Monumentally Misdiagnosed

[ArgonianVoter]

I have literally never seen a thread anywhere for people misdiagnosed with a mental disorder, well here's your thread.
If you were misdiagnosed with a mental issue during the course of your life you can tell us about it here.
What did you go through?
Why did it happen? (if you know)
How old were you?
When did it happen?
Tell us all about it.
(wasn't sure if this would've been best in general or health and fitness, I chose general because i'm lazy)

 

[Cats]

I got misgnosed with Retardery when i came out. but I dont got that disease the doctor was Wrong

 

[A Very Big Fish]

They said I had a Donkey Brain, but I got a certificate proving that I don't have it no more.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

tism, however hard it is to believe.
being stuck in sped with tards at a critical point for social development fucked me up permanently. i did fine in normal classes, i was just a little shy.
the autism diagnosis boom of the late 2000s was god's mistake

 

[Grub]

I was misdiagnosed with a cavity once. The dentist fixed it by drilling a cavity into my tooth and filling it.

 

[Joe Swanson]

This isn't your personal blog nigger

 

[souschef]

I was a rebel teenager and some bitch psychiatrist pulled out of her ass that i had "manic depressive disorder" because i had problem following rules

Thank god i was rebel enough to refuse to take the medicine, those things can fuck you up

 

[Cats]

They said I had a Donkey Brain, but I got a certificate proving that I don't have it no more.

the teachers were mad that i was in Regular People classes so they used to make fun of me right in front of everybody saying that god put my brain in backwards. said the principal had an xray that proved it. sure enough one day i accidentally got irradiated through the wall at the hospital and it left a perfect image of my skeletal head on the polyester. backward brain

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Yeah, the doctors said I have short term memory loss but that's completely wrong I remember everything clearly.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Hi, I just saw this thread and this is my first time posting in it. I was misdiagnosed with short term memory loss but I disagree with that diagnosis.

 

[User names must be unique]

I was misdiagnosed as a junkie, made me wait for 3 hours just to have a doctor prod me and see me wince.

 

[dreamworks face]

When I was a child, I didn't cooperate with someone who was supposed to test my IQ, and they said my IQ was 60. I also had a stutter and speech deficits, so I spent a bunch of time in special ed. As my speech became better the teachers realized I wasn't retarded and my parents had me tested again. This time I made the mistake of trying on the test - suddenly my entire world was gifted this and gifted that, and I was spending my summer camps studying Math at college campuses and doing all these CTY programs and other bullshit. I discovered that tards have it much easier in school than gifted kids. Puberty hit and I suddenly became much more interested in looking at pictures of naked women than studying math in my free time.

 

[vomitusdeux]

I got misdiagnosed with aids but it turns out I just opened a reddit page.

 

[Moral Decay]

My therapist said I was hallucinating, but I know the Snail Man was real.

 

[Cats]

tism, however hard it is to believe.
being stuck in sped with tards at a critical point for social development fucked me up permanently. i did fine in normal classes, i was just a little shy.
the autism diagnosis boom of the late 2000s was god's mistake

I'm thinking about a classroom full of autistic mantises and you, the lone quiet @Neurotypical Mantis, sitting frightened in the middle.

Small but related sidebar: this image is one of the first results I got for "retarded praying mantis" on google images.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

I'm thinking about a classroom full of autistic mantises and you, the lone quiet @Neurotypical Mantis, sitting frightened in the middle.

Small but related sidebar: this image is one of the first results I got for "retarded praying mantis" on google images.

holy shit it's bingus
that really was me though. i kicked ass with every creative writing assignment my "sister" normal class gave me

 

[RamblingBackwash]

When I was in my 40s I got misdiagnosed as being bi-polar. The reason it happened is I didn't really understand what was being asked by the questions in the screening. For instance "Do you ever have periods where you go a long time with little sleep?" My brain well yeah lady I worked night shift forever and am usually working full-time plus full-time school plus family. So I answered "Yes I go through phases where 2 - 4 hours a night isn't unheard of." Question 2: "Have you made irresponsible financial decisions?" My brain well I really should have just gotten my old car fixed instead of buying then new one. So I answered "Yes I have definitely wasted thousands of dollars on shit that was dumb." There were a bunch of others. They put me on Depakote and labeled me bi-polar. I was telling people in my friend group/circle about this over the next couple weeks and they were like "Dude what the fuck are they talking about you aren't bi-polar have you met someone bi-polar?" As I thought about it I realized holy crap I'm not only not bi-polar but this is really going to fuck up some stuff in my life. So I called the Psychiatrist and told him hey I don't think this is right. He said of course it's right you are taking the meds and not having episodes see it's working. In the end I paid out of pocket for a 3 day long battery of testing and in the end they said. There is zero sign you are bi-polar. You have signs of ADHD and some generalized anxiety but that is it, and even that is stretching it.