What Symptoms Led You To Be Diagnosed?

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Eccentricities, poor social skills, lack of eye contact, I have a hard time doing what others want.
When I was a kid, I had the special interest and I couldn't hold still. I had a difficult time doing what others wanted me to do, wouldn't mind, wanted to do my own thing. I was diagnosed, originally, with hyperactivity and given Ritalin. AS wasn't in the DSM and Autism was still considered to be more extreme than what I exhibited. There was still no place for all of us kids who were in the grey area to go.

Speech delay. I didn't talk much, until I was 4.

Poor eye-contact

Obsessive interests.

Poor internal executive function.

I was diagnosed at the age of 5 and a half, which is very unusual, for a female on the higher end of the spectrum.

I was much more extreme in my early childhood, so much of AS traits were garnered from records of how I used to behave at home and school in my early childhood. More broadly, all the symptoms that led to my diagnosis (at the age of 18) were:

Obsessive interests - but easing off when I approached my teens
Meltdowns and tantrums - early childhood only
Social awkwardness/withdrawal
Inability to relate to my peers
Sensory issues - which aren't so bad now
Problems with non-verbal language, ie. reading facial expressions and understanding social cues
Underdeveloped body language
Poor coordination
Tendency to line up my toys instead of play with them (as a child...obv)
Inability to tolerate changes in routine - mainly in my earlier years. That's why I always hated family holidays...
Dislike of physical contact such as hugs - this has mostly worn off now

I was (when younger) unable to read body language or intentions well. I finally simulated this skill empirically when I was in my thirties. A normal kid can do it at four years old.

ruveyn

Don't laugh Hodor, I tried to ask this girl out in high school and when we were talking I corrected her grammer at least 4 times while asking her out. . My friends told me they wished I would shut up so they could use a micrphone and a hidden speaker so they could talk for me while I moved my lips like Mr. Ed or a chinese kung-fu film star.

After looking through my papers, it looked like it was mostly due to my poor social skills that led me to be diagnosed and my anxiety and OCD and "behavior problems."

because i'm weird and don't do/say things in the way people seem to find acceptable, and i don't seem to care about it.

failing school / school refusal, not responding to people, "lack of empathy", sleep issues, clothing issues, touch issues.

Not diagnosed, but what lead me to discover AS was one social disaster too many that made me start questioning why I kept failing to have positive interactions with others.

Eh sorry, I wasn't laughing at the fact you correct(ed) people's grammar, as I used to do that too. It's the spelling mistake (grammer for grammar) that made me chuckle a little.

Now I'm being fussy. Permission to slap me with a fish granted

All of them

Being kicked out of an internship because I was too focused on what I was doing to stop and make eye contact, or engage in small talk. Theoretically, I could still return to that internship, but I don't really want to because it wasn't a paid internship.

Not getting hired after going on job interviews, even though I look great on paper.

Sensory issues-I have to cut most clothing tags off before I can wear something.

Coming across as "rude" and not having a variety of facial expressions, not smiling enough.

Mine was a recent thing, I had not even heard of Aspergers until a social worker suggested I might have it when I went to see her trying to figure out why I have issues with communication, social anxiety, not being able to read facial expressions or body language.

I had a really bizarre psychiatrist. I knew long before she did, but I also knew if I'd suggest it, I'd never get diagnosed because she thought the patient was always wrong. So I just waited basically. She was just blind for not seeing it earlier. What symptom? None really, just being strange in her eyes.

Most of my symptoms were discovered by the school

Being ''frightened'' when I first started school (wouldn't play with the other children, ect)
Had anxiety attacks at school in the first 3 years (screaming temper tantrums, and crying at the drop of a hat)
Scared of fire-drills
Last in the class with reading and maths
Got confused at changes

At home the only symptom seemed to be that I couldn't cope when my brother had friends round. But now my mum thinks it might be because perhaps I wanted to play with them but my brother not letting me. So, no, I didn't have much Aspie problems at home when I was little, but had more Aspie problems at school. Then as I got older, it went the other way round - I had Aspie problems at home but not much at school (except the loss of friends, sadly).