MEN: When did you get diagnosed with AS?

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Salkin
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11 Oct 2012, 1:40 pm

I was 30 when diagnosed. My second diagnosis anniversary (heh) is about two months from now.

I had first approached psychiatry on the subject at age 26 after strongly suspecting for a number of years that I had AS. They did a pre-screening and then concluded there was no grounds for a full assessment. I moved a couple of times (within the same metropolitan area; just sublets I wasn't allowed to renew) and eventually ended up in the catchment area of what is now my local psych clinic. I went there for help with anxiety and sleep problems, having given up the thought of a formal dx.

When they reviewed my journal, they came across their colleagues' conclusion from four years prior and strongly disagreed with it, offering to do a full assessment (without me even having mentioned AS to them) and even fast-tracking it for me. (I do like universal health care, but the way it's implemented here, it's often pretty slow for non-emergency conditions.)

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14 Oct 2012, 11:38 pm

Even now, I feel like I have been snake-bitten, given my streak of bad social things happening to me.

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15 Oct 2012, 7:53 am

14 or 15

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15 Oct 2012, 9:17 am

1988 at the age of 14 going on 15 diagnosed with Autism.

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15 Oct 2012, 12:12 pm

lonelyguy wrote:

I was 24 before being diagnosed by a Hospital that deals with this condition took 5 hours of questions and tests to find out at last i had an answer to why i like this..yrs of SEN help since age 5yrs and interaction problems since age2yrs went through the mental health with severe depression in the begining not knowing what was wrong with me.
As others my age were moving on i was struggling with the basic things in life..learning difficulties in math and stuff and not being able to go into public places without fearof getting bullied..as this was for the most part of my life.
I think people knew i had some problems with comunication so they would avoid me..that continued for most of my life..so shut myself away from people and still find it really hard with interaction it just does not exist for me..i live alone with no friends as i am now 27 i d
o have family but aspergers has robbed me of a future..it still looks bleak no job no friends ..no life thats aspergers for me.
I dont have the education or any skills to offer anyone for a job have not worked for yrs as the social side prevents me from mixing in with people i have tried but each time i fail and end upalmost wanting to end it all as if you cant have a nomal life why live it..i battle every day..trying to hold on for some hope but it never comes the isolation is slowly killing me..staring at four walls when others are living..aspergers if you are not at the high function level can be for some the most awful condition to have ..trapped in your own misery
WHAT A LIFE..sorry people for being so down but thats my LIFE WITH ASPERGERS :cry:

You sound so sad and down. I hope you find things get better for you soon. Even if you don't want to be socialising with other people can you not work alongside them and just keep yourself to yourself? Even if you don't communicate with other people it doesn't mean you can't be alongside them just to not feel so alone. Are you on medication? Maybe if you have some anti-anxiety medication you will feel able to deal with being alongside people more. Could you do some online learning to get some new skills, everyone is good at something? Then you will be in a better position to get a job. And not all jobs involve being alongside lots of people, there must be some solitary jobs out there, or jobs with only one or two colleagues. I've learned that no matter how low you go, there is never really anyone there to help you get back up, you have to make yourself pull out of it and fight for what you want.

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16 Oct 2012, 2:25 pm

I was diagnosed at the age of 24, but I had suspected for a number of years. It was like someone had turned on a light in an otherwise pitch black room; it finally all made sense.

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16 Oct 2012, 7:29 pm

I think I was 41 when I was diagnosed with aspergers. I was originally diagnosed around the age of five with generalized anxiety and then came OCD and then came elective mutism. I also had trichotillomania as a child. Though it didn't exist in name and I told my parents it was falling out on its own and they believed me.

I have no idea if AS replaced the earlier ones or if it's in addition too? I never asked. The elective mutism and trichotillomania are definately gone.

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27 Oct 2012, 6:21 pm

I will have to get rediagnosed someday....

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28 Oct 2012, 12:15 am

I was diagnosed around 1963 or so with "Autism/Childhood Schizophrenia". That was way back in the old days. But if I was diagnosed today, it would be Asperger Syndrome.

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28 Oct 2012, 12:42 am

I was diagnosed a couple years ago when I was 30. Me and my parents knew for a long time there was something not right about me, and it was good to have a name and explaination for the weaknesses/symptoms I have.

I was getting help from a organization in my area called DARS, a government organization that's supposed to help people with disabilities find jobs. They helped me get diagnosed, but they didn't really help me get a job. It's wasn't that they weren't trying to help, but they didn't seem to know how (or be able to in the bad job market).

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28 Oct 2012, 2:36 am

I thought it was 6-7, but I just clarified with my mother and apparently I was diagnosed when I was 4.

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03 Nov 2012, 12:08 am

I was going to add a poll here; but I guess I can't now.

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03 Nov 2012, 12:23 am

It was 12 for me.

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03 Nov 2012, 1:32 am

Age 45 for me.

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03 Nov 2012, 2:09 am

I am grateful to have found this board; w/o it, I'd be a lost soul. Thanks to all who have been with me these past few months.

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03 Nov 2012, 3:18 am

Age 52, couple of months ago

Oh yay me, I'm now a seagull

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