I am looking for anyone who has any information relating to or was misdiagnosed prior to receiving a diagnosis on the autism spectrum. I am a fifty year old man who is confident that I have Asperger's Syndrome. Since the autism spectrum wasn't discussed much when I was a child, I believe that it was simply not recognized.

Normally, I would be unconcerned. I've figured out a way to live in the world and get by within acceptable parameters. However, I am currently seeing a therapist and psychiatrist and have been referred for a full psychiatrist battery of tests (minus a diagnostic test for autism) for diagnostic confirmation of the psychiatrists pet theories about me. He's wrong.

I would like to make a pitch to the psychologist who will be administering the psych test to include a test for autism. If I can draw a parallel between the diagnosis's that my psychiatrist is considering, and other autistics past misdiagnosis's, I feel I might have a convincing argument.