At what age were you diagnosed with AS?

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I was 27. I'd read a book on women with ADHD and it was like someone had written a book just about me. I found an adult ADHD specialist in my area who also diagnosed me with aspergers. She told me that girls are better at hiding their differences and mimicking others than males which is why they go unnoticed for longer.

Also I think my parents are both aspies so my mannerisms didn't seem odd to them and it never occurred to them that there could be something wrong with me. This was good in a way because I grew up feeling accepted, even though I knew I was different to most people.

My dad and a lot of people in his family are Aspies. My mom has ADHD and dyslexia. My grandmother and aunt on my dad's side seem to have a bit of Asperger's. My female cousin on my dad's side is diagnosed with autism. My dad has a female cousin with severe autism. There seems to be a lot of female Aspies in my family.

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22 (last fall). My psychologist also told me that it´s quite common that girls are diagnosed later than boys because they tend to mask their symptoms better, don´t show their emotions as openly and that they are generally better at learning social skills.

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I was diagnosed when I was 2 years old, so I was still very young when that happened.

I wonder how many of us older adults (say over 30) were first diagnosed with other things and what they were. I am 38.

As a young adult I was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder, and then later ADHD . I did not consider that what I am is actually Aspergers until my son was diagnosed AS and his psychologist suggested that I am. Now it is obvious to me, but the psychiatrist that dx'd my ADHD, knowing my anxiety went back to early childhood and that I'd been bullied throughout childhood by peers, never put the puzzle pieces together.

Female-diagnosed in 2004, just before I turned 31.

And yes, I was given plenty of wrong DXs before then:
OCD, depression, anxiety, schizoaffective disorder, etc.

None of those explained much of what was really going on with me like the Asperger label did.
They were mostly useless & inaccurate labels, but they bought me time until one shrink finally recognized the correct dx.

20, after I began speed-dating for laughs.

Self-diagnosed at 19, officially diagnosed at 22. Very liberating to know for certain, but I think I'm still very much trying to accept it.

female, 40...and that was only after my son was diagnosed and i asked to be evaluated, as i recognized the same symptoms in myself.

before that, i'd had a lifetime of severe social anxiety disorder, of which no one ever knew about, and was labeled as "bullheaded" by my parents, "a gifted, daydreaming slacker" by almost every teacher i ever had, and "a hopelessly disorganized genius" by my boss of eleven years.

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July 2012, a month before I turned 25 (female).

Female - Self diagnosed at 16.

I haven't gotten a formal diagnosis because that can be a long and daunting process.