How old were you when you were diagnosed with Asperger's?

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I feel as though I should have been diagnosed sooner than I was. I was diagnosed about 2-3 weeks ago and i'm 19. Is this unusual?

I was diagnosed in the spring of '06, when I was 15.

I'm not diagnosed. I found that I had it over 3 months ago, just after I turned 17.

i was 23.

my brother was the one that found a article about Aspergers and said it was like reading my diary. He passed it along to my mom who then bought it up with me.

I was 16. I think people with AS/HFA get diagnosed later in life opposed to classic LFA.

I was diagnosed at 41.

I have been informed that I exhibited signs of sensory defensiveness from a very early (prior to one year) age, that a teacher thought I had a learning disability at 6, that a family friend told my mother he thought I was autistic at least a decade before AS was in the DSM and only a couple of years after Lorna Wing's paper. I nearly attended a high school that was explicitly not mainstream, but ended up staying in a mainstream high school, which turned out to be a disaster for me, to the point of dropping out. When I described my history, my therapist asked me how on Earth I wasn't diagnosed as a child.

I don't think this is unique - I think it's common to be diagnosed later.

14 or 15, I'm not exactly sure when it became "official".

13. took them that long to drag me to a shrink.

43, A year and a half ago.

It seems a lot of my generation were 'lost'. Not as much info about aspergers or autisim when children..
I wish i'd been diagnoised when i was young.
I was very confused and very abused by the time i was diagnosied.

12. That was in 1997 when AS was still new in the DSM. I don't think lot of doctors knew about it. Many people didn't know about it then. Back then I was just trying to be normal and hated being different and wanted nothing wrong with me. I was even trying to act normal too and found it hard work but I only did it around people, not with family or when I be by myself. So I am sure I tried being normal as possible in the doctor's office when being diagnosed because I knew I was there because I was having problems so I hated being there because it made me feel abnormal. But they probably caught the real me when they left me alone in the room and I bet they spied on me in the other room since they had that window that looked like a mirror.

Diagnosed at 9 years old, told at 18 years old

47 years old, but no formal diagnosis

I was diagnosed at 13

52. Your a bit further ahead in the game than I.