At what age did your symptoms start?

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As, best as I recall it was around the early age of 3..

When I was a baby. I was fully diagnosed when I was 2 years old.

Language development is a strange thing for me. My first language is Cantonese, but I didn't really learn until I was 3-4ish. Then we moved to America, so I had to learn another language all over again. English is weird, but yet I feel at ease speaking it.

I also never learned how to write until I was 9. I never had many friends at first. Just kids from special ed classes and an Aspie girl who people tended to ignore.

I have no idea when everything started. Maybe it was when my parents compared me to my sister, or maybe when my brother was born, or maybe much later when I started schooling.

As long as I can remember. And there are behaviors described in my baby book that today I know as stimming.

My parents noticed I wasn't normal sense I was a baby.

My symptoms started from as long as I could remember.

I really don't know. I would say that I always was out there in my own world and always talked to myself. Though I started talking perhaps months late rather than years late once I actually started talking people always complained that I talked nonstop in annoying monologues.

I recall sometime around the age of six or so - my parents wanted me to drink prune juice because they observed I was frequently constipated and they had heard that could be what caused my terrible and frequent tantrums.

My mom said I was pretty normal as a baby, but she remembers me having special interests and sensitivites from about 2 years old. The bad stuff didn't really start till middle school though.

i know quite a lot about my history of autism due to the fact that i was institutionalized for much of my childhood and i was told by my psychiatrists about many things that led to my diagnosis at an early age.

when i was about 3 months old, people started to become worried about me. i seemed to have no connection with anyone in an emotional sense. most babies at that age look at the faces of other people, and they respond to facial expressions that are directed at them. they smile in symphony with a smiling face, and scowl in unison with others who scowl at them etc. i had no reaction to anyone's face, and i was oblivious to their attempts to woo me and play with me and i never paid any attention to them at all.

i was always seemingly fixated on aspects of my environment that i was looking at, and no one else could guess what it was that was holding my attention.
i often smiled and became excited whilst looking at things that they could not determine even if they placed their heads where my head was and tried to look in the same direction as i was looking, and yet they could not attract my attention for longer than a few seconds. it disappointed them quite a lot.

i did not have an attention deficit because i often was locked in scrutiny of seemingly trivial things that were on the floor or in the dirt if i was outside, and i was eventually left to my own devices because i seemed to be happy and i was not able to respond to any attempt to introduce me to social orientation and integration.

i have posted the following picture before, but it is an example of me being interested in an extraneous aspect of my environment and inattentive to people who were trying to make me look at them for the picture. i was about 10 months old. i used to have a fixed gaze for longer than average children of my age.

it says many things i think that would take too many words to describe.

I can't ever remember when I wasn't weird. The earliest memory of my life, is when I was 2 years old; so, I'd say around then.

I was showing signs when I was one year old. Not looking at peoples faces, failure to respond to people, not interested in being held by anyone other than my mother. I've always had perfect language skills, but I've never been a conversationalist. I've never been one for stimming very much, but I am fascinated by certain repetitive motions. Fourth grade was the first time my parents took me to start seeing a therapist. By seventh grade I was next to suicidal, was hospitalized and put on many anti-depressants. In eighth grade I was taken out of public school and placed in a special therapy school. I started to recover personally by ninth grade, but was never quite able to socially connect with everyone else. I'm pretty high functioning, intelligent and have always held a job. I've had obsessions over the years, but they are usually personally useful ones like science. I'm not sure what normal sensory levels are, but I've never like to have my TV volume very loud.

I was diagnosed with "regular" Autism when I was 4, but was re-diagnosed with AS when I was 13.

I should have been diagnosed ASD by 5 years old.

After I got vaccinated.

Infancy/toddlerhood.