I’m male. At the age of 14 my parents became increasingly frustrated with my lack of social interaction with kids my age (I was homeschooled, with barely any kids my age I knew besides a church I hated and a homeschool co-op I hated more) I was taken to a psychiatrist and diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome/high functioning autism. Note that little to nothing was actually done by my parents about this diagnosis except them occasionally yelling at me to stop playing playing video games and socialize. I was a teenage boy, whatever.

Fast forward a decade, I’m now 25 and show little to none of the clinical indicators, yet I have raging BPD symptoms. I just wanted to know how common this is; I also spent my teenage years highly angry and resentful of my autism diagnosis and actively tried to not act like I had it. 