off and than I decide that I hate them and they're worthless. But than like a day later I try to gain them back as friends and try to act like nothing happened.

That sounds more like the social issues of bipolar or borderline people, not autistic people.

It does seem like you were probably misdiagnosed. On the other hand, it's possible you aren't aware of some AS traits you have. The social traits in particular can be hard to see from 'within'.

That's a good point.

Sounds like misdiagnosis to me, eggspecially if diagnosis based on behavioral problems instead of autistic behaviors.

Misdiagnosis is very common. (has that username been taken???????)

Doctors tend to diagnose the conditions that their offices will be paid to treat.

My lack of sleep gets rather bad after awhile. I get such little sleep and have such little sleep reserves. That it actually reaches the point of hallucations. Strangely enough I enjoy "tripping" from lack of sleep. I had gotten 20 hours of sleep in the last 6 days last night. I thought I was in a video game, yet was strangely still wide awake in the earlier hours of the morning.

If I where you, I would go to a psychiatrist and check for bipolar and borderline, those two would be my guess, that one of those two or even both diagnosis are correct.

I know I should, but I don't want to. Cause I don't want to take medication and turn into a f*****g zombie. I've seen too many people turn into zombies on bipolar meds.

I guess you don't have to take medications, if you don't want to.
I'Ve also a bipolar suspicion and I just take agomelatione -and that also just very recently- because I want to.

I agree with that, that some meds can turn you into a zombie, but some help you. I took once lithium orotate a while ago and it helped me. I also want to try because of that experience lithium carbonate, but when it wouldn't help, I'll life without it again. But for me, that's my decission. Very important is a good psychiatrist, who just doesn't give you s**t, you don't want to and you can say what you want to take and so on...!

Some meds work better than others, and a competent psychiatrist will make an effort to find a dosage and medication that causes as few of side effects as possible. Plus, as long as you're able to function well enough to avoid getting locked up, no one will be able to force you to take your meds if you don't like them.

Even if you don't decide to medicate, knowing if you're bipolar can be helpful because there are ways of handling it without meds. For one thing, avoiding sleep deprivation is particularly important as it can trigger mania (as well as being a symptom of it!). And if your loved ones learn about it, they can be more understanding of your mood swings and less likely to take it personally or whatever.

If you're borderline, instead, there are no meds for borderline personality - it's treated by intensive counseling. (My 1st year psych prof specialized in borderline personality.) Occasionally they will prescribe medication for comorbid issues such as depression, but usually not.