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I don't have Asperger's. I have autistic disorder. I have been professionally diagnosed as a young child and more recently as an adult. I also meet the criteria listed in the DSM-IV. The AQ and online autism tests agree with the diagnosis as well.

I was officially DXed at 11 and I didn't know what the assesments were about, I was just taken the child development centre and it just went from there. You can't be DXed with AS because of social awkwardness alone, that would just make you eccentric, there are lots of other traits in the criteria that need to be met before it's official. So if someone was socially awkward and didn't like loud noise and had obssesions they shouldn't be really DXed without the most important part of the criterias, if affects their functioning in some way and they're impaired compared to their peers, other wise they'd just be eccentric. Am I making sense?

I'm diagnosed, have been since I was 12. I feel lot of the times I don't have it but it must be borderline then. It was different when I was a kid but now as an adult and being out of school, I feel it's gone. Sometimes I realize I have it but I don't feel impaired by my symptoms because I'm happy. Maybe I'm just unaware of myself because I don't focus on my problems and blame things on my AS.

I was diagnosed when I was in my late teens (I forget my exact age when I was diagnosed), I didn't think about it much, I didn't even know what he was talking about at the time, because I was extremely depressed at the time. I felt alienated, and I had an extremely cynical view on humanity (I felt I was lied to all the time and was being rejected by society). Everything since then has changed quite alot, but I'll never be the same person I used to be (my friends have even stated I don't seem like I'm the same person anymore).

Asperger's Syndrome, like other Autism Spectrom disorders, is marked by a triad of imparments in Social, Communication and Behavioral areas. You have to have a certain amount of symptoms from each group not just one symptom form one section.