Autistic and didn't know it?

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Although I'm not officially diagnosed, I am pretty sure I am autistic.

I was taken to some type of psychiatrist once, I think my parents wanted that person to straighten me out and after the first session, they never took me back.

In 4th grade I was put in special ed, I remember the kid next to me rocking all the time in the cafeteria and he did not speak...but within a couple of weeks, I was put in some advanced classes with units vs. regular class and then taken back to my other regular classes.

In high school my school counselor saw me every week for about 5 months because I was not getting used to the move, made no attempt to have friends, etc...after 5 months I told her to stop calling me into her office, that nothing was going to change.

I have tried to ask my mother about this (my relationship with my father is horrendous, with my mother not as bad), but she always claims she doesn't remember. She also thinks there is NOTHING wrong with my twice diagnosed son, thus I am assuming that even if she was told, she felt that it was MY FAULT and will forever hide it. To this day she blames ME for everything and claims they did the best they could (very abusive most of the time), but I think not acknowledging all of this was a way for them to shift the blame to me and not them for the abuse.

PS my mother does acknowledge that my cousin's kiddo is autistic, just by him saying so, although she's never met the kid...I believe that is the side of the family where this comes from

Didn't find out till about my sophmore year in high school. I look back and I had some pretty High functioning/mild traits like walking on my tip toes, didn't know how to tie my shoes till I was 13 and it is pretty much the only thing I can tie and it is pretty basic so it comes apart easily, when I was much more extroverted I only talked about things I liked and was very blunt sometimes.

I got diagnosed by an Autism Spectrum research facility so they went really in depth on me. When one woman told me I had Asperger's I thought "Did she just say I have burgers in my ass!?" I was shocked since I thought she was cursing at me.

I never really thought much of it since I was still naive it was only till I got put into more social situations that I started to realize the gap between me and NTs.

No one will know they're autistic until someone else tells them.

It'd require a level of awareness that a person with autism will lack to have the insight into their behavior compared to those without.

Yeah here. Me and my parents didn't know. I had behaviour problems a little when I was young. It was thought I could of had a mental illness later on. I still had trouble socially and would handle things the wrong way. I had mood swings and such. It took aged but they found I didn't have any mental illness but as ASD

I thought there was no problem with me, I thought it was other who were the problem. It wasn't unusual that I had no friends, it was normal for me so I didn't think it made me a weird person.