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

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On a scale to 1-100 %

Pretty sure (around 90%). It explains so much.

It has varied between about 30% and 90%. At the moment I am at the lower end of the scale. It was my ex-husband who suggested it and initially I was very resistant to the idea but I saw the similarities. I have since gone through a phase of being very sure (such that I even told other people including my Aspie cousin - and of all the people I told she was the only supportive one) and back down again. I am currently slightly depressed and doubting everything including whether I am an Aspie or just a weak, self destructive waste of space.

My daughters therapists and teachers (speech and OT) are who first mentioned to me the possiability that I may be an "aspie". (She's autistic) I did't even know what AS was. So I started doing a little research and was thinking like "Yeah, that sounds a LOT like me, yeah, that sounds like me ect. ect...." and then I'd wonder if I was just imagining it because of my daughter or something.
But then I started reading the posts by people on WP and was immediatly struck by how MUCH it was like me in all aspects. It was like "Oh Crap, maybe I DO have it! Now I'm 90-100% sure. Its just taking me a while to adjust to being labeled. I don't feel "disabled."
More enabled actually. It explains so much for me.

100% Sure. Thats cuz I was diagnosed profesionally and before the doc told neither I nor my parents or ANY other professionals I had seen even heard of it!

I spent 13 years wondering if I was on the spectrum before doing anything about it. Whenever I came across a personal account of an ASD, I would relate to it, but when I looked up the diagnostic criteria, I wasn't sure if it fit. There seemed to be a significant discrepancy between clinical descriptions and autobiographical accounts. When I found this site, I learned a lot and it all became clear.

I didn't know what Asperger's (or autism) was before my therapist told me about it. I was pretty sure after she told me; it explained everything.

In the beginning I treated it as a curious detail, not necessarily refering to me even if I realized exquisitely well that so many things fit me. But I wouldn't be suprised if a shrink told me then I had it. Later I realized the described cases were borderline autism/AS, not such "pure" AS when I acquired more knowledge about this topic. Speaking of a 1-100 % scale, in that time I'd put myself on 10% - many similarities but it's everything. Now I'm about 80% sure.

i waffled...and still kinda do i guess...

I have things in common with people on the spectrum

but am not 100 percent sure I am a bonified aspie..

Not 100% sure it's Asperger's, but I'm pretty sure it's not Rett (statistically speaking, I'd be dead by now), and I'm fairly certain it's not low-functioning autism.

My mom doesn't remember my childhood well enough to say if it's childhood disintegrative disorder or not (she only remembers that I've been rocking since birth).

100% certain I have dyspraxia. I kind of got tired of researching the other syndromes on the spectrum.

About 95%. I read an article about a woman my age who had it (in Psychology Today). It sounded exactly like me, but I was kind of in denial for a while.

Was 100% certain from the first time I read the symptom list.

50%

One day it's 30% other day 70%

I really don't know

'bout 70-80%. I first saw some of the symptoms, and didn't have them to the degree that everyone else does, but they are there...it's the simplest explanation that covers all the facts (Occam's Razor)