The diagnosis item on your profile

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In the field Diagnosis, you have only six items to choose from: diagnosed Asperger's, undiagnosed Asperger's, not sure whether you have Asperger's or not, family member with Asperger's, other autistic spectrum disorder, and neurotypical.

This excludes the bipolar, Tourette's, schizophrenic, obsessive-compulsive, ADD, borderline, social anxiety disorder, and other people here. What are all of us supposed to check off?

I checked off "not sure whether I have it or not" when I filled out the form. Most accurately, I can say I believe I was misdiagnosed with Asperger's. But what I really identify with is logaesthesia (OCD meets lexical-gustatory synaesthesia).

How about an option for people with OTHER eisabilities?

i've always supported doing away with the list entirely and giving users a blank field to fill in with whatever they like.

Since this site was always mainly set-up specifically for people on the autism spectrum rather than a general mental health forum, it doesn't include other disorders that have little to do with autism. My advice would be to just check off neurotypical if you're not on the spectrum. You may not consider yourself neurotypical due to having another mental disorder and therefore part of the neurodiverse community but the the original intended meaning of the word, which was still the way it was used when this site started, was non-autistic, it has since expanded. Otherwise the solution would be to just change the neurotypical option to "allistic" but many people still use "neurotypical" to refer to people who are non-autistic rather that non-neurodiverse.

I really don't mean to hijack this thread but should I put "other autistic spectrum disorder" in my profile or leave as is? I fear if I change it people my think I am dishonest but the truth is I have been diagnosed with everything. My medical history and records are a mess! I was originally diagnosed with PDD-NOS, than aspergers and now my medical records just says autism spectrum disorder.

you know better than anyone else what fits best. maybe choose one that its the most recent diagnosis? just a thought.

I updated it and also my date of birth was wrong for some reason so I fixed that, thanks.

I don't know what fits best to be honest, I wouldn't say I am highly functioning as my autism has limited me in several ways but I am not quite low functioning either, I think I am in middle. Problem is I don't know what problems belong to what diagnosis, the medical community has failed me and has labeled me everything cause they don't understand me.

I have officially over the years have/had:

PDD-NOS
Aspergers
Autism
Bi-polar
schizophrenia
PTSD
Depression
Generalized anxiety disorder
Borderline personality disorder

and probably a few others, I relate the most to Autism but its hard to pin out how severe, I don't know if this doctor is an idiot but I had a doctor do a cat scan of my brain and said I should be a lot worse off than I am so I don't know. I try not to think about it much, labels are labels and lame.

Letting people put in what they want is the best as many have co-morbids or were given a non official label such as "mild Autism" but at least all options should exist for all current DSM and ICD diagnostic labels, undiagnosed, self diagnosed, seeking diagnoses, and not Autistic. Why not autistic? Not all people know what neurotypical is. For those that still do not know, all of you who were diagnosed under the DSM IV as Aspergers Disorder, Autism Disorder, PDD-NOS had your diagnostic label changed to Autism Spectrum Disorder under the DSM 5.

Since: (1) This website was originally set up to focus mainly on Autism Spectrum Disorders, and (2) the disabilities you listed are not ASDs, then (3) there is apparently no need for them to be listed in our profiles.

How about entering your particular disorder into your signature line? That seems to work for a lot of WP members.

That will become a good workaround again when the signature line displays on more then an occasional basis.

But the only non-ASD-related option you have to choose from is "neurotypical", and people whose only disorder is, say, ADHD are neither ASD nor neurotypical, so they don't have any choice of giving an accurate answer.

I guess this ties in with what Jono wrote about the changing meaning of "neurotypical". I wasn't aware before reading Jono's post that "neurotypical" used to mean "allistic". But now it only means people who aren't neurodivergent.

Don't sweat the details, just write up a short explanation and put it in your sig line, something like "My profile say that I'm X, but I'm actually Y".

My sig line explains my biggest obstacle to effective communication, and it displays with every post, for example.

I would select NT and then put your other conditions in your signature so people here will know you are not truly NT. Or how about you don't fill in that field and just skip to putting in your conditions in your signature.

When I filled out the form, diagnosis was a required field.