Asperger's and DID

Just taking a look around I'm seeing so many people here mentioning Asperger's syndrome... I don't know if I only didn't notice it the first time around because back then I wasn't diagnosed with AS yet, or if it's because the number of forum members diagnosed with AS actualy increased during this time. So it got me really curious about the relationship between AS and DID (at least from the point of view of those who post here).

How many of you all have been diagnosed with (or suspected to have) AS? For those of you who have, do you think your diagnosis makes sense? Or do you feel like you were only diagnosed with AS because they misinterpreted signs of your dissociative condition? For those of you who haven't been diagnosed with AS or other form of autism, do you believe that there seems to be some confusion among therapists, between identity dissociation and forms of autism?

I know that at least in theory there really is room for confusion, and I know that there's also room for autism being a risk factor for other conditions (which I believe is my case). But I wonder if that's really something that therapists will often confuse in practice while still being sure that they got it right. (I know my own psychologists and psychiatrists got so many things wrong, but none of them knew much about Asperger's or dissociative disorders, so I don't know if I can really think of them as "typical".)

I haven't heard about misdiagnosis of ASD that should be DID, but the relationship of ASD and DID and thoughts on this can be found here for instance. Mostly it's about it being easier to get DID due to the overwhelm of living with ASD. Not that is causes DID, but that it can exacerbate trauma in a way that it might create DID in others who without ASD might not have gotten DID/DDNOS-1.

lifelongthing wrote:Not that is causes DID, but that it can exacerbate trauma in a way that it might create DID in others who without ASD might not have gotten DID/DDNOS-1.

Sorry for my ignorance on this, but what is DDNOS-1, btw?

Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified - 1. It's basically "a lesser form of DID" without time loss and without as clear cut alters.

lifelongthing wrote:Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified - 1. It's basically "a lesser form of DID" without time loss and without as clear cut alters.

Oh, okay. So that's the name for what I apparently have. (Which my former therapist interpreted as a "lesser form of schizophrenia" instead... )

Thanks. (And thanks for the link above.)

I was told at a young age I had Asperger's. Though not as strong as others it made me quiet and very introvertive. It was weird, I had more of a tendency to lie and never share my true feelings than tell the truth. Bonus was, I was super good in school.

Aiden might have it? He's more of a schizoid though.

Our father does, and we take on after him (i.e. the hypersensitive stress response, but not the inability to recognize social cues/facial expressions/body language/etc). I am sure it's why we ended up with (C-)PTSD (not everybody does). It's hard to know why we split though.. Nature vs Nurture... Definitely a mix of both...

We have it, and all of us do have some symptomes of it. some more than others