03-18-2007, 11:03 AM
If you want to read something about personality types/disorders, go here: http://www.ptypes.com/
In a suspected case of adult Asperger's Syndrome, how do you draw a line between a list of dysfunctional traits seen in personality disorders (for many of us, either general anxiety or social anxiety, preference for solitude; in some cases social isolation and mild paranoid thinking, etc.) and the actual ASD (autistic spectrum disorder)?
I can say that I am definitely not Schizoid Personality Disorder.. I have no doubt, despite my need for solitude. I come much closer to Schizotypal Personality Disorder, but I also have a lot of similarities to Borderline and Compensatory Narcissistic. I appear to be a combination of all three, but then since my social anxiety is so pervasive, I could also be Avoidant Personality Disorder (but then how many of us suspected/DXed Aspies on here don't have avoidance issues?)
So my point is, where do you draw the line?
I know you look at development issues, esp. social development, but that's not as easy as I once thought. I believe I did have a serious comprehension problem (and I still do have minor social comprehension problems at 25), but how can I remember precisely what the issue was... back then?
In a suspected case of adult Asperger's Syndrome, how do you draw a line between a list of dysfunctional traits seen in personality disorders (for many of us, either general anxiety or social anxiety, preference for solitude; in some cases social isolation and mild paranoid thinking, etc.) and the actual ASD (autistic spectrum disorder)?
I can say that I am definitely not Schizoid Personality Disorder.. I have no doubt, despite my need for solitude. I come much closer to Schizotypal Personality Disorder, but I also have a lot of similarities to Borderline and Compensatory Narcissistic. I appear to be a combination of all three, but then since my social anxiety is so pervasive, I could also be Avoidant Personality Disorder (but then how many of us suspected/DXed Aspies on here don't have avoidance issues?)
So my point is, where do you draw the line?
I know you look at development issues, esp. social development, but that's not as easy as I once thought. I believe I did have a serious comprehension problem (and I still do have minor social comprehension problems at 25), but how can I remember precisely what the issue was... back then?
