Adults are harder to diagnose?

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I have a strange sense of humor...

Indeed, I cannot detect humor in the middle of a serious conversation or stuff like that, in those cases I am like the stereotypical person...

But if I know that it was supposed to be humor, I can usually understand it (not always).

But where I really shine is cracking jokes at women (for some reason men find my jokes deeply boring or idiotic... but women laughs until they lack breath, and still I am extremely shy near women...)

I love doing simple and stupid jokes and see people laughing their heads off... My father do it too (we do mostly stupid puns... But people laugh anyway Example: Here there are a... I forgot the english word, the stuff made to absorb the blood from women... and it is named "Always Clear". I am my father were waiting the elevator in a shopping mall that had much less elevators than needed, I told my father that they needed more elevators to absorb the flow, and my father awnsered that it was because the elevators were not always clear. Altough it took me some time to understand, I found it really funny )

I personally didn't have a problem getting a diagnosis (age 20/21) in adult services. But then again I was functioning pretty poorly. I didn't get any of the "you can speak so you aren't autistic" stupidity.

However, it may make a difference if you've been treated for something else already. Autism/AS was my first mental diagnosis, so there wasn't any prejudice from previous labels.

I hav eheard that some adults, who function relatively well in life, have trouble getting diagnosed because they can pass.

i had no trouble with my doctor, and was unaware of the difficulties of getting an adult diagnosed. but my doctor had some previous exp with AS, so i guess that was lucky. but i have never functioned that well in "typical society". i always stayed on the outside. what friends i did have through my life were other artists and weirdos. mostly people that do about as poorly as myself when it comes to cultivating a friendship garden. i was always the weirdo, but even when i hated all of them for excluding me and making me lonely i never found a way to play NT. i don't think i have ever personally had the desire to betray myself that way.

i will say that diagnosis has helped me personally. i am still the weirdo, but i have a name for it. and i don't mind telling people about it. i just wait for one of the "you're kinda' weird" comments and just take the opening. it is quite easy after the first dozen or so. i get lots of practice doing tattoos for a living. but diagnosis in general has really relaxed me. i don't feel bad for being obsessed with my art and writing and love of pondering anymore. i know these are actually the more positive parts.

yes the social stuff sucks, and i can't tell you how to get a girlfriend. i would say just be yourself. it is really all you have.

but take the test (my score was 176AS/35NT), go to a good doctor if you can. and i really like the idea about the psych grad students. do whatever you feel like you need to do. but just always be you, make your work shine, and the s**t will take care of itself.

Without derailing the intent of this thread I need to say that I am having a very difficult time reconciling the aforementioned statements with my personal experiences in the phychological fields. I live in a remarkably conservative and (dare I say) redneck city of just under 1 million...My head doctor told me I was one of 4 adults she had diagnosed- ever.

If those are actual quotes from assumed reasoned medical prefessionals, what- if anything- did you do about it?

Depends.

In the borderline cases, yeah. But for the majority who're run-of-the-mill in severity, it's easier to diagnose an adult (as the behaviour is just as, or even more so abnormal compared to peers).

I imagine that it'd be easier to diagnose an adult with Asperger coz they have a longer history to make notes and create correlations from.

The only thing that's preventing me from seeking an official diagnosis for now is the cost. I can't find anybody who could diagnose me for < $400