How old were you when you were diagnosed?

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I was diagnosed at 15.

If I go for professional dx I'll probably be about 32 years old... by then DSM V will be the standard and if the proposed criteria for ASD sticks then I'll either be diagnosed with Level I ASD, or have picked the wrong person to talk to. If by then I doubt that I'll be diagnosed I will not doubt about the idea of not seeing someone about it.

I am glad that I didn't start learning this set of terms and definitions and their relationship to me until I turned 30. (literally the day after). Had I known earlier, just because of how I am, I might have used it as an excuse not to try as hard as I have on some of the things that I've accomplished in the last 6 years of my life. (Job, Car, Social Hobbies, Renting a home in the part of town I've always wanted to live in, etc)

I was diagnosed with Aspergers at 9 years old.

Both. It is a good thing because I have services in school and such, but a bad thing because they would a social story when I was in grade 2 that was slightly traumatizing. I also had a teacher who basically wrote the description of a stereotypical autistic kid when I was in grade 1. She basically had written the stereotypes of autism out right then and there. It said that I didn't have friends, but even though I did.

I was diagnosed sometime around 5 years old. My parents never told me because they didnt agree with it. But then one day I found a copy of the case study... lol.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's last year at the age of 23.

I was diagnosed with high functioning Autism about a year ago at age 22. It was the day I joined the forum. I wouldn't join until I was certain. I am finally making my first post.

Welcome! even though you've been here longer than me lol

Diagnosed with what?
Let's see:
I was Dxed with depression early on, and my parents put me on Prozac by EIGHT.
Anxiety dx came at around 18 (which I do have) but since to my mother depression is the only mental illness, I was still "depressed".
Put on a cocktail of anti-anxiety medications, including Klonopin, which left me lethargic and dumb.
At 20, they dragged me to some quack who said I had bipolar disorder because I don't sleep at night (I sleep during the day, because the day is too effing bright to be conscious for). Lamictal was prescribed, and my dad insisted on watching me take it.

21- I find my savior- a quiet, unassuming therapist at the army base where my dad worked, primarily trained in treating PTSD, but well-informed generally, who had a copy of the list of Asperger's traits developed studying WOMEN. He was the first to take my "side", and tell my parents that they could no longer pretend our family's problems were because of my difference.
He later told me he suspected my dad has Asperger's,
and then on my first visit with him, when I was most "regressed" due to the previous...21 years of life...he knew immediately I had it.

I'm nearly 24 and it's taken them this long to come around to his way of thinking.
Why I had to spend a quarter of my life telling them I'm not obstinate/defiant/difficult purely to irritate them, I have no idea.

Diagnosed with NVLD at 28.

I suffered from mild depression, OCD and anxiety from my late teens throughout my twenties. It came to a head when I had a breakdown at 28. After receiving the diagnosis my depression got much worse. I had gone through some pretty big changes in my life and getting the diagnosis pushed me over the edge. I suffered from a depersonalization disorder and was suicidal for a while. Things are much better now that I'm starting to accept myself and my NLD brain. It explains a lot. I'm still figuring out who I am though