Anyone else diagnosed as an adult?

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@Mithos - How old are you & do you have a job ? you only look 20-ish ? , spend most of your time on the PC ?

This thread is a serious disscusion on delayed diognosis of aspergers & your comment trivializes & makes fun of this & the imput by others, including my post above.

However, I'm not going fall out with you over this, as it sounds like you've other mental issues, and I kind of feel sorry for you.

On the other hand, if you suspect you do indeed have aspergers, then my advice is to get dioagnosed sooner rather than later .

I'm 37 and was diagnosed a few weeks ago. I had no idea what Asperger's was until recently. I always knew there was something 'different', I was just afraid I was a sociopath and didn't want to find out. I've always felt this strange thing of being second class, yet feeling actually brighter and more articulate than most others. It's only come to the fore recently when my mate confided in me that he suspected he was AS after reading up on it, and the more I read and the more videos I watched on Youtube, the alarm bells began to ring over the Christmas period. It was at this time that I found out my ex-girl who I was with for 10 years was diagnosed AS and Bipolar disorder shortly after we broke up. I'm also convinced my AS is hereditary. My dad is off the charts. I'm certain of that.
I'm glad I've found out this way to be honest, I wouldn't have liked to have known at a younger age, I'd have felt labelled and it gave me the opportunity to learn to be more social. Chit chat still baffles me, some people can really talk crap, but I can do it with the best of them; it just isn't natural to me is all.

I am at my GP in two days so I can get an official diagnosis as this is most important to me in a world where the people around me ( namely parents ) believe I am and also so that it helps with overall understanding.

I only got diagnosis in January at the age of 45.
Still coming to terms with it and discovering how I could better tackle things that have been problems before (eg: scheduling and distractions)
Apparently Lucian Freud (painter) was only diagnosed in his 80s. Saw a documentary on him the other day and was stunned that it wasn't obvious to everyone before(?!?) Then again, just about everyone I've known for a while and have now told about my diagnosis haven't been surprised at all. The last to know :-$
I've read that kids with aspergers can seem almost NT by the time they reach adulthood. I assume this is only if they're diagnosed and given some sort of help ... because undiagnosed adults just seem to get more and more Aspie as they get older <--my observation...anyone agree or disagree?

I feel there are two versions of me. There's Talk Show Me for the 'Normals' and just 'Me' for the people in my life with Asperger's. I'm growing to dislike 'Talk Show Me' more and more. I don't think 'Talk Show Me' would exist if I'd been diagnosed early.

I'd agree on this, at least partly. People with definite aspie traits - I wouldn't say they are diagnosed - seem to have become more aspieish over time from every age since adulthood in my experience. But, and a huge one, I think I'm sill in the emerging phase nearing 39. Who knows what's in the future for me in say, 20 years?

Yes. 25.

30 now.

Only started to have problems regarding such in high school (14 to 18). Moved to the country and was fine then (left alone). Had some stuff that caused a mental breakdown; OCD came out bad. Kinda fixed that (or better, got used to it more), and still had these interesting difficulties with things. Enter ASD.

I was formally diagnosed on April 29th 2010 with Aspergers Syndrome and Dyspraxia...... I felt such relief at first and actually felt proud.... turns out to be one of my biggest nightmares as the more I learnt about disability discrimination laws in England.... the more I realised the unlawfulness, ignorance and hypocrisy of many organisations, including so called altruistic charities that have a legal and statutory duty to assist those on the Autistic Spectrum Disorder...... however the Autism Act 2009 was a start but my Doncaster Council, NHS Doncaster and RDASH, Community Adult Learning Disability Teams and the Autism Teams here are a disgrace and I cannot get my head around the knowingly allowing people to suffer business .... So many need to be sacked for unprofessional misconduct when I have my breakthrough.

So far, self-dxed at 49. Working on making it official now, at 50.
But I've known I'm on the spectrum, really, since 1994 after reading Donna William's "NObody, Nowhere" which answered a lot of questions for me. I just let that slide though.

Sincerely,
Matthew

I think I am a lot less obviously Aspie now than as a youngster and I had no help. In fact I only worked it out for myself a few months ago. I am on the milder end of the spectrum so maybe that has something to do with it.

I was diagnosed at the end of 2010 at the ripe old age of 33.

Answered a huge amount of questions about my behaviour and thinking. Threw up alot more about how I was going to cope with it and what I wanted to do in my future, still working on that one.

My two cents on the kids with AS growing up to be like NT adults is that you learn strategies and plans to cope with basic (or more advanced) social interactions that are encountered on a day to day basis. I was told once that I have excellent coping mechanisms, plus the doc that diagnosed me said that adult dx was more difficult as it's difficult to seperate out As traits from learned behaviour.

Yes i was diagnosed when i was 19/20. I had a assessment when i was about 3/4 but they just thought i was shy

Im 39 and i was diagnosed about 12 months ago. Im not coping well with it i must admt

Last edited by nikki191 on 01 Mar 2012, 10:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

DXed at 26.

I'm 67, diagnosed maybe three years ago. My adult daughter figured it out, and got me into a diagnosis, but nobody ever thought I wasn't "normal", just slightly weird, (and later, Depressive) but a whole lot of people are slightly weird one way or another. Also, I've been around psychology people my whole adult life: was married to a psychologist (actually, when he was a sophomore in college and not a Masters Degree psychologist yet, but was in the Psych department, so I guess I was around "psychologists" when he was in school) for 13 years. After that, I was frequently on anti-depressants, and getting psych doctors to write the prescriptions for me, anyway, and going in for counseling. Nobody ever said "Asperger's" until my daughter did. Don't forget that most of the diagnosed are caught in school, and nobody looks too closely at you after that, unless you're serious enough to be hospitalized. Back then, they weren't catching Autistics unless they were so severe they were practically catatonic, or totally out of communication with the world. The DSM IV was the first one that had Asperger's, and it came out in 1995. A lot of people still haven't heard of it. If they're in Psychology or Medicine now, they've _heard_about it, but that's about it: they wouldn't recognize one if they saw one. Especially not with symptoms masked by learning "how to act".