Is it possible to have BPD if symptoms in childhood?

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Potential symptoms, such as having a protracted temper tantrum, do not occur in a vaccuum. Every child throws a bad temper tantrum at some point, and some do it more often. Every mother, or teacher of such children, are frustrated and overwhelmed by the temper tantrum and may say things which do not take into account the entire context of the tantrum. It can happen that bright children will have more difficult behaviour due to emotional sensitivity and the fact that they are brighter than their teachers. It is hard for teachers to come out on top.

I guess you've probably considered what I've just written. The underlying reasons why this happened for you need to be happening despite the environmental limitations, and they need to be consistent across a range of situations i.e. home, school, other places, and across time, in order for there to be an underlying diagnosis.

After working with people who have so-called 'challenging behaviour' more than 90% of the time it is not due to a problem with an individual but rather with their environment. Communication is important in such situations. There may well be something quite simple which is causing the 'behaviour'

I could go on, but the main point is well, sometimes it's just you being you in that situation and context, with a whole lot of people who don't understand you well. Consider that, and the relative weighting of each symptom, before you reach your conclusions.

I believe so (but I'm just an undergraduate psychology major). I just think that some BPD symptoms (like those pertaining to sexual behavior) may not manifest until puberty. Therefore, BPD is not really diagnosed until mid-adolescence (at least).

However, BPD would not be my first guess based on the description you have provided. However, someone who knows you well is probably in a better position to make that judgment.

Bipolar is diagnosed in children (prepubescent), and treated with medication, but only in very severe cases.

I have a 9-year-old niece who has been diagnosed and is being medicated after repeated suicide threats and a pretty convincing behavior history. My father (who is bipolar) recognized the symptoms in me when I was 4 years old, though I wasn't diagnosed and medicated for another twelve years. I noticed some very bipolar-esque behavioral patterns in my daughter when she was 7, and I have no doubt she will eventually be diagnosed.

The thing about mood-disorder diagnoses is that they don't usually happen until the symptoms become so egregious that they can no longer be ignored or passed off as personality traits or situational responses--and bipolar symptoms increase with age. However, the behavior pattern can usually be traced back for years prior to the eventual diagnosis.