I wish this were a happy hello...

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But it's a confused, sad, angry, mixed-up one. I'm eighteen, diagnosed when I was seventeen (a few months ago) with pdd-nos, and I don't know how I should feel...anyone out there diagnosed late too?...

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

Welcome to WP!

There are a few of us in the same boat. I wasn't dx'd until I was 20.

Late? Try 49 for 'diagnosed late'

Welcome aboard, kid! You'll find a whole lot of folks here who were kicked around for decades without knowing why. Not that knowing changes anything, but at least it makes more sense when you have a context for it.

Welcome to WP. You will find many here diagnosed as adults. I personally was told by a friend about 3 years ago, didn't really process that info until my (then) girlfriend asked me what was wrong with me (and named some of my more autistic traits), about a year and a half ago, and was professionally diagnosed about a year ago, when i was having some recurring, depressing thoughts about a year ago.

Welcome to WrongPlanet! I wasn't diagnosed late, but I only found out about my diagnosis about a year ago as my parents never discussed it with me. It helped me a lot to be able to learn about AS and to read about other aspies experiences here on WP.

To WrongPlanet!! !

Just click on my blog button to read what I had gone through growing up.

Yep, I was diagnosed in December 2008 (when I was 18 and 10 months). You should feel glad that you finally know about your diagnosis!

Hello justapieceofmyself, welcome,

I'm 34 and got diagnosed with Asperger's only recently.

Enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

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IMO you are doing very well to have had a gf, many of us cannot rate even "the gf experience." as for the "recurring, depressing thoughts" one eventually learns [i am an old man and didn't finally "get it" until just a few years ago] to just push such thoughts aside. if you are a regular [not superhuman or gifted] human being, AS or not, your brain can only hold one thought at a time- when you believe you are multitasking or thinking multiple thoughts, said thoughts really are being processed sequentially at high speed, so they only seem simultaneous. because of this, one can learn to pick-out a particular thought, concentrate on its qualities and decide to delete it. sure, it will pop-up again and again, but just delete it each time, it will get weaker with each deletion until it disappears.
please consider that there are far worse things that can beset one, than AS or spectrum disorders. there are many professionally successful folk with AS or AS traits [i won't mention any names but one is a very wealthy philanthropist of late] and one is an actor you have seen "before" [hint, hint].

I am 24 and was diagnosed with AS just few weeks ago. I can relate to your feelings, I have felt confused, angry or depressed all my life. But getting the diagnosis was a relief for me, because I finally understood why I could never relate to people and why I was acting so strange. I hope your diagnosis will help you understand your life a bit better (as it helped me).

24 and diagnosed a week ago.

welcome to wp!

Aw, this is a hard time in your life. 18 is on the border of when you start trying on an adult life and now you need to figure out what being a little bit autistic will mean. It is a process. There will be no magic, instant answer. Welcome to a place where you can relax.

Problem is, I don't want to delete the memory of one of the few friends I ever had.

Hello and welcome to the WrongPlanet-forums!