Did your parents ever notice ASD symptoms young?

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Yes, they knew something was up in preschool and senior kindergarten.

I didn't make eye contact, I was very energetic and sometimes I would run into traffic. I hit people in my class and pushed them. I isolated myself from everyone else because I didn't like them.

My parents thought it was ADD, which was ruled out. I flew under the radar for years until this year.

A little but since I was first born they didn't really know what was normal and what wasn't.
Delayed speech, selective mutism, I took things literally, used to line up toys, I used to play by myself or sit in the playground under my coat each day. Meltdowns sometimes.
They say asd kids can have a lack of imagination, I was very imaginative though. I pretended to be something or someone else but I wouldn't break character for days.

They did, but they didn´t know why.
Even as a baby I wasn´t too happy about people barging in, disturbing my privacy, looking me in the eyes and making faces for me.
My parents noticed some peculiarities like a need for utmost precision in everything, a keen eye for detail and that I seemed to "disappear" (age 3-4), wherefore they caught me and cuddled me to bring me back - me kicking and screaming.
I didn´t do to well with other kids and if kindergarten had an exam in social grace, I would have failed it. The teacher thought something was wrong.
They called me their little loner and put me in a small school.

Yes but they just thought I was slow. My mother told people I was babyish. She noticed my sensory problems and called me fussy and persnickety. She said I never smiled when I was a baby. She was always telling me to keep my hands still.
She didn't like it that I was uncommunicative and that I spaced out in my own world. She criticized me for not having the gift of gab like her.
My father got mad at me because he thought I liked animals better than people. they called me the animal lady.
My father wanted my mother to take me to a psychologist but she said she didn't want to because they would think she was a bad mother.
My high school noticed too and they called me into the counselor's office and he asked me why I didn't make friends but I didn't know what to tell him. They even had a shrink come in to talk to me but that didn't do any good.
They told my parents I shouldn't be failing because I had a high IQ and on an aptitude test I got a very high score in abstract reasoning, which was raven's matrixes, but did very poorly on the other parts of the test.
In grammar school the nuns thought I was just a shy little girl.
No one gave me any help except to tell me I shouldn't be the way I was. HFA didn't exist back then.

I'm not too sure really.

I know that my stepmother was terrified of me because she said "I knew things".

My social worker said that I would have been burnt at the stake if I had have been around a few hundred years ago.

Not sure whether that relates to anything autistic though.

When I was a toddler my mom asked our GP if I could be autistic & he laughed & said "Nick's just being Nick".

My parents definitely noticed symptoms early on (sensory issues, early social withdrawal and avoidance, early communication issues). They knew something was wrong. Otherwise they would not have sent me to a psychologist when I was 8 and again when I was 11 (and again when I was 18).

When i was young, a doctor recommended getting me tested for autism. My father absolutely refused to allow such testing.