What age did you realize you weren't like everyone else?

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The realization came when I was 14 during the summer of 1996 when I realized that my childhood friend was developing into a teenager and became more interested in dating and other things that kids do. Then in 9th grade, I realized I felt different than my peers in special ed who were not on the spectrum. They have ADD, bipolar disorder and other disorders. The others on the spectrum had more severe challenges and were allowed to be in their own world.

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The realization that you were after the biscuit but couldn't quite reach Summer_Twilight?

I have always thought that I was different but just thought it was one of those things. I've had a rather crazy but innocently lovely upbringings and I have been blessed.
I assumed that because of my different upbringing that I was different.

Little did I know it was a possibility I could be on the autistic spectrum? Am I? I don't know. But it certainly looks like it.

If you said to me (And people did) that I could have aspergers syndrome or autistic I would honestly assume you were messing around and joking with me.

If I am on the autistic spectrum, in my earlier years it was noticeable, but no one picked up on it. Probably no one really understood what it is. I didn't until I came on this site and spoke with all you lovely people!

It is only now through going through some sort of burnout or fragility that the masking has weakened in places that other people have noticed!

Is disccating a normal part of asperges? Because I've been dissocating practically all my life

I can relate to this, when I was 8 I was at my only friends house for a sleepover we didnt go to the same school so I didnt realize her intrest had changed so much. She liked lizzie McGuire now and more realstic shows while I still loved the power puff girls and cartoons. Lizzie McGuire was a great show but it was like I matured slower than her. And I noticed throughout my life that I was well am a lot more immature than my peers. Is that a thing with aspies to be sort of immature? The other aspies I met are kind of child like in a way and it's like of like a second sense I can almost always immediately tell when someone is a fellow aspie

In kindergarten. I would sit alone in a corner of the room and play with animal toys by myself. I didn't interact with the other children. Teachers complained to my mother about this, but she didn't want there to be anything wrong with HER child so she never tried to get me psychological help growing up.

I realized something was off when my kindergarten teacher would often complain to my Dad that I only want to play with the same kid. If my friend was out sick, I would refuse to play with the other kids and keep to myself.
By middle school, I realized something was definitely different with me when most of the other kids would hang out with each other and start getting girlfriends, yet I hadn't quite caught on.
When I was 16, a girl that was a few years younger than me straight out told me "you give me the creeps". A few months later, I learned through my cousin that most of the girls in our church and neighborhood thought I was creepy.

When I was 11 I started experiencing high anxiety but thinking back I should have known before that.... I only realised it could be aspergers this year though and I'm 23...because everyone kept telling me it was just generalised anxiety disorder from a bad childhood but nothing else