How old were you when you were diagnosed?

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When were you diagnosed with Asperger's/Autism/PDD-NOS?

Before 3	3%	[ 5 ]
3-6	4%	[ 7 ]
7-11	11%	[ 19 ]
12-16	15%	[ 25 ]
17-20	15%	[ 25 ]
21 and up	34%	[ 58 ]
I am undiagnosed	18%	[ 31 ]
I am NT	1%	[ 2 ]

Total votes : 172

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08 Mar 2008, 1:20 pm

How old was everyone here when they were diagnosed? I was 17 before receiving a formal diagnosis.

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08 Mar 2008, 1:23 pm

I was diagnosed this year.. I think I am 26.

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08 Mar 2008, 1:35 pm

14.

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08 Mar 2008, 1:39 pm

I will be diagnosed this year, at 17.

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08 Mar 2008, 1:51 pm

I was 15 when I got diagnosed. I can't believe it'll be two years this spring!

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08 Mar 2008, 2:18 pm

I was 22, that was a year ago.

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08 Mar 2008, 2:19 pm

I was 12.

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08 Mar 2008, 2:20 pm

Diagnosed at age 16, but diagnosed with PDD-NOS at age 9 before that.

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08 Mar 2008, 2:24 pm

I am undiagnosed Aspie, my son was officially diagnosed autistic at 5. He was evaluated and first considered autistic at 2 1/2 years.

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08 Mar 2008, 2:33 pm

I was diagnosed at the age of 28, but when I was 4 or 5, I was diagnosed with ADD - Predominantly Inattentive Type. The description of my "symptoms" matched AS better than ADD, but AS was not being diagnosed at the time.

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08 Mar 2008, 2:59 pm

Just before I turned 31.

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08 Mar 2008, 3:25 pm

I was 14 when I was diagnosed. When I was 13 a doctor said I was probably AS or there was a good chance of it based on what I told him. But when my mother researched autism and decided I was autistic she had a really crappy, miserable attitude about it until she got used to it and that's why my diagnosis was a blow to my ego that I never quite got over.

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08 Mar 2008, 3:31 pm

I was dianosed with AS when I was 15.

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08 Mar 2008, 3:32 pm

Well HFA at age 4, then when I moved to another state and had to attend a new school district they said HFA again at age 8. This was in 1986 and 1990. Just a few years before AS was accepted and always felt I fit that DX better.

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08 Mar 2008, 3:34 pm

I was 14.

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08 Mar 2008, 3:40 pm

All of eight years old, before I got diagnosed with Aspergers. I always knew I wasn't normal, I just never knew exactly what the reason was.

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