ah wonderful memories of times past. Would have loved to have had a horse during my growing up years....didn't get mine until second half of my life....good at this point in my life....making all new life memories & forgetting the past.

I think mant of the DSM diagnoses have a spectrum level of their own similar to ASD. everyone in the world deals with depression, anxiety, etc....whether its dibilitating to the point of being DSM diagnosed is another story.....think this applies to ALMOST everything found in the DSM.

There are so many mis-diagnoses because there are similarities between symptoms of different MI's & co-morbid illnesses that actually seem like they almost go together.

I also think that many who claim to be affected by someone with a MI are probably doing what I did after leaving. I researched anything that sounded like it had possibility of describing the behaviors. Researching I would see some fit & other things didnt. Would hold onto that thought until I came up with something that seemed more accurate. It didn't mean that the behaviors didn't fit the previous description but also fit into the new one. I finally came across ASD & it was a perfect fit but could definitely see how the behaviors could have been a part of many other possibilities. He must have liked his Dx of adult ADD & his pdoc just telling there is something more wrong with him that he needed a neurologist to determine.....ASD/Asperger's was a new diagnosis at the time......but I was sure there was narcissism in his behavior also until in researching ASD, It became obvious where the foundation of the behavior was coming from

Dang look alikes are probably why it's so hard to determine a correct diagnosis.