Hindsight and wishing you were diagnosed sooner

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Yeaa definitely wish I'd been diagnosed sooner. It would have done me a lot of help rather then get fobbed off as ret*d/lazy/difficult.

Yep I really wish I had been diagnosed when I was a child one thing was consistent that Autism was hinted at at various parts of my life really wished my folks would have pursue that. Maybe I would have gotten the correct services and placed in an appropriate class/setting rather then in the lower functioning classes with students whom had various ID issues. Oh well at least I know now that I'm not nearly as screwed up as past psychologists and/or doctors said I was based on their suspicions nor am I ret*d as my teacher bluntly called me in class.

Yes and no. I was diagnosed i november so quite recently and quite late. A lot of awkwardness and problems could have been avoided/dealt with better with an earlier diagnosis.
On the plus side, a late diagnosis meant nobody ever told me that I would never be good at social skills. I was also expected to act more or less like others. Which meant I learned some things the really hard way, things I probably would not have learned otherwise. So the late diagnosis was usefull in some ways.
On the other hand I have learned and understood a lot about myself during these last months, which probably would have helped to know sooner.
Short version is that im undecided whether or not a late diagnosis was a good thing.

I always wish this

I'm thankful that I was diagnosed at 14 but by then I was already in Highschool, elementary and middle school had already been long past and the damage had already been done. I suffered a lot of confusion, tantrums and stress and I developed anxiety, depression, eating disorders, phobias, made a few bad life choices, failed a lot of classes, lost a lot of friends all because I didn't get support when I was young. Now I'm stuck with these problems. The worst part is I TOLD PEOPLE MY PROBLEMS BUT THEY DIDNT LISTEN. PEOPLE SAW I WAS STRUGGLING MORE THAN OTHERS AND THEY IGNORED ME.A large sum of my problems could've been delt with a long time ago but people didn't listen to me and then I suffered in the long run.

I guess I can't really blame them, even in the late 90s the only reference anyone had to autism was Rainman.