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Medical comorbidities in people with ASD

Formally diagnosed with chronic clinical depression, OCD and social anxiety. I have two stims (swaying back and forth and pacing). I have hay fever, and some extreme sensitivities to sunlight, abrupt high and low frequency sounds, taste and especially smell. "Morbidly allergic" to cigarette smoke in particular.

This time of year is always difficult for me given where I live (desert) with allergies...before one even considers symptoms of the coronavirus.
 
Judge said:
Formally diagnosed with chronic clinical depression, OCD and social anxiety. I have two stims (swaying back and forth and pacing). I have hay fever, and some extreme sensitivities to sunlight, abrupt high and low frequency sounds, taste and especially smell.

This time of year is always difficult for me given where I live (desert) with allergies...before one even considers symptoms of the coronavirus.
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Hayfever here, too, though a lot of my symptoms were actually side effects from the antihistamines I was taking to manage it. As a result I'm not really sure where I stand on that until I get all of the antihistamines thoroughly cleared from my body AND experience the full dearth of allergy season experiences.

I also sway back and forth - I always have. Never knew it was "a stim" until recently. I do know that if I try to stand still, I feel like I'm going to fall over.
 
SDRSpark said:
Hayfever here, too, though a lot of my symptoms were actually side effects from the antihistamines I was taking to manage it. As a result I'm not really sure where I stand on that until I get all of the antihistamines thoroughly cleared from my body AND experience the full dearth of allergy season experiences.
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It's why I reduce my doses of Loratidine to usually little more than 2.5 mg. Always a royal pain to split a 10mg pill four ways. Higher doses than that can be problematic for me. Where the cure becomes worse than the disease.

SDRSpark said:
I also sway back and forth - I always have. Never knew it was "a stim" until recently. I do know that if I try to stand still, I feel like I'm going to fall over.
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My pacing as a child was how I was given the nickname "Judge". A friend of my father used to laugh at seeing this kid walk back and forth, with a very sober look on his five-year old face. "Sober as a judge." :p

When I do pace, to this very day I tend to be very deep into thought or worry about something. :oops:

And if I stand in front of my tv set for more than a second or two, I inevitably begin to gently sway back and forth, often not even being aware when it happens.
 
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Me:

CPTSD (no official diagnosis, but Stevie Wonder could see this one!)

Diagnosed:

OCD (but I really doubt this diagnosis. I think this is wrong - I don't fit most of the criteria, and I suspect my psychologist stretched a few criteria so I would fit. Most of what got me the OCD diagnosis is better explained by...wait for it...autism.)

GAD (I don't think I have this anymore. I used to fit the criteria, but to be honest, I didn't need to be on meds, or do cognitive behavioral therapy or anything like that...I needed to understand that my anxiety was directly related to bad relationships and get rid of said relationships. Once I realized that, most of my anxiety sources were gone.)

At one point diagnosed, to the surprise and possibly horror of psychologists I worked with a few years later, who emphatically told me that there was no way:

Borderline personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Delusions

As an aside, I never got a formal autism diagnosis. The neuropsychologist that diagnosed me with OCD told me "you have traits of Asberger's but you're too high functioning for a diagnosis". To be honest, if I had understood the things I understand now, I would have answered the evaluation questions a lot differently (I didn't understand sensory issues, for example, and thought I was having anxiety attacks when I was actually having sensory meltdowns. It took learning about SPD by accident when I went down an internet rabbit hole one night to finally understand that I had sensory issues all along. I also took some of the questions too literally - I was asked, for example, if the tag in my shirt bothered me; since my shirt didn't HAVE a tag, I said no.)
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That is sad. I have heard lots of women get things like Borderline when they exhibit the exact same symptoms of men. Same with histrionic. Men throw things and it is rage. Women do and they are manipulating.

A lot is the therapist guessing motive. Guessing motive is a social construct. Women are hysterical and manipulative. Therefore they can't have autism which is inward motive.

madness
 
menander said:
That is sad. I have heard lots of women get things like Borderline when they exhibit the exact same symptoms of men. Same with histrionic. Men throw things and it is rage. Women do and they are manipulating.

A lot is the therapist guessing motive. Guessing motive is a social construct. Women are hysterical and manipulative. Therefore they can't have autism which is inward motive.

madness
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I never thought about it that way, but you could be right. The same therapist counseling center that diagnosed me with multiple personality disorders also told me "you aren't autistic because you have a job".

I always think about this when people want to exclude self-identified autistics from the community. If professionals can be that wrong...as commonly as they are when it comes to getting a diagnosis as an adult, and especially an adult woman, then why on earth would we give them so much credit? I can't wrap my head around it. In my case, anyway, I have been so plainly autistic throughout my lifetime that I am practically a stereotype. Nothing else explains almost every struggle I've had throughout my life so easily and completely. The fact that professionals don't see it says more about them than it does me. I suspect a lot of adults on the spectrum feel the same way.
 
Auditory processing disorder
Anxiety
Empathy
Sleep problems
Bad coordination
Others that I've heard before that's going on with me: IBS and not very noticeable amblyopia.

Nothing diagnosed, including autism. Female with essential oil mom, if that's a good way of summing it up *cries*
But actually- I've been enough of a bother lately and NOW she wants me diagnosed but.... maybe I don't want to get diagnosed now xD I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet.
 
Chronic asthma my whole life. Living with it is a daily challenge, especially so because I am very physically active and enjoy being outdoors a lot.
 
Of this list

Comorbidities
  • Severe ADHD
  • Severe Anxiety
  • Tics/ stimming
  • SEVERE Sleep problems
  • Incoordination
+ a gazilion other diagnosis not mentined on this list also well known Co morbid diagnosis to my MBD & ASD 3 and Severe ADHD.
 
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