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Awiddershinlife
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15 Oct 2010, 11:28 pm

poopylungstuffing wrote:

I was placed back in the 3rd grade due to "emotional immaturity" after being chosen for gifted classes at my previous school....

I had to do 3rd grade twice too. When my mom told me she said the teacher had told her that maybe I would have done better if she hadn't yelled at me so much.

I remember being confused b/c I had no idea that she was yelling at me. I was so busy hunkered down tuning everything, I guess I missed it.

What are your gifted areas, poopylungstuffing?

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16 Oct 2010, 1:26 am

I've never been diagnosed but I started suspecting over a year ago. I always knew I was not normal but I never knew what Asperger's was.

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16 Oct 2010, 2:55 am

I was 16

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16 Oct 2010, 3:03 am

I got my first diagnosis at 18 1/2. I got a diagnosis by an AS specialist at 19. I believe that, if I grew up in today's world, I would have been diagnosed in preschool. But AS wasn't known about when I was a kid, so my blatant AS behaviors were mistaken as being "giftedness."
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16 Oct 2010, 8:21 am

34.

rmctagg09
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16 Oct 2010, 8:48 am

I was 15.

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16 Oct 2010, 8:53 am

I was only about 3 when my mum suspected me of having Asperger's, but it took a few years to finally get an official diagnosis.

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16 Oct 2010, 10:29 am

I was probably about 9 when my mother had me checked out, but Asperger's did not exist, so I slippded through the system. self diagnosed to wherever I am at about 66. At this point, why worry about the official paper? I yam what I yam.

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16 Oct 2010, 11:10 am

I self-diagnosed when I was age 54.

Wraythen
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16 Oct 2010, 11:55 am

I'm told it was at about age 7. I became aware of the diagnosis a number of years ago.

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16 Oct 2010, 1:38 pm

I was 27

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16 Oct 2010, 3:01 pm

I was diagnosed with it when I was two. My mother had to go up to Denver to find anybody that could diagnose autism. This was in 1993, a year before Asperger's became an official diagnosis.

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16 Oct 2010, 3:02 pm

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16 Oct 2010, 3:09 pm

Diagnosed at the age of 29 (on 2 June 2003), after all the damage had already been done.

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16 Oct 2010, 3:15 pm

I was 8 years old and I am 33 now....I was diagnosed in the mid eighties.
It has been a long journey

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16 Oct 2010, 3:24 pm

wavefreak58 wrote:

And another thing.

I admit that I am feeling a great deal of anger. How could this have gone unnoticed? But I'm even more angry over the fact that I get no credit for getting this far. I am just the office weirdo, still inhabiting the lowest rung on the social ladder. Nobody knows that there was a time when I was effectively socially comatose. If people could see me today and compare it to my teen years they wouldn't believe the change. But all I am is the really smart guy that never actually lives up to his potential. And there is no possibility of any real understanding by anyone outside my immediate family. I know that that's all that should matter. But sometimes some acknowledgment of what I have come through would be nice.

Oh well.

I am fully aware of this feeling. Although I was diagnosed early, I have plodded through so much...and achieved so much stability over the years, but now people who did not know me back then dont think I have PDD-NOS and by doing that, they disrespect my struggle and how far I have come and how hard I worked to get where I am. It is a miracle that I am high functioning as I am, but a curse since no one outside of my family believes it.

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