Anybody Here Over 30?

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I'm new to the site and glad to see there are other >30's here. I'm recently diagnosed and still adjusting. I like having the AS category because it does help organize all of the ways I've felt different from others. But I guess it also makes me wonder/worry about natural limits to being social, connecting with people, etc...

When I read about all that is known now about AS, how much more opportunity there is now for early diagnosis and intervetion, ...well it makes me wonder how much easier things might have been had I had the chance at getting help early.

Woohoo!! Anything planned for the big day?

Well, it's on a Sunday. So, my kid will be sleeping late, I'll muck around on the computer for a bit, then probably do the laundry over at the laundromat. And then spend the day dodging people who will try to give me black armbands, "over the hill" gifts, and a razzing.

Hah, I can still move faster than they can. They'll never think to check for me at the Fluff-n-Fold....

I turned 32 in November 2005, I turn 33 on November 2nd 2006, before Nov. 2005, I was 31.

Ah, it's not that bad, the wife, aka "She Who Must Be Obeyed" bought me a bumper sticker that says "So I'm over the hill! What do I win?" The a few "Old Fart" and "somber" over 50 decorations and ribbons. It could have been worse! Then again, she has more gray hairs than I do! heehee! And she's seven years younger!

Peace

You're only two weeks older than me, then.
I was diagnosed in September last year, just a couple of months before I turned 32.

Well, they will now.

Edit key dear, edit key. Now.

Heheheh. But they don't know I'm here, either, so....

I am 52 and fit

I am a newbie here. I will turn 37 in September 2006.

I'm 41 and haven't posted here much...mainly because I feel as old as dust when I read here

Undiagnosed AS or HFA or something not otherwise specified.

I am 39. I thought it was a mostly a younger crowd here too. Glad you decided to ask.

33

I'm fifty-nine years old and have know that I was 'different' since I was a toddler.

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There have been lots of problems, not how life should have been, culminating in my trying to tough out major workplace abuse directly to do with AS stuff, which left me ill, and that was nearly two years ago. Bit by bit I recover.
The workplace is toxic for us and in my view getting worse.

I'm 31 diagnosed in December 2003. I think in the US I would diagnosed Non Verbal Learning Disability? But Tony Attwood and Michelle Garnett here have come up with two further descriptions depending on the way people learn - visualiser and verbaliser, I'm an Asperger Verbaliser. It depends on whether your Verbal or Performance IQ is higher than the other one.

Previous diagnosis's include - as a child being "very left handed", at the age of 18 having severe PMS, 23 - slight learning difficulty as IQ scores with average range, Anxiety and Depression in my 20's, and finally Asperger's at the age of 29.

In some ways not having a diagnosis earlier (compared to kids today) meant that I pushed myself harder, but people expect more of me. I find it frustrating that I have had many jobs, but interesting at the same time; however I'm not entitled to very much government assistance - which is frustrating.

Also my current Psychiatrist has said I have a "treatable depression" and is not acknowledging my other difficulties.