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Can autism be misdiagnosed for bipolar disorder?


Can autism be misdiagnosed for bipolar disorder?

The two diseases are totally different. This comes from a person who has lived with folks with each disease.
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It IS possible for a person to have both though. Source(s): www.webmd.com
no, those are two totally seperate diseaes
The symptoms and causes for both are radically different, so the answer is no.
A lot of people are miscatagorzied as the doctor just doesn't know but needs to tell the parents something.
that would be a stretch

i think autism, especially mild cases, can be completely overlooked; that is, UNdiagnosed rather than MISdiagnosed

but because it's manifested in so many different ways with so varying a group of symptoms, i suppose this could happen, and it could be disastrous
Anything can be misdiagnosed for anything.
Especially as there is no clear border between autism spectrum disorders, and no clear border between autism spectrum and other disorders. E.g. autism usually coincides with depression, and where you have depression you might have bipolar as well. Bipolar might be diagnosed but autism will be missed. etc.
Disclaimer: I'm not a professional in this area.

update: one could say more clearly that bipolar might be a symptom, and autism might be the cause. And the cause could go undiagnosed.
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