How old were you when you were diagnosed?

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I was 16 when I was diagnosed.

AS, 5 years ago at 31 years of age.

Nearly two years ago...Im 42. It was shortly after my daughter's diagnosis of Autism at about 2 1/2 years old. My 7 year old was evaluated and diagnosed the November before last with Asperger's. After interviewing my husband with my son the Psychologist interview me with my son. She called my husband back in alone and told him that she believed my son had Asperger's and had no doubt that I did, but this was after my formal diagnosis.

I was seventeen when I was diagnosed with AS.

I was diagnosed with AS this summer, when I was 38 years old.

But I have been self-diagnosed for about six years when I finaly got my diagnosis from a psychologist.

I was diagnosed with autism at age 3. No one told me anything about it though. I could understand not telling me at age 3 or some low age, but there's a certain point that they crossed. I didn't find out until age 13, when everyone was out of the house and I was snooping through the family files. After reading through them, I had to look up what autism was.

I accepted my diagnosis pretty quickly myself, but I never forgave my parents for never telling me. To me, it's more disrespectful to not trust me with information than it is to suddenly put difficult information on me, because the latter can eventually be accepted.

I was 11, but at that time I was totally oblivious and did not think to ask why I was being tested. My mom didn't tell me about my diagnosis until I was 20.

PS Sorry, but from that picture I don't think your daughter is a savant. She may be very talented but that's not the same thing. Savantism in art would be more like being predisposed to draw very realistically because the person sees like a camera would see, without the human tendancy to stylize and make objects into symbols. It has to do with seeing but not fully comprehending the world around you. This is a drawing by a very young girl who lost her abilities once she began to understand the world as other humans do: http://clicks.robertgenn.com/images/fea ... rawing.jpg
Sorry, but I just wanted to say that because I am an artist too and I would not liked to have had people telling me I was a savant and thinking I was so special because of it and then find out I wasn't. Because I'm sure she is special anyway and she should feel good about her real talents instead of about something she doesn't really have.

I was diagnosed at 15.

I was 6 and in kindergarten.

I was diagnosed when I was 17.

I was diagnosed at the age of 15.

My Asperger diagnosis was confirmed when I was seven. My biological mother was ret*d or severly low functning autistic so my parents always suspected I might have "something". I was told about AS but it didn't bother me. I was like, "Okay, I got Asperger's, so now what?" That was back in 94 and AS was so new there wasn't much information on it so most of my teachers treated me like s**t anyway.

I was 13 when they suspected. I'd been sent to a psychologist over issues of depression as a result of longterm bullying and then something I said made her say she wanted to assess me for something. I think it was to do with my sheer dislike of people and socialising, but I'm not sure. I asked what I was being assessed for and they wouldn't tell me in case I looked it up.

So I got diagnosed when I was either 14 or 15.

My psychologist said I seemed much happier after being diagnosed as it excused some issues I had and why I was different.

I denied it for a while. I'm a writer (though not a conventional one), and I'd recently read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and found it difficult to reconcile the character with me. Which I do anyway, but it was the writing style, I think. But I accepted it and got support and am glad I did.

I was 10 when I was diagnosed.