How many are diagnosed on wp

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So I was wondering how many people in wrongplanet are professionally diagnosed, self diagnosed, suspected but undiagnosed or NT.

This is just out of curiosity

I thought at first the title meant how many had been diagnosed by WP members haha

Out of interest, what's the difference between 'self diagnosed' and 'suspected but undiagnosed'?

I'm inclined to select the self-diagnosed option as I'm assuming that means "I've done a lot of research", whilst the other is "I've read a bit and it seems to fit me", but want to be sure before I pick my answer.

Professional. I was like 15, in school and was a difficult time.

With me, it's a little complicated LOL

I was diagnosed, by a professional, with Infantile Autism when I was three. This was because I did not speak. And because I was oblivious to the world around me. It was a valid diagnosis for my functioning at the time. Infantile Autism carried a poor prognosis in those days.

Then I was diagnosed with Brain Damage/Injury (a frequent diagnosis, in my opinion, for many who would be diagnosed with HFA/Asperger's today), when I was about four. This diagnosis was seemingly less serious, the prognosis was better, and was based upon improvements I made in my functioning, like acquiring speech at age 5 1/2, and presenting more Aspergian than classis autistic. Later on, this diagnosis was called Minimal Brain Dysfunction. I went to a Brain-Injured nursery school.

I did not think of myself as having autism when I was a child, even after I learned about it when I was nine. I thought of myself as weird, and supposedly cured of my so-called retardation via brain surgery. My friend's brother had (and has) what would now be called Level 3 autism. He is non-verbal, yet has self-care skills. I thought of HIM as being autistic.

Then along came Asperger's Syndrome, and the notion of the Autistic Spectrum around the early 1990s. There existed a vague notion of a "high-functioning' form of autism in the 1980s, though it wasn't official until the DSM IV.

When I read about Asperger's Syndrome, I realized that it fit me to a tee, despite the fact of my speech delay.

Thus, I self-diagnosed myself as being on the Spectrum. Not exactly Asperger's because of the speech delay. More like classic autism because of the history. Then, in 2014, I got on Wrong Planet. The rest is history.

Got my assessment tomorrow, feeling very weird and all over the place!

Professional. I was diagnosed at the age of 5. It was called Mild Autistic Tendencies back than.

I got a professional diagnosis when I was three.

I was diagnosed at 16 with Asperger's syndrome, although my psychiatrist knew a year earlier. I had begun reading about the autism spectrum disorders before then- wondering if I had less severe classic autism (AS criteria seemed to not really fit me).

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

I was diagnosed twice with Aspergers.

Once at 10, then at 13 due to some suspected anxiety and depression symptoms.

Funny, I recall the 1st but not the 2nd. And I wasn't officially diagnosed with either anxiety or depression, it only results back being in the spectrum.
And ironic thing is, some self-diagnosed aspies ends up with official diagnosis of anxiety or depression instead.

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I was diagnosed at age 5.