Anybody Here Over 30?

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I am 50. I have only recently learned about Aspergers, but I think I definitely have it. I have always been labeled as weird and my parents always just explained it away as me being shy, but I knew it was more than that. I am still trying to get up enough nerve to go the the doctor and get a real diagnosis.

31 and received my AS diagnosis just last Friday after trying for over a year to see a specialist

BTW Reading this thread has kind of re-assured me that AS isn't just confined to teeangers and kids

Hi! I am new here...I am 33! However, I don't have AS..My ds who is 18 does though. It has been tough at times, sometimes I think as a parent I have made it worse for him (I am overly sensitive). Sometimes I think the rejection my son gets hurts me more than it does my son and my son knows it!

I'm 29. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. It has worked for me for 10 years now.

When I turned 30 I'd never heard of AS. I must say I am envious of who became aware of their condition at a much younger age than I did when they are less set in their ways.

It's good(?), to see some older folks out there who share the AS experience. I'm new to this site, and, to the computer, so it takes me awhile to find things.(I may not find my way back to this page?????) I'm wondering how, or if, anyone thinks AS has effected their spiritual outlook on life. I've come to think that much of what I thought was 'spiritually', was just being from a different planet.

10,000 years old, and I don't look a day over 20.

Way over 30 here - 56 and wondering if maybe I'm too old for this board. A diagnosis of autism or Aspergers was almost unkown in my childhood, so I spent most of my life just wondering why I was so weird and unable to fit in. Finally figured things out when I was in my 40's.

I was wondering, does any or all persons with AS and related such, really think of themselves as any certain age?? I find that I'm quite comfortable with any and all ages under ten. I do a lot of child care for friends and relitives, (as I don't usually have a 'job'), and love it. Only through my searching for other childhood develoment disorders, my friend has two daughters with speech problems, did I come across AS and realized I'm not really from another planet, as I'd always thought. But the point was/is, at 56, Istill feel very much like a child, ...or, may-be just 'ageless'. How 'bout it, any of you 40 and overs out there have any imput on this matter?

I am definitly over thirty years old on this Friday I will be 56 years old. I Read the forum posts in " getting to know each other" and I am glad that heer are other a significant number of other people who are not teenagers or children who use this web site even through for myself but maybe not for others it does not seem that long ago when I was young.
I definitly have Aspergers syndrom and I found out about this only around a year ago. In my case there are many aspects in my behavior and psycology which are typical for most people with Aspergers syndrom such as great difficulty in understanding social situations, extreme sensitivity to sound since I was very young child, inapropriate behavior in interpersonal realations with other people. There are also some things which seem to be more unusual such as that I have some very serious perception problems when I comes to dirt and cleanliness in which unless I have things pointed out to me such as having dirt on my clothes, uncombed hair, unwashed kithen counters or floors, toilets etc. I just am not aware of these things but I am slowly am after a lot of hard reminders and comments I am just begining to change. Also I can have very immature and childish behavior when I am under stress. Are there other people with Aspergers who have some of these perceptionj and behavior problems?
When I was a child very little was know about aspergers syndrom that is obviously why it has taken so long for me to find out about this. I would like to use the internet audio chat connections on your web site but , I would like to know what is the best way to do this given everything which I related about myself in the forum post.

I'm 38 now and i self-diagnosed in sept. 2004. I finally got official diagnostic in july 2005. I wish i knew it before my teen years, that's when things got really hard for me. But i intuitively knew "something was different" with me since i was 3, i remember it clearly.

I am 42, no official diagnosis yet, but I seem to have many, if not most of the AS traits. Officially diagnosed as having ADHD in 1996 too.

Hi, new here...I'm 32 & was diagnosed early last year, before that I was diagnosed with extreme social anxiety disorder (or SAD) for about 15 years, but after a time my doctor realized that there had to be more wrong with me than just SAD. I mean I knew people made me extremely anxious but even when I was around people that I was comfortable with I still didn't feel like socializing with them. I've always been that way since I was a child, I always felt different from others in almost every way....I enjoy being alone most of the time & even when I didn't mind interacting with others there comes a point where I have to get away from the socializing & be by myself. I therefor have never really had friends, I seem to be unable to keep any sort of relationship, & I'm fine with that, except for when normal people ask me about why I don't have friends which makes me just want to crawl under a rock...

Also I cannot work...I am currently disabled & live with my mom so I am able to support myself (for now)thanks to her dedication & support (& thanks God I have a supportive family)...I did work before for 5 years at a store & it was pure hell...after I lost that job I could not go thru the process of looking for one again. I have heard the horror stories of what work environments are like these days, I know that I could not survive that...garbage...

Yes... I have never matured into an "adult" everyone who meets me assumes Im much younger than I really am...many cant believe it when I tell them that I am 32...& I dont feel like an adult so I probably dont come off that way to people...

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I hope I'm posting this in the right spot. I'm 44. Still undiagnosed but I'm just about positive I have aspergers. I'm in a way glad my family never realized it when I was a child because they probably would have institutionalized me. They seemed to know something was wrong but they chose to ignore the problem or act like I was being that way on purpose. Sometimes I was punished. I have an uncle who I think has it too, and he was treated like he was ret*d and like a second class citizen. Today he is a very kind person but has been crippled by the way he was treated. I have scars from being a non-person as well. But I don't mean to turn this into a pity-me thing. I think I just wish I could reach out and say to anyone who might have gone through something like I did that it's never too late to try to get your life back and you are not alone.

Hi, I'm 32 AND A HALF and I just heard about this all less than a month ago. I'm not diagnosed, but I suppose I always knew something like this had to exist, to explain why I'm such a weirdo.

Since I was born September 1st, this New Year's I will turn exactly one-third century old! I'll have to try and organize some sort of party. Or at least get off work.