How old were u when u knew?

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

51: selfdx at WP, 25 December 2007, confirmation by 15 March 2008

finally decided around 15 November 2007: it cannnot be psycho-traumatic, it must be deeper
went for schizoid or schizo-typal
(but that still only PD, not 'pervasive' ; but even that would still come under the traumatic-heading...


O, and i love all those signatures & avatars, they are (all) sooooh telling
and one signature line i have always read with deepl(y) benevolent envy:

YOURS, pluto

never even had that particular will myself; first very apt from&about quote predx-me: NO VOLITION

ps <(: o )n a more personal third party note: me like! & my doggie arrow like *woof!,snifffff*

& i do miss my arrow, who has not been quite able quite yet to find me here xCMx

I thought there was something 'different about my mind, maybe, if that's possible' when I was about... 13-14 years old perhaps.

I knew there really can be something different with your brain somewhere between spring and summer 2006, at age 17-18, when I discovered autistic people can/learn to speak and was identified as 'autistic, either HFA or AS' right on spot by the second professional I went so see during the beginning of 2007.

At about 8 or 9.

I first realised I was different when I was 9 years old but I didn't know about AS until I was 19 (diagnosed at 21)

50 - assuming that my upcoming evaluation returns the expected results. (I've suspected since my teens that I might be wired differently - didn't know about AS until I was in my 40s.)

I just got diagnosed this summer so 13. However I have always known something was different about me just not what.

I was a kid long before AS was named and described and become known in the U.S. However, I had always sensed I was not like most other people. I was verbally precocious (little professor) and had very obsessive attachment to my interests. I was not socially apt. I later became aware I was an aspie through various questionairres and when I participated in an MRI study one of the doctors thought he saw some brain anomalies which suggested autism and asp to him.

It was a bit uncomfortable when I was a kid, knowing I was "different" and living at a time when differences were not well tolerated. "Different" people were considered crazy or unbalanced.

ruveyn

I first heard of AS last year. I saw a streaming video of someone I knew from a different forum. He was stimming and said he had AS. I don't stim, so when someone suggested I might have AS, I was skeptical. I was diagnosed in July.

I was 50. Up until that point, I thought it was all psychological. What a relief!

Self dx at 20. I knew I was different long before that, but I couldn't quite put my finger on exactly what was different about me until I was 20.

I got diagnosed when I was 13, but I have always felt different.

Somewhere around 9 or 10.

It was during my first day in kindergarten when I first began to realize that I was different from other people, or that other people were different from me. I was about five then, and fifty-three years later I found out the reason.

I was dxed at 11, and first heard of it at 9. I can't exactly remember when I first had an idea but my mum told me when I was 10 I asked her why everyone thought different from me.

raycmy, you didn't answer the question, did you?