At what age were you diagnosed with autism/Aspergers?

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17 with aspergers

Diagnosed at age 22 with Asperger's.

However I had been told by a professional at age 13 that she was pretty sure I had it, I just didn't get the actual diagnosis for another 9 years.

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Diagnosed at 15 with Asperger's.

When I was a child, my teachers always brushed off my eccentric behavior as "quirkiness that comes with high intelligence". When I was in my ealy teens, I had a bad case of OCD and anxiety, so the mental health professionals I went to see were more focused on getting those under control than with finding out why I was eccentric.

Then when I was 15, I went in for bloodwork and the doctor kept asking a bunch of questions that didn't seem to be related to each other. Then she said that I "probably had Asperger's Syndrome". I talked to my psychiatrist about it, and a bunch of tests later, he diagnosed me. He also referred me to an autism specialist who confirmed the diagnosis.

Around age 8 my babysitter told my mum that she think's I have aspergers. The babysitter then suggested she go to an aspergers/autism specialist. I must have been one heck of an easy diagnoses, now that I know what common traits of AS are I realise I displayed almost every single one on the first day lol. About 3 weeks later I was officially diagnosed.

Since then I've had to be 'Re-assessed' three times because the Australian government seems to think it can go away after time... (The last one I nearly failed because it consisted mostly of him showing me multiple variations of smiley faces and frowning faces, Which I informed him I knew because I'm online so much and that if he shows me pictures of real people he would get a proper result.)
(My original diagnosis and first re-diagnosis should have been proof enough as I went to one of the best specialists in aus. Since then they get worse and worse each time...)

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28, earlier this year, after being misdiagnosed with social anxiety since my teens.

I was officially diagnosed with Asperger's when I was 44. I am now 47.

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I was first diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 3 because my doctor was an idiot.
When I was 12 I started seeing a new doctor that diagnosed me with PDD. For some reason my diagnosis changed to aspergers at the age of 16.
At the time I had no interest in learning about autism.

AS at 8. I have no idea what was going on, I heard that the school payed for the diagnosis or something.

AS at 17.

13 & 7mths.

65, Asperger's

Seashell, I've had some kind of anxiety disorder and cyclical depression every year since I was 18. Those two often proceed from the Asperger's, as near as I can tell. Anyway, the meds for those work, and there's still the basic difference that's the Asperger's.

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22.