Is it common for aspies to have comorbids?

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Yup! I've got OCD, possibly some tic disorder (probably transient tic disorder), and I have traits of ADHD. My OCD also makes me quite depressed sometimes, but I wouldn't consider it clinical depression because it's caused by the OCD and immediately goes away once I get reassurance.

I think that in some cases, co-morbid can be a bit of a misleading label. A lot of anxiety and depression people on the spectrum feel is a reaction to how they are treated, - bullying for example, exclusion, and stigmatisation - rather than strictly intrinsic conditions which directly stem from AS. Rather than society acknowledging the mistreatment of AS people, it is easier to label the consequences always as "co-morbid". I think we need to look more closely at other antecedents of the outcomes of depression and anxiety for people on the spectrum. It becomes all too easy to keep on blaming the victims in a blanket way with blanket assumptions, which researchers usually don't even question.