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im curiuos to know how many girls on this forum have aspergers and have been diagnosed with it for how long. Im just curious to know because i mostly meet men and boys with aspergers im a guy with aspergers that has been diagnosed since the age of 14 and id like to know what life was like for you ladies

for me i could not adapt very well to change of anything. different routes, change of clothes, loud noises, etc so many things

I was also diagnosed with AS when I was 14, and my life is mainly depression, which causes most of my problems.

I was originally diagnosed with AS four years ago (when I was fourteen), but I've recently been rediagnosed with NVLD.

I am a female who was diagnosed with aspergers last year when I was 15 years old. I am now 16 so it has not been very long since my diagnosis.

I was diagnosed with AS when I was 12 but I don't truely have it.

I am almost 34 (in November) and was diagnosed officially with AS at 31 years of age (self-dx'd prior to that). I was diagnosed after realizing that I had AS after my son was diagnosed wth Autism back in July 2003. I was a tomboy, outcast, never fashionable, pretty much shunned by other females, when I did have friends they were mainly guys. Had a hard time making and keeping friends.

I am not diagnosed but I was flabbergasted that there's so many females here, on this forum. Having read all those articles about AS I believed that women and girls are exceptions while they seem to be almost half of the members of Wrong Planet.

Quite a few, because more and more women get diagnosed with AS every year!

I wasn't diagnosed until very recently. I think I go through a lot of the same things guys go through, lol. It is odd to think of it like that, but the difference is it was considered more "normal" for me to behave and react the way that I do, as females are often viewed by many as emotionally unstable. What got overlooked was that I am unstable when things do not make sense to me, rather than just being upset because I think I am right, or because a friend did something, etc. I was always looking for the answers, trying to "solve" the problem, and became emotional due to people generally not responding to it at all, or them not WANTING to find the answers.

It was overlooked, as many things often are, simply because the context or intentions of it were not questioned. Females=emotional, and since I=female, they blew it off.

I have always thought that I think more like a guy than a female, that something was not right about me most of the time, lol. But nobody ever took it very seriously. I've had a few experiences with being in relationships, all of them long term. People always like how I think differently, and comment on it, but nobody ever looked at it as anything bad until they realized that I am ALWAYS like this, lol. But again, it was overlooked as me just being an overemotional female.

am a girl,but am also kanners type autist,not aspergan.
not lf,but am not hf either,am was closer to lf a few years ago,but have improved due to a lot of support from specialists,staff,family and the internet.
am no different to the male stereotype of autism,probably due to being extremely male brained.
have to have set routines,and cannot change them,if any changes happen it sets off self harming meltdowns,have severe sensory problems,am often have to use makaton to speak as the language part completely shuts itself down ,have poor understanding of language,am wear the same clothes every day to- until staff try to get am to change,and it is done one item per day,and they are then washed and dried the same day,have one quilt cover which gets washed and dried and put back on the same day,am rock whenever am satdown,am handflap a lot,am was aware of self and others very little growing up so had no need for friends,am have little awareness of difference between male and female-as a result of growing up with little awareness of others,and do not think in things as being female or male only things as it is all the same,am usually called any sort of name that some females get called when other people don't like how they are not sterotypically female [eg,tomboy,gay,trannie etc],these usually NT females are trapped and are disabled by their gender,not being able to do anything that isn't what the media or others says is for girls is bad and am feel am gifted with not having to experience that.
am also have a great long term memory [another typical ASD trait],am can remember little details from years ago,and if am going through a place am have not been there for years,am can remember anything from the colours of signs to the bricks on a certain house.


am do not like it when people say girls have it easier or milder than boys with autism,although more commonly said with aspergers,people should stop grouping all females on the spectrum together as having the same experience because not everyone is as successful,or has it as mild as what they make it out to be.

I'm female and diagnosed with AS since May this year.
I wasn't AS as a kid but more severe and I can't identify well with those who have Aspergers now either, thus I'm sure I'm closer to HFA. Adults only every get the AS diagnosis where I live.

Nobody realised that I was autistic although I didn't talk to children at all, didn't play with them and only ever besides them, didn't know important information children should know already and so on. The aunties at kindergarten and my teachers always claimed I was either stupid or a rebel and did everything on purpose. As a result, I was punished often and severe. I didn't engage in peer conversation until age 10 and by then I failed horribly at it. So, no, I didn't have any social life until I went into what is here middle school.
I talked to adults though, I often asked for stories and asked them lots of things, but I couldn't remember names nor faces. One adult could have disappeared and another could have taken his place - I probably wouldn't have noticed and if I had, I wouldn't have minded.

While this social things were severe I didn't have so much trouble with routines. My world at home was very orderly and structured, my family likes everything structured.

I just remembered: I was also very prone to spinning, jumping, hanging/sitting upside down, but I never flapped my hands.

The rest I can't remember or don't want to talk about.

I'm 21 and not diagnosed and wondering how much help it'll be to me if I do get diagnosed. I guess the reason I was never diagnosed at school was because I did well in exams so nobody cared. However, since not understanding non verbal signals/irony/sarcasm/humour/being teased is roughly equivalent to having a sign above your head asking to be bullied... well obviously I was. I am just totally socially inept and still have only a few real friends. I have also always hit my head, legs and arms very hard and cut myself when stressed, I only found out by reading other peoples accounts today that this was related to my AS!! !