When did you first encounter the concept of "Aspergers&

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While it took me an additional 3 or so years to persue it, I first heard of/thought about AS as a genuine "somthing" that people could identify with when I read Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake... wherein one of our antiheroes went to "Asomthing University" - known by its students as "Aspergers U" for its focus on focus and not on socializing...

I loved that bit. I wish I coud have gone to school there...

I first heard about it when I was diagnosed at age 11. I was curious and my speech thereapist sat me down on our first meeting and we went over it with this book. I was curious to know more, but it didn't really click in till later on, years later in high school. I've always been excited to find other Aspies like me and now finding out more about AS and Autism and other spectrum disorders is one of my obsessions (albiet milder one). -Power Girl

About five days ago. I am still trying to figure things out, it's all sort of confusing still.

In 2002, after doing some random internet searches. Then I decided to ignore it. Went back to rescearching it in 2007, to the point of getting a diagnosis at the end of that year.

I too found out when I was diagnosed when I was 11. I don't think my Mum wanted me to know, but I was upset after my Mum highlighting negative things about me to the Speech Therapist, and crying, and she thought I thought she was taking me there as a punishment, so she told me a bit about it, but not enough, so I read into it online and stuff.
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I first heard about it when I was a teen. This other person hated me and was quite nasty to me. One day she pulled me aside and explained she was going to some self-improvement therapy of some vague kind. She was supposed to identify people she mistreated and apologize to them and explain why.

So she tells me she hates me because I am just like her sister, I walk like her sister, talk and say things like her sister, move like her sister and even dress apparently like her sister and as it happens, she hates her sister. I asked why she hated her sister and she tells me because her sister has Aspergers Syndrome and uses it as an excuse to get more attention or some crap.

I asked what Aspergers Syndrome was and she said it was a neurological condition that did not effect intelligence. I was not best pleased to be told I dressed like I had a neurological syndrome of some kind, I already had good reason to feel concerned about my "dress sense" (or more accurately lack thereof). So I did not attach any significance to the comments beyond the normal curiosity I always feel when someone mentions a medical condition I am not familiar with, and becoming even more anxious about how I dressed.

Turns out that sister-hater was quite the diagnostician.

I first heard the name Asperger's, in around 2002. My daughter, who was in college, complained about a guy on campus that she found annoying. She said that she was especially annoyed, because he seemed to get away with things unfairly, just because of his DX of AS. Ironically, in just a few more years, we were both diagnosed with it!

I put a name to my differences towards the rest of my peers near the end of my senior year of high school.

Me it was about 4 years ago when I was reading up some famuse people on wilipedia. I thought it was intresting. Then 2/12 years ago came up again. I did not pretend that I did not have some of the traits. Intresting trip from there.

1990 at school.

But since then no-one's really explained to me properly or clearly what it means.

I knew what autism was when I was ten or so; but I didn't hear about Asperger's until I was about 19.

I knew since a long time that Asperger was a mild form of autism, that some genious had this.

A few months ago I read Mark Haddon's book. It was a little disturbing but I didn't care that much... Later a girl asked me if I ever was diagnosed as gifted. I didn't really care...

For like 3 weeks I heard Daniel Tammet speak at french radio. It's not that I recognized me in, but I simply had to go on Wikipedia to learn more...

And by reading absolutely all that I could find on the Web about Asperger, by interesting me on my young years, by watching vidéos, by looking on every "psychological disorder" I became quite sure that Asperger was the only thing that really "described me". And I'm here...

I first heard of Aspergers when listening to a radio interview featuring Tony Attwood in 2006. I was stunned to hear him mention many things that seemed to describe me perfectly although there were other things that didn't & possibly because of that, I didn't follow it up until 2008.

I think I was 12 or 13. I was diagnosed at like 3 years old. At first I wished that my mom would have told me earlier, but I don't know if it would have helped.

I remember going to the psychologist when I was younger, only time I was ever actually analyzed as a person by one (and I was probably too young to make any sense). All the following times I was tested with math and stuff like that.

I have known the word since I was diagnosed, but it was only recently I started caring about it enough to know what it means rather than try to use it as an excuse.

I first heard of it when I was around 12 or so, when I had a friend with it, but I was ignorant of what exactly it entailed. I didn't think that there was a big deal to it, because he seemed so normal to me (while everyone else seemed so abnormal!) - I could talk with him very easily, we understood each other very well, and we thought in such a similar way. Of course, the fact that we could communicate to that degree probably was the oddest thing about him! It was one of only two times in my life I've ever felt connected with anyone. I feel very silly in hindsight - if I'd known then what Asperger's actually meant it would have been obvious that I had it; we got along so well because we were so alike, we understood each other because we each knew the other's mind worked similarly. It's a real shame I fell out of contact with him, he was great to be around.