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diagnosed dysthymia in 97.... anxiety, and social anxiety.... dyscalcula, and some executive functioning problems-- those are for sure, and I am still discovering things about myself, as I get older and it occurs to me that other people don't think the way I do... and as I get tired of symptoms, one by one, and seek treatment, more things come to light.... I am an adoptee, so I have to discover myself from scratch, as there is no one to compare myself to {if that makes sense}... finding my birth mother has led to several discoveries.... physically, I take after birthfather, mentally I take after birth mother, and she had a number of issues, but as she was very reclusive, nobody is certain exactly what all she had.... but she definitly had a number of issues. sigh. Imagine all the aspie stuff... and then not knowing anything about all the aspie stuff that you have - ! ! ! I'm a real puzzle, but it does seem that I don't suffer as much as others, but the unknown makes everything so much harder. Closed adoptions are cruel.

Well I don't have an official diagnoses of AS...and not really any official diagnoses of anything else but other than that I suspect Major Depression, Anxiety and PTSD as I have the required symptoms for these disorders. But maybe there are some other issues or maybe I have some of it wrong........wont know till I can afford to talk to a psychiatrist or whatever.

I have classic autism, schizoaffective disorder bipolar type, severe generalized anxiety disorder and if I were to make up a couple of disorders I also got Old Age syndrome and generalized confusion disorder. The only reason I put the made up ones here is a couple of other people did. I think both of these should be added into the DSM V.

Sure, you people with a bit of problems with procrastination can make fun but true executive dysfunction is no laughing matter. I don't have it as extreme as some people but seriously lay off the jokes. It's the type of behaviour I would expect from NT's who didn't know sh*t about any form a neurological disorder.

Along with autism I have combined ADHD, PMDD + dysmenorrhea, Temporal lobe epilepsy, some complex partial and clonic tonic, mild agoraphobia and a history of selective mutism, social anxiety and learning disorders. And undiagnosed but certain I have had some form of Oppositional Defiance disorder or Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome (like autism but is more about control, avoidance and apathy - my whole childhood, really).

Well I wasn't making fun of it. I just said I have lazyass procrastination syndrome. No different than someone saying they have (insert their name here) syndrome because they know they have something but they don't know what it is or someone saying they have (insert their obsession here) addiction. I know I have a problem and need to work at it and since there is no label for it, I just made one up. I will not claim to have something I have never been diagnosed with because what if I was wrong? What if I really was just lazy and I need to try harder? I just need to have better willpower and then I will get over it? If I really am just lazy, then how am I making fun of ED then? You have basically just said I have ED then because you didn't like my humor and mentioned I was making fun of it along with the others.


And I have called myself ret*d in the past because I really thought I was. That was before I understood what AS was. I wasn't making fun of anyone with AS when I said I was.

other then ASD

severe anxiety, moderate Major depressive diroder, possible Bipolar type II, PTSD, possible Body Dysmorphic disorder.

Other than AS:

Paranoid schizophrenia and various health complaints (IBS, eyesight problems, von Willebrands disease and more)
Meares-Irlen syndrome

Diagnosed in the past (but I believe these have got much better now):
ADHD
Tourette's

And not officially diagnosed but strongly suspected by my mental health social worker:
Dyspraxia
OCD

Besides being diagnosed with PDD-NOS and Tourette's, I got signs of ADD and obsessive-compulsive disorder according to my psychiatrist, as well as a few symptoms personality disorders like bipolar disorder and borderline. I have dyplopia(double vision) and am near sighted. I have hypertension, and take lisinopril for that, plus I excercise alot. Not as worse as the other people here, but still annoying.

So far, I have only been diagnosed with AS. I feel like all my issues are covered by AS. I haven't gotten separate diagnoses of sensory integration disorder or auditory processing disorder, although I would probably be diagnosed with them if I was assessed for them.

I have a cyclical (1 year cycle, runs the same as SAD, but doesn't seem to _be_ SAD) Clinical Depression, as well as Asperger's. I'm 68, have known about the Depression all my adult life, but was only diagnosed with Asperger's at 65. It does seem, though, as if the Depression is an effect of the Asperger's, a sort of biochemical mental habit that I may not ever get rid off. Zoloft & Pamelor combination does work on it, though, mostly. I go off them in summer, when I've always been as "normal", Depression-wise as I've ever been.

Social phobia
Dyspraxia
ADD
Anxiety disorder

I haven't received the therapy time I really needed, so I can only go on my own research. The only thing I'm willing to claim on my own research besides aspergers is dysgraphia. I'd be willing to claim a bit of motor dysgraphia and bad spatial dysgraphia even more than my undiagnosed aspergers. Hell, I'd say my handwriting is responsible for more lost job opportunities than my aspergers easily. Anything that I fill out by hand makes me look like a kid. My handwriting is crazy irregular and, despite my incredible vision, my depth and spatial perception are pretty terrible, and it causes pain to write or do other repetitive hand activities over any extended period of time. It's not as bad in my left hand, but, cruel joke, my right is my dominant hand.

I also only have any smooth eye tracking from right to left, but I don't know what that's related to.