just diagnosed.........

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well sort off, doc wants more sessions to be sure but close to the end of the session i began to open up more and more and he started noticing the aspie characteristics. so no official diagnosis yet but working on it.

i realize no one cared about me growing up but seriously im 25 how could this slip everyones attention

It happens more often than you'd think. If you're otherwise able and smart, people see you as just a nerd rather than someone with a "condition". Also, people may simply not know what to look for.

go nerds

I was diagnosed when I was 5, my parents never told me. I found out for myself when I was 19



goodluck with your research/discovery.

Well, let's see...Hans Asperger first described it in 1944...

I was born fifteen years later in 1959...but it wasn't until 45 years after that, in 2005 that somebody showed me an article on AS and another four years before a diagnosis, and then only because I specifically asked a Mental Health professional to evaluate me for it. So for me it slipped everyone's attention for just under 50 years..

It only entered the Diagnostic Manual in '94, to this day, only people in the Mental Health profession know what it is and they believe its so rare they usually will consider every other possibility in the book first.

Consider yourself lucky that it ever CAME to anyone's attention.

Welcome to WP.

I'm 35 so when I was going to school nobody looked out for kids who might have Asperger's. If they did, I feel sure I would have diagnosed. No, I was just the shy clumsy kid in the corner. I never failed any classes so my issues never came to anyone's attention.

Welcome to WrongPlanet.

This is one of the things that pains me most ... that no one noticed it or figured it out for so long. I feel like if this was diagnosed for me shortly after it was in the DSM, my life might be a lot different today. But, then again, maybe not.

but somehow if a girl is a nerd (i don't mean brilliant and sociable, i mean utterly scholarly) it is bound to be noticed. Nerdyism is more common in guys.

not necessarily ... in the gifted program, which I was in, most girls are on the nerd-y side.