Did Anyone Think They Had ASD But It Was Something Else

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Probably not very common given that echolalia, being a speech issue, is more of a classic autism trait than an Asperger's trait. I think the key is the reason the sentences keep repeating in your head. Do you have auditory issues that would make you overly focused on what people have said? Is there anxiety involved in remembering the words? Obsessiveness? If you feel helpless to stop thinking about something, that could be perseveration.

If your verbal ability is so poor that you tend to rely on repetition to express yourself, or your communication skills are so poor that you don't know how to respond except to repeat what has been said to you, I would consider that you probably have echolalia.

Of course, I'm no expert on echolalia, but the fact that you aren't repeating the sentences out loud suggests something else to me, unless you are simply restraining yourself from speaking out loud.

Diagnosed asd and tourettes officially though some doctors are in disagreement. Though also diagnosed with anxiety and depression with manic episodes, one doc suggests bipolar. Otherwise schizo-affective disorders where explored first being a person with vocal hallucinations.

Tourettes official but as one doctor wishes to explore myoclonic partial epilepsy, as the nature of the ticks are described that way. If there's an epileptic basis then it's possible autism is overruled. Otherwise being on the spectrum makes often a vast array of mental, neurological and same physical conditions much more probable and likely.

How can epilepsy rule out autism? Autism is a whole syndrome and epilepsy only includes a narrow range of symptoms (seizures?).

Tourettes could be overruled, I guess that if there's an epileptic basis, the autistic traits could be more likely another psychotic condition. Otherwise I wasn't known to have a childhood history of autism until towards the end of late puberty around 17-19 years of age.

I have had one therapist really agree with my ASD diagnosis. I had two psychs state either ASD or Schizoid PD.

I am starting to realized that I am either autistic with some sort of avoidant PD, or that I may be Schizoid or have Schizophrenia. A lot of therapists state there has to be some sort of PD in there, but.. I'm just not sure.

I have a friend in Cali that went for testing for ASD, came back with a diagnosis of DID. And she suggests I look into that and get tested.

For me it was actually the other way around. I was diagnosed with BPD for 5 years, despite not meeting the criteria and after a long process, looking at all my notes etc, my psych decided to assess me for ASD. I just recently found out that I am on the spectrum and that I officially do not meet the criteria for BPD so that diagnosis has been removed, which I'm delighted about as no one except my psych thought it fit me.

Currently they're trying to work out a separate diagnosis for my MH as I suffer severely with depression and at the moment they think I'm in the midst of a psychotic episode, but I disagree, they're just being ignorant to the danger the world is in.

I have ASD but I then found out I also had ADD which was causing so much trouble. I now at least can medicate that while medicines for autism specifically are still under development.

No, because I still have mild SPD, and PTSD. So, It's probably autism + PTSD, not the other way around. Unlikely to have. Also, dyspraxia. Also problems with GI tract. The only reason, I know it is ptsd is, emotional detachment..