Anyone Diagnosed/Misdiagnosed with Aspergers?

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After I first started experiencing symptoms, I went to a mental hospital and they diagnosed me with Aspergers. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia a year later and schizo-affective disorder 3-4 years later. I’m 25 now. I thought I had Aspergers but I’m starting to realize that it’s just schizo-affective disorder. The sensitivity to light, sound, lack of social skills/confidence, finger twisting, obsessiveness, can all be caused our mental illness. I also heard schizophrenia and autism are polar opposites. So, has anyone been misdiagnosed like me? I thought I had it but now that I have more insight I just realize it’s the illness that has exacerbated my symptoms. Thanks.

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Don’t anyone define you and label you. Aspergers does not exist IMO.

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Even if you argue that it’s an artificial construct can you really argue that there are no effects from the symptoms that get called(or used to be called in DSM 5) aspergers?

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Asperger people are just wired different. It is called neurodiversity.

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Now if they’re retarded that is another issue. There are retarded neurotypicals too.

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And if you are schizo it can make you seem retarded, but you’re not!

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My shrink thought that I had a touch of Asperger’s. I think he mistook paranoid schizophrenia and strong yet subclinical psychopathic tendencies as Asperger’s. I am quite certain that I have the strong antisocial/psychopathic tendencies because I study psychology in addition to just being a patient. I am writing a thesis on a stigma intervention.

My ability to learn things as well as perform physically and academically points to possible autistic traits; when I sit down to do something, it is do or die, much like autism, and I actually do what I say I will do, that is my reputation, and at the core of that is something very cold and dark- I love challenges and live for them. I enjoy violence, I enjoy danger, yet when I sit down to write a paper, it looks like I have autism.

I also have a lack of a filter, say what is on my mind, and this makes my shrink think that I have autistic traits.

However I think he changed his mind.