11 Jul 2006, 12:13 pm
I'm 38. This year I found out I have Aspergers. I'm fine with it. Lots of things fall into place. Now I'm busy turning back all the things I tried to adjust to 
12 Jul 2006, 2:59 pm
My birthday is also November 16, that's creepy, 3 here and how many more? Welcome to the twilight zone. Many born in November too.
But I'm not 33, I'm 46, and have known I was different since I was a kid, but was scared of the idea, so I denied it. When I was a teenager I could accept being exentric.
I'm 42, born November 17. EDIT: Oops. I'm not 42, I'm 43. Brainfart.
I was a weirdo in school, and had social troubles at work. I finally found out about Aspergers because my son was diagnosed. I just finally got diagnosed (today!) so that I could get accommodations at my new school. I'm finally going for my bachelor degree.
Last edited by Anna on 13 Jul 2006, 9:14 pm, edited 5 times in total.
13 Jul 2006, 5:29 pm
13 Jul 2006, 8:18 pm
16 Jul 2006, 8:43 pm
17 Jul 2006, 9:25 am
Hi,
I'm 39 and have only recently been diagnosed. Yeah, I reckon it's had a fairly large impact on my life - some for the better and some not so i guess. One of my daughters also has the condition but she's only 14 so will undoubtedly adapt accordingly (although we share many hobbies and pastimes).
I'm glad I know now tho... Square peg and all that!
18 Jul 2006, 9:47 am
Well, I finally decided I should check this thread out as I'm now just 8 days away from that dreaded milestone. I just wanted to find a thread where I'd still be the youngest person. It is good to know that not everyone on WP is all school-age, I definitely agree that there are huge generational differences between people with AS in our generation, and those born earlier.
If I would say anything about my age and how it relates to AS, I really do wish I had known
about it earlier - like when my parents were frantically trying to find out what was wrong with me at age 8, taking me to child psychiatrists and whoever they thought could help. I guess back then that they only had textbook definitions of AS to work with and figured that I could make eye contact, so scrap that idea.
To have even had some idea that there was something like AS going on with me at an earlier age would have helped me to avoid making some of the downright bloody stupid mistakes that I've made in my life, some of which have forced me to switch careers more than once in my life already. I had planned to have much more stability and security in my life by this age than I do now. With a bit more anger management and a better understanding of my limitations and how to overcome them, I might be doing a bit more now than just rotting away in some key-punching job that pays the rent, feeds me and allows for the odd bit of recreation on the weekend.
On the positive side though, I think that not knowing kind of meant pushing myself to adapt to the real world to a certain extent, to realise that no skills are entirely impossible for Aspies to learn, just a LOT harder. I don't know if younger Aspies today are going to
learn those skills in quite the same way, but I don't want to start getting the whole well-in-MY-day mentality about it. I think only time will tell. 
