What age are most people diagnosed with aspergers?

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Hello Ashariel.

Thanks but I don't believe you owe me an apology. I understand your experiences (everyone's experiences) are different from everyone else's therefor generating different comments. I don't believe you were trying to be mean or condescending to me or anyone else. I'm in love with the world and you know what they say: "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

So don't feel bad and perhaps let ME apologize for the (definitely) strong manner I used to express myself. It's only been about 2 years since I learned Asperger's applied to me and my strong emotions sometimes just "pop out." When I first discovered my Asperger's, and not knowing anything about existing Asperger's support programs, my "righteous anger" over lack of screening, etc. was ridiculous in it's stupidity and intensity......I'm still embarrassed over this.

But I still stand by my basic idea because waiting to find out about yourself until you're 68 is no fun. And it leads to thoughts like: I wonder what would have happened if only.............(which leads nowhere and just upsets). I already run enough NT fantasies in my brain. I feel if I had had the information about Asperger Syndrome when I was young I might have been able to plan my life, and the life of my family better in many ways.

Nice talking with you.

denny

denny

I am in Ireland too.

I was also diagnosed with ASD last year too but it would have been called Aspergers in years gone by.

I was 38 at the time so I do not think your 14 is late.

I've not yet been formally diagnosed. I remember one time my mother took me to the doctor to get me tested for ADD or something and the doctor looked at me playing magic cards with myself and decided that if I had ADD or anything I wouldn't have the focus for those types of games. He may have been right but it would have been nice to be actually tested. I am debating on whether or not to get tested now (age 24) due to career implications and how it will affect my life if I am diagnosed.

My husband was first diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder, OCD, Anxiety, GAD, and major depression. I called BS on all those diagnosis.

He was diagnosed HFA at 50. His first shrink was an asshat of the first order.

Hey, I like your name! (Still, I prefer Bach to Mozart, even though Bach was an NT and Mozart was one of us. )

I was diagnosed back when I was 6, though to be completely honest, I cannot remember if I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, or High Functioning Autism. Due to my rather advanced intellect at the time, I would guess the former, though when I was a bit younger (3-5 years old), I did appear to have some difficulties that would have suggested HFA, namely the fact that I didn't talk much. Whenever I did speak however, allegedly it was in complete sentences "like an adult", as my parents put it.

I have never been formally diagnosed but I am at the stage where it would just be a formality. Unfortunately, that 'formality' will not be completed because there are only a handful of specialists who deal with adult ASDs, the wait list is long, the price is insanely high and the normal diagnostic process requires a parental interview that ain't gonna happen. The only ones I know who were formally diagnosed were either diagnosed as children (of course they are all younger than me) or were diagnosed in a big city like Toronto or Vancouver.

So to answer your question, around here it's usually around the pre-teen/early teen years, when any competent Doctor would have seen the obvious signs if it wasn't for the fact it didn't get into the literature until 1994, after I had my worst trouble at school. I would think if I were a child growing up now, it would be laughably obvious!

27.

I was almost your age, just about to turn 14, when I was diagnosed.

Yes it depends on when you were born. I´m from ´53 and I got dxéd last summer, around my 60´th birthday. Aspergers and autism were hardly known in my school days, so I was just the weird kid and sometimes subjected to a school psychologist and rohrschack testing.

i read Girls are more likely to be diagnosed with AS in theyre teens, and some are diagnosed at childhood, not many are diagnosed at toddler years like boys are.

boys ages tend to Vary, it depends how adaptable they are.

i was diagnosed at 15, im 17 now,

I was 30. I think it's mostly because awareness of ASD was lower back when I was in my teens, and nonexistent before then.

It was first picked up in me in 2005 at the age of 38. A different psychiatrist (with no prior knowledge of previous diagnosis) also diagnosed me with AS last year (2013). I was 46.

I didn't really need a diagnosis from anyone to tell me I was different though.

I have never been formerly diagnosed either. As far as I know, a formal diagnosis of AS was never performed on anyone until I was long out of high school. I know what is going on with me thankfully, and I accept it as good enough. Don't know how to get a formal diagnosis, and disregard it as something I need to do now. I do o.k. people around me know very little about it, as to have it not matter to them either. When I say to most of the people I know that I have AS, and it is part of the autism spectrum, they tell me I'm different, and weird, but I'm not ret*d, so I don't have it. Kind of disturbing.

I was diagnosed when I was extremely young. My mother had me diagnosed when I was only two years old, but I didn't know about my own condition until I was 13. As I can see from the amount of responses here, there is a large gap on the age when someone is officially diagnosed by a professional.

It varies….