ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Case Report: Mechanisms in Misdiagnosis of Autism as Borderline Personality Disorder.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- It is More Anxiousness than Role-playing: Social Camouflaging Conceptualization Among Adults on the Autism Spectrum Compared to Persons with Social Anxiety Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
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- Elevated Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Autistic Youth and Adults: A Multinational Study.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Rethinking psychometric testing in autism: overcoming the challenges of comorbidity and diagnostic overshadowing.CNS spectrums · 2025Review
- Borderline Personality as a Factor in Late, Missed, and Mis-Diagnosis in Autistic Girls and Women: A Conceptual Analysis.Autism in adulthood · 2024Article
- Perceived misdiagnosis of psychiatric conditions in autistic adults.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Differential Diagnosis of ICD-11 Personality Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Comorbidity and Overlaps between Autism Spectrum and Borderline Personality Disorder: State of the Art.Brain sciences · 2023Review
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- Mental health disorders, functioning and health-related quality of life among extensively hospitalized patients due to severe self-harm - results from the Extreme Challenges project.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Autistic individuals without intellectual disabilities are sometimes not diagnosed until adolescence/adulthood. Due to increased risk of co-occurring mental health problems, these individuals may initially be referred to general, mental health services and not always be identified as autistic; some may be misdiagnosed with personality disorder (PD) prior to identification of autism. To explore possible mechanisms in misdiagnosis of autism, we report on the case of a young man with severe, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and attention deficit disorder (ADD) who had been diagnosed with and treated for borderline PD prior to being diagnosed with autism. Following reassessment by mental health clinicians with experience of working with autistic individuals, the patient was diagnosed with autism, ADD, and depression-but not PD. Experiences from this case suggest that presence of co-occurring NSSI, depression, and ADD, as well as lack of comprehensive assessment and lack of autism knowledge in general mental health services, may contribute to risk that autism is misdiagnosed as PD. These findings highlight the need for autism expertise in general mental health services to facilitate appropriate diagnosis for autistic individuals who encounter these services, as well as the importance of undertaking comprehensive assessments.
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