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Bi Polar v's (or inc) Aspergers for women - Co Morbidities

MoonGalSenior Contributor03 Jan 2016, 1:18 pm AEDT

Bi Polar v's (or inc) Aspergers for women - Co Morbidities

Hi all - I have recently started researching Aspergers and girls/women. I am stnned to find myself identifying very strongly with the forms Aspergers shows in girls (my childhood was deifnately ticking all the boxes for being Aspie girl) and how it shows in adult women.

I have a rapid cycle, mixed state form of Bi Polar, was also diagnosed with OCD, PTSD and core anxiety co-morbidity in July 2014. I have tried to get a handle on my moods and triggers etc and can now fairly well 'observe' what state i am in, or changing to.

I wonder how do I go about being assessed for Aspergers? Wether this would help mt treatment options at all - and if anyone else here is diagnosed Aspergers or identifies strongly with Aspie traits?

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In response to: Bi Polar v's (or inc) Aspergers for women - Co Morbidities

Unknown userMember14 Oct 2020, 5:54 pm AEDT

Re: Bi Polar v's (or inc) Aspergers for women - Co Morbidities

@MoonGal I am a 60's girl, and totally get where you are coming from. But, we also have to understand that there wasn't the time, money or technology back then. People were just trying to survive and rebuild.

i have just found out I have a rare heart defect that I was born with. Being a home birth that wouldn't have been picked up back then. I have lived with it and survived. In my opinion I think that another diagnoses when most of us all have multiple ones isn't really going to change what we do in life or what sort of person we have now become. You are just beautifully you! Embrace your difference. But you have to do what makes you happy too.

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