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08 Jan 2009, 1:47 am

How old were you when you first discovered that your being different from most others was due to an inborn (neurological) difference?

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08 Jan 2009, 1:49 am

22.

I at first thought I had dyslexia, and there is a neurological difference for dyslexics too.

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08 Jan 2009, 1:51 am

44 Years old. I wasn't diagnosed until last year.

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08 Jan 2009, 1:58 am

I self diagnosed with NLD a few months ago, at age 46, but was quite sure I had a neurological difference at age 44.

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08 Jan 2009, 2:01 am

59, but I had to learn everything else first.

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08 Jan 2009, 2:02 am

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08 Jan 2009, 2:10 am

I think I was in my teens. I discovered if I had my head cut open and had a new brain put in so I would be like everyone else, I wouldn't be me. I wouldn't have my obsessions and I wouldn't know trivia, I wouldn't have a great of memory. I would lose my gifts. I don't think I would be into computer or video games all the time then. It was also at the time I started to accept being different and didn't want to change it.
Yes I have something but I have gotten better as I got older. Six years ago I was worse.

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08 Jan 2009, 2:20 am

46 when I realised it was neurological,although I'd always felt different since I was 8.

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08 Jan 2009, 3:34 am

46... in 2008.
prior to that it had never occurred to me it could be neurological. my perpetual internal catch-cry after any social interactions was always "what's wrong with me, what's wrong with me, what's wrong with me?" Followed by obsessive analysis of every social exchange i tried to partake in.

an entire lifetime of wondering why there was an inability in me to "gel" with others in social situations.

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08 Jan 2009, 4:10 am

I had my hunches for a long time before I knew what AS was..I cant really put my finger on it though.

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08 Jan 2009, 4:24 am

11 apparently (I've always said I was diagnosed at 12, but mum recently told me I was 11)

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08 Jan 2009, 4:37 am

millie wrote:

LOL< exactly. I was actually doing that when I came on tonight.

I learned a few months ago, at 29

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08 Jan 2009, 4:57 am

18.
However everyone else discovered this when I was 4

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08 Jan 2009, 5:51 am

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08 Jan 2009, 5:55 am

43

Prior to that I put all my differences down to parental upbringing, and food intolerances, ( both of which are factors, but are not, I now realise, the whole story ). It was an enormous relief to find out about AS/Aspergers, and it explained so many things, not only "me", but stuff about life in general.

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08 Jan 2009, 6:32 am

I found myself different under 10.But in my teens it really bacame a problem.Finally I found myself AS two months ago.

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