How long ago did you get a diagnosis?

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I'm wondering when the diagnoses of Asperger's and High Functioning Autism started. I'm 43 and just got a diagnosed with Asperger's 2 years ago but what I would like to know is when did the diagnosis really begin for Aspies. I know Hans Asperger first discovered it and someone else was involved but the term Asperger's Syndrome didn't really take place until years later so is it another name for High Functioning Autism or is Asperger's a totally different thing.

I hope I'm making sense on what I'm trying to ask. Like, if you're 30 or 40 years old, how long ago were you diagnosed? Was it a diagnosis of Asperger's or High Funcioning Autism? Also, are there people 35 or older who was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism as a child and was later changed to Asperger's? I wonder how long the diagnosis of High Functioning Autism has been around.

If you were diagnosed with High Functioning Autism as a child and you're in your 30's or 40's, is it safe to assume you can hold a job and communicate well enough that people might know you're different but would never guess autism?

3 months and 14 days ago Droopy and the DX is "definitely on the spectrum, but too high functioning to be Aspergers".

10 and a half years ago. I was diagnosed as having autism in the late 1980's. Then when I was four or five, it was changed to 'autistic behavior' because I had hearing loss.


Of course I had to be re tested and all in 6th grade because my psychologist thought I may have AS because it was the only condition left on the list of the possibilities of what I might have. I was real hard to diagnose because of my hearing loss. The psychiatrist said Aspergers was the closest match he can come to for me for a diagnoses. I don't know why he didn't use PDD-NOS. I can think of two reasons for it; PDD-NOS would have given my school the power to put me in a class with violent kids, he doesn't do diagnoses for PDD-NOS.

12 years ago.

2 years ago. I was 18.

This week, last week, maybe the one before that.. dont know but now I am one of you's.

rechecked 28 I am.. so 28.

I haven't yet... I got diagnosed with a LD like when I was 5 or 6.
I think I got the wrong diagnoses. My Mom just told me they thought I did have Autism though
I also have hearing lost

I was diagnosed 20 years ago, circa 1988. I was 2 years old at the time. My mom noticed the signs immediately and took me to some specialist about it, she had told me.

A little over a year ago. "Classic Autism", albeit "high-functioning".

My IQ got me by during the school years, no matter how Autistic I was. Since I didn't want to socialize, and I'm a passive and well behaved person [who managed fine as long as I had structure and order], I never would have been picked up (it wasn't a problem for me). I had the usual hearing tests as I didn't answer the teachers many times (which came back normal), the IQ tests [that always came back high], and other assorted "pointers".

I think it was 6-7 years ago, I think I was 11, though my me and my mum always knew that there was something different with me.

I was identified a couple of years ago. No official diagnosis. Based on what you've said, I'd say I'm more HFA than AS. I thought the two were synonymous. I think of myself as AS, but extremely well adapted.

I was diagnosed in 1995 when I was almost 15.

What I was diagnosed with is a little more complicated. What they told my mother was that I was autistic with idiot-savant features. What they wrote on paper could be PDD-NOS, CNS disorder NOS, atypical autism, developmental disorder NOS, etc. (This was apparently because back then "autism" on its own meant "hopeless", and they didn't want to say "hopeless" or I wouldn't get the proper kind of funding or 'treatment'.) I also found a paper from around then that described me over time on a graph as low- to mid-functioning, but it was not a paper that was ever distributed to insurance companies, it was in the private notes of my psychiatrist and appeared to be a diagram he had drawn to explain something to my mother.

After some later misdiagnoses (some "instead of" autism, some "along with" autism) I was rediagnosed with PDD-NOS in late 1998 or early 1999 at the age of 18. Later in 1999, at the age of 19, my diagnosis was officially changed to autism, which is what it's stayed since. I was also diagnosed by an independent evaluator in 2002. No functioning level has been given, unless you count a score of 47 on an adaptive skills assessment done by having a staff person who'd known me several years fill out a questionnaire about me (lowest possible is 40, highest is 130, 100 is average -- like an IQ test but measuring something different). That was in May 2005 when I was 24.

I hope any of this is what you're looking for. I'll be 28 next month.

11 years ago.

am was first tested for autism at two,at hope hospital,but they said am could not have autism because the scans were not showing brain damage,they believed autism=brain damage only.
they gave mum and dad a load of severe behavioral terms instead to deal with which made am look like an evil little b*****d and be treated like one.
despite being on the severe end,having speech therapy and being special schooled,they both believed the doctor is always right and never bothered to get am reassessed,they found it easier to try and get rid of am into childrens homes since toddler age.
am was misdiagnosed again at late teenage age-but that at least got am on the spectrum,am was diagnosed at adult age as having classic autism with high complex needs,and another specialist who assessed am through sister gave the sub label 'explosive autism' as well,though dont class that as official.

as for HFAs,not all who would be classed as HFA are able to communicate well or live on own/without support,the same goes for aspies as well as there are both HF auties and aspies who really arent HF as the label says.
some HFAuties and aspies need residential or group or in own home-support,and recieve disability benefits because they cant work,at the complete opposite end-others might have their own company.