I can't believe I don't remember this!

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Mum just told me the story of how I found out I had AS, and I remember nothing of it!

Apparently, when I was 11 I had been another counselor (one out of many) in an attempt to find out why I was being bullied at school. The counselor had arranged meetings with me, mum, and dad, and she had deduced that it wasn't my family at fault for the bullying. Then she mentioned she'd read a book that rang a bell, and lent it to my parents to take home. Apparently I took it off the bookshelf, ran upstairs, read the entire thing in an hour or so and ticked off all the various questionaires (I was an avid reader), then ran downstairs and announced that I had AS.

I can't believe I don't even remember this. So many people here remember and cherish/feel strongly about when they first found out they had AS, and I don't even remember my own discovery of it! I had always thought that I was first diagnosed when I was taken to see a psychologist. Am I possibly the only person who doesn't?

Wow... even as I type this vague recollections are coming back. I must have had a false memory all this time.

That's cool, reading that book and doing all the questionnaires yourself at 11

got diagnosed at age of 12...and they never really telled me about it i readet it up on net at age of 15 what it means...those psycologist got his license out of cheerious packet

That's a cool story, sunshower. It happened a while back, so it's not too amazing that you don't recall all the details. Certain memories just don't seem to stick quite as well, you know?

I think that many of us have similar mythologies when it comes to finding out about AS.

I'm still relatively new to all this. I only found out about AS two months ago. So I remember it quite well. It started with some online tests, then a couple of books, and then it hit me like a ton of bricks, explained my entire life, and rearranged my world-view. I've still not yet seen a professional about it, but I am scheduled to in the near future. Maybe ten years from now, I can look back on this time in my life with nostalgia.

Cool. I wish they would have told us about my PDD. But sadly we just got services over the summer.

I don't remember much of my diagnosis either, I remember asking on the day of my diagnosis whether I got diagnosed with it (I wasn't there during the diagnosis), but I can't even remember even being the possibility that I might have Asperger's.

For me it was getting diagnosed, and being told I had AS, but nothing about what it meant. I didn't know anything about AS and refused to believe that I had it. After a while I began to notice that I was really really different, and I still thought I couldn't have this thing called AS. Slowly, I began to look into what AS was, and to see how it affected me if it did, and at about the same time I accepted it, I ended up here,

I don't even remember the day I got diagnosed.

I don't remember my diagnosis but I remember when my mum told me about it. Quite vividly, too.

It was actually shortly after I started to feel that I was different from everyone else, I remember the first time I got that feeling was when I was on a class trip and everyone was in a playground playing with each other while I was walking on a rope by myself.

That's quite interesting!

i cant remember when i was diagnosed all i remember was that i went to a special school for a couple of weeks and the general layout of it
but i was like 6 or something
i didnt know i had it either i havent got a clue when i was actually told about it and im sure when i was i didnt understand it

My mother suspected a "mild form of autism" in the late eighties (without any knowledge of AS). She took me to see a couple of doctors during that time with the suggestion, and they told her no. I have seen a few school councilors to help me with my problems in school (I visited them regularly). I have seen various people in the field of psychiatry. Nobody gave any clues. I think they were all looking in the wrong places.

Out of all those people who I had seen as a child, one person over the internet a couple of years ago, whom I hadn't known more than about 2 weeks had told me, "You seem like you have Asperger's."

I've done a lot of research since then, and have actually seen a couple of professionals who were -positive- I have AS (even though they don't know me, fancy that!).

I actually want to contact a few specific individuals from my childhood, and see how they remembered me as, so I can be even more conclusive than I am now!