My story is an echo of the times that were. What was focused on at the time, I "had". I was so strange I must have the "new" and strange thing.

At first they thought you could only have neurosis, psychosis and borderline. So then of course I "was" borderline.

I had different kinds of anxieties and they actually understood I did.

I also developed depression but it took them three years to believe me since I have aspergers and my depression doesn't look on the outside as an NT's depression.

When borderline was narrowed down and other PD's were more stressed they shifted me into other PD's, such as schizoid, schizotypal and paranoid. It sort of makes sense, schizoids are loners, I am. schizotypals think out of the box, I do, paranoids will not accept you as better than themselves, same there, my aspergers makes me feel we're all the "same".

But at the end it didn't hold up and I become PD NOS.

Then to Europe came this cool new thing, bipolar, it wasn't the same old manic depression that I didn't have, but maybe I had this, cuz it was new and cool. Maybe it could explain why I was in such different ways at times.

After a while I didn't "have" it anymore.

Fiiinally, I got diagnosed AS. It is the only diagnosis part from anxieties and depression where I have actually fitted. But sadly I became diagnosed for the same reason as before, it was the new cool thing in medicine.

I think the mistakes they do is, either they misdiagnose with something uncommon because they sense you are so weird that you must have that. Or they want to diagnose with something serious and common because they can squeeze you in there and it is a DX they are comfortable giving because they have before.

For the latter reason I had to fight the DX of schizo, because since I look away a lot they thought I was looking at where the voice "was". Also I have a typical aspie humor so when I laughed I laughed in the "wrong" places and they think that is something psychotic people does.