When you suspected you had Aspergers. How sure were you??

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amaren, i feel just like you. i'm pretty darn sure i have it. i have a list a mile long of "aspie attributes" that i have.

but if you look at the straight DSM criteria, especially as i am now as an adult, i wonder if it will fit.


i guess i'll say i'm about 85% sure. or maybe i'm just a horrible person that just doesn't know it and i'm lazy. or i'm just clueless.

I'm 90-100% sure. So sure, I won't let anyone tell me otherwise, "professional" or not.

Like some of the others who posted, my certainty goes up and down. Sometimes it seems like everything fits, other times not so much.

To answer the question of when I first suspected, it was actually pretty low. I heard about Asperger's a couple years ago and saw some similarities, but pretty much dismissed it.

i'm not dianosed yet but i'm 80% sure i'm AS.

I was quite certain that I had autism as it's written in the DSM-IV-TR. I met most of it, barring tantrums, special skills, and mental retardation [as an adult], but those few weren't required.

I was right (win some, lose some, and all that).

90%

After reading about it on Wikipedia I was 80% sure but it increased to
100% after reading Tony Attwood's book.

80%-ish when I first heard of it. Then I got the diagnosis at age 14, and again at 23. So I'm 100% I'm on the Autistic spectrum somewhere... I've never had any professional tell me I don't have it, and several who've confirmed it.

I wasn't very sure as i was on da lower side of da spectrum at da time.

when my mom gave me a article on aspergers it had a list of "symptoms" it was pretty much like a long check list for me thats when I knew I had it.

Concerning missed:

It doesn't surprise me that people with AS were missed (in the past twenty years), and still are being missed; 50% of children now aren't diagnosed. Even autistic disorder without severe cognitive impairment is missed many times (those with relatively spared speech).

There's a number of circumstances that can fall into place that allows one with a relatively severe developmental disorder to adapt and make do with what they have in a society that they aren't tailored for.

I'm not formally diagnosed but, based on a description of Asperger's I read about ten years ago, I have a lot of the major indicators. I definitely fit the category of "unusual interests." I have probably been different from birth, but it didn't really become problematic until I began school. My grades were good, but I was not very social or athletic. I was very physically active, but not in team sports. I would say that I am about 90 percent sure I have AS, based on the major indicators.

I never suspected I had the syndrome, actually, I was never even told about my diagnosis by my mother until years later. I didn't know a thing about it so I looked into some books, and it seemed that I connected with a lot of the symptoms. At least my behavior and attitude has improved.

When I first heard of Asperger's a lot of it sounded like me but I didn't think I had it because I didn't believe I was autistic. Since finding this site and re-examining all the events in my life I'm 95% certain I am on the spectrum. It was the most sensible explanation of why I am the way I am. For the longest time I thought I was such a failure and I didn't want to be alive anymore. Things are better now, but its still tough some days.