What age was when you found out you was AS or other disorder

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I never was a disorder

Lol. I think he meant before it even existed in the DSM. I just found out last month my psychiatrist who diagnosed me knew of AS in the 80's because he kept up with autism through documents from all over. He used the DCM 10, Gillberg and another criteria from 1989. Then he used the DSM when it came out so I assume he used that on me.

Not outside the law of phsyics so don't get bothered by it

HFA @ 11. i was diagnosed late because of my parents desire to wait for me to 'snap out of it'.

I was dx'd at a young age, but my parents told me at the age of 10,11, or 12....

So, what's it like being diagnosed while your parents still look after you? I was a misfit all my life, but arguably normal until I self-diagnosed with aspergers at the age of 52. It took a few more years to make it official. Now I'm a misfit with an explanation, if I can find someone with a high enough tolerance for boredom to listen to it.

My mom treated me the same. She was great.. I dunno though, I was pretty clueless. I was like "I'm going to a special school? lol awesome" and never thought to ask if there was a reason why. XD;;;; So I didn't know that I had any condition for her to know about until after I had moved out.
My dad (I realize now) must have been sort of embarrassed for/of me because I was so awkward. He'd always try to correct my behavior and get me to dress more stylish and stuff. (I've seen pictures of myself, my clothes choices were pretty hideous when I was younger..)

I was dx'd before my dad met my stepmom, so during the young years, my dad sacraficed alot to get me early intervention therapy and such as speech and such.He married my stepmom when i was in kindergarten.Because of that, kindergarten and such wasnt too bad.I had a teacher's aide with me up until grade 2, in grade 3 I was mainstreamed but went to special ed for one or two classes a day and one class a day in grade four...after that i was fully mainstreamed, but not without difficulty, but I was helped out at home with school work and such.My parents treated me the same way my siblings were treated, but when teaching me new things, they taught it in a way that I would better understand and explained it better.

Found out about AS at 40. Still not able to find someone able to do a Dx.

21. I'm actually kind of glad I didn't know through my childhood because it taught me to cope. I do wish I could have been diagnosed in high school. I could have gotten some special help in school and maybe graduated with a GPA higher than 2.5. I learned about AS around 16, went to a psychotherapist and she told me I did not without even investigating it, but I believed her no less, until my brother was diagnosed this year and then I went to go check it out and in the session the psychiatrist/psychologist told me yes indeed, along with some other stuff.

I found out about Aspergers in the most ironic way. Helping a friend get through a weaning/growing up period away from his parents (he was 30, me 38), after about two years of trying to help him (he presented as someone with a demand avoidance problem, no sensory issues, and scored higher than me on the autism test) he piped up "I have Aspergers don't you know!" We both did the online tests, he scored quite low on the Aspie test where as mine is a 188.

I'd not heard of it before this, despite having an ADHD kid, it's not something I'd studied that much into. My official diagnosis was about six months ago, at age 39, and it has made such a difference to my life and I have little doubt I'm on the spectrum. The lifelong sensory issues have only increased with age (and brain lesions) and having an explanation for them makes it a little easier to bear.

My friend and I still laugh about the irony, he scores a 21 on the autism test now, amazing what pulling ones head out of one's butt can do for functioning *LOL*.

I was 28 when i got my official dx, but my mother had mentioned my "autistic traits" for years up to that point (spinning stuff around, etc.). Well, i was going through a depression at the time and it came up again. So, i decided to look it up (used wikipedia . . . sacrilege, i know, but it proved useful), and it solved an age-old family question (had an uncle with tendencies similar to mine, which was often pointed out over the years). It was actually a relief to get an answer, then the help needed to get through afterwords. Well, some help at least . . . took 6 mos to get a job coach, then landed a p/t job 3 months later, but had to move out of my apartment. So, back with my parents again, going through the excruciating pain of job hunting (cannot stand the mental stagnancy of it) . . .

I was diagnosed in 1988 with HFA. My psycharitrist now treats it as and calls it AS, even though she has not formally diagnosed me.

I was 16 when I was officially labeled, but My family and i had known for years, but we never talk about it.

I was 27, it was this summer. No one suspected when I was a kid. I was just brainy, dreamy and a bit odd. Suffered depression, anxiety and OCD in my teens. Never belonged with anyone normal. Then I had my son, and he was diagnosed with atypical autism at age 4 and after fighting the realization he wasn't OK in other people's eyes I had to face that in that case neither was I. My father (who's very supportive in addition to being a psychiatrist) got me an evaluation with specialists and I was diagnosed with Asperger's, Tourette's and trichotillomania. No OCD though. I think my obsessive and ritualistic behavior is just as appropriately covered by my autism diagnosis.

I was 27, it was this summer. No one suspected when I was a kid. I was just brainy, dreamy and a bit odd. Suffered depression, anxiety and OCD in my teens. Never belonged with anyone normal. Then I had my son, and he was diagnosed with atypical autism at age 4 and after fighting the realization he wasn't OK in other people's eyes I had to face that in that case neither was I. My father (who's very supportive in addition to being a psychiatrist) got me an evaluation with specialists and I was diagnosed with Asperger's, Tourette's and trichotillomania. No OCD though. I think my obsessive and ritualistic behavior is just as appropriately covered by my autism diagnosis.