When you suspected you had Aspergers. How sure were you??

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Thank you for describing my life to me... you just saved me five minutes

I first heard of it when a neighbor was describing her eight-year-old's behaviors and why she suspected AS for her daughter. Everything she said, I said, "hey, that's kind of like me." I think I even said "maybe I have that!" but I didn't mean it seriously and never gave it further thought.
But my associated issues (social, sensory, coping, meltdown) got worse to the point where said neighbor actually told my friend she suspected I had it. And eventually, I remembered the words (during a meltdown), thought maybe I should find out what it was, and Googled it.

Pre-Googling I was maybe 25% sure.
Post-Googling I was 95% sure.

Since then, three professional diagnoses and no one has said otherwise.
Incidentally, though I turned out having it, the eight-year-old girl turned out not to. Good thing her mother suspected, though, or I might never have found my own answer.

I'm 100% sure that I'm not what people here refer to as NT. Besides that, without an official DX, I'm about 0.001% sure that I have AS. Ok, let's say 0.01% 'cause I'm about 8.8% sure that my father has it. But still, it can be a million other things. Also, about 10 years ago I saw a shrink regularly, and she didn't tell me anything. She made me do a lot of tests and stuff, but she never told me if I had anything or not. That was weird. Then I just stopped seeing her. I liked her, though.

Never came up. Never heard of and was dx at 9 or 10. Which was over 12 years ago. Which means I was dx 2 years after AS was considered a diagnoses by the American Psychiatric Association. I was the first my doctor had seen. And I was one of first case studies done in Ohio.

the first time i heard the name asperger's was on that episode of house where wilson accuses him of being HFA. i went to look it up because i was really just curious as to whether or not you could be an adult on the spectrum and never have known or been diagnosed. after reading like 15 sites with symptom lists and anecdotes written by aspies i picked my jaw up off the floor and said 'oh look, i'm categorizable!'

My brother told me 10 yrs ago that he thinks I have it. I didn't believe him because I didn't like the sound of the word syndrome.

A few years ago there was a guy on a TV music quiz show shattering all records - he is the chairperson of the Asperger's Ass. and got alot of exposure in the media (not all positive exposure). I went on and built up quite an "aspergers pedigree" - diagnosis and hints by professionals for mild forms of other things.

After my own research, the penny dropped about 6 months ago.

So the are apples with the red syndrome and with the green syndrome? I like the green ones.. you?
There are whales with fat syndrome and sharks with the teeth syndrome?
Or big cats with the run syndrome and big cats with the jump syndrome... and even with the hari syndrome.

-I always knew I was different but I was not alone?

Hi all, I'm new here, I've just came to the conclusion I have aspergers and i'm 99.99 sure. I fit all the symptons and i am being referred to a shrink soon, just saw my gp yesterday, he didn't have a scooby-doo = clue!

Anyway, from reading posts in this and in another aspie forum it appears to me that i'm probably more high functioning than most but with all the quirks and foibles of regular aspies lol! i'm also 42 and had never heard of Aspergers syndrone.

It was like a light switch got turned on inside me! I remember going to this site www.as-if.co.uk and I read about asperger's and this ladies experiences with the condition growing up. My experiences were nearly identical in every situation! Previously I had been looking into various disorders and seemed to match up fairly well with a long list of them, until I came across asperger's. I matched up nearly all symptoms. The closest I could come up with before this was somethng like, ADHD, bi-polar, insane, schizoid. I agree with Hakim's razor here as all four of the previous didn't even come close to the one and only asperger's.

I had no idea really what it was. What did they mean, my personality was a mental disorder? And was that really my personality? Some of my AS traits weren't even me at all, but something I pretended to be because I was too shjy to be myself.

At first I didn't believe it at all. I had met 2 people with AS (I now know it was probably very severe AS if not actual autism) & I didn't think I was anything like them.

I went for a diagnosis of dyspraxia and explained that people had suggested I might have Aspergers because of my "flapping" (i.e. my stim), and ended up being told I had symptoms of AS, ADHD & OCD!! !!

Unfortunately I was told that for a full diagnosis, the doctor would need to speak to people who could describe how I was as a child, so I remain technically undiagnosed, although in my outcome letter he went as far as he could to say I did have it without actually saying it.

Since I have been on here, done all the online tests & met others from here, I am now between 90-100% sure I do have it.

Looking back at my childhood, if AS had been known about at the time, there is no way my primary school would have missed it - they thought I was "emotionally immature" and my parents had to fight for me to take the 11+ exam a year early because even though they knew I would find it easy academically, they were worried I would not be able to cope emotionally.