poll for women on the spectrum about diagnosis age

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I havent been formally diagnosed yet but I know for sure I have AS. I had my "ah ha!" moment at the beginning of this year.

In the past I've been diagnosed with ADHD and major depression. From 2009 until recently I was on just about every anti depressant you can think of with no results. I ended up being a zombie. I really don't remember two whole years of my life. The only medication that ever helped was adderall.

my brother was diagnosed in 2008 at the age of 12 and I never resolution thought to compare myself to him because we are so different. pretty much night and day. But now it all makes sense.

Right now I'm working on finding a place that diagnoses adults.

Diagnosed a few months ago with AS at 31. No official diagnoses before that, but social anxiety was suggested last year by a psychologist and two psychiatrists, none of whom specialised in ASD.

Diagnosed with Asperger in 2012, At 31

In 2010 diagnosed with several personality disorders / and ADD

In 1990 diagnosed by schoolpsychiatrist with 'spoiled and attentionseeking / hypocondriac'

Currently working on a formal diagnosis at age 20, though I can recall being about 12 and my doctor asking my father if I had ever been screened for an ASD. My father freaked out at him then ("Are you calling her ret*d?!"). When I went back last year to ask about getting screened, he said, and I quote, "Yeah, 'bout time."

I was diagnosed with aspergers at age 4, in 2000.

Yay a graph! I want to see that

In 1994, I was diagnosed with Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder. A few years later, I was diagnosed with Psychotic Disorder NOS, Bipolar II, Cyclothymia, dysthymia and PTSD. I was officially diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of 34.

I have recently discovered that the doctors suspected I had ASD back in the mid 1990s.

I'm 19 and I was just diagnosed with Aspergers just a little bit ago, as well as Anxiety, Depression, a Math disability, and minor OCD(sidewalk cracks, straightening things, double light switches, ect.)

Would have been nice to have been diagnosed while I was still IN school! I might have actually done well if I'd had the help I needed!
*sigh*

My parents took me to see someone when I was 2 but they were told that I was "just clever" and they went on thinking that way. I was diagnosed at 15 when my mum forced me to see a child psychiatrist because she was worried about me. The psychiatrist had a long chat with both me and my mum and came to the conclusion I have Asperger's; in fact, he recognised it almost immediately (probably cos I spent the whole time avoiding his eyes and speaking in a monotonous voice) and he pressed for more details like about whether I had obsessions, etc but he did not say his conclusion until near the end. Everyone at school knew I was odd, very much including the teachers, and people just simply thought it's just me.

I was diagnosed in 2001 at around my mid-late 20's after my body and mind started deteriorating and was kicked out of a home and left to die in the hospital a week before Christmas. Before that I was diagnosed with "schizophrenia form disorder with learning disability" at around 13, but no one really believed I had schizophrenia including me. They did however, think I was behaviorally dysfunctional and blamed my parents, who raised my brother and me in a non-violent and very functional household, for allowing me to get away with bad behavior I hardly ever displayed when I was still living with them! I was moved from one home to another every few months at least, having to cope with new staff and share houses or even rooms with people with chronic schizophrenia and OCD, how could I NOT lose it at some point??? They were always switching us around, and when one staff member I really liked and was like a big sister to me left and I never saw her again, that's when I really got bad. I wish I could sue the people who ran those homes for the hell I was put through, but NO! Not even a written apology, everything was and is STILL all my fault.

The summers I spent in the homes were the worst. I'd be in and out of the hospital constantly, and the doctors would make me take all these new drugs that messed me up so badly I couldn't eat or sleep or think or sit still. Every day was pure hell and I hate them all because of that And I hate the summer because it reminds me so much of that. I know it's all in the past, but...

I was first diagnosed with very high function autism through the school as part of an effort to find out what was going on with me. That was when I was about 9, in the very early 80's.
in a school of about 600-800 kids I don't recall anybody else like me, and back then that's about how the statistics ran.

I was rediagnosed Aspergers in 1993 after a medical non-compliance (as in :No I will not do this test) issue got ridiculously complicated by 2 bad psychiatrists and several MD's with more ego than common sense. I had a year of therapy for ptsd and the asperger's therapy was mostly getting to know myself and then Theory of Mind, and "diplomacy"...time extremely well spent I might add. I still have issues with not getting medical treatment over a strong avoidance of being handled by strangers, or anybody, if I am not in a mood to deal with it.
This fall an aspergers specialty therapist reaffirmed the diagnosis and I am currently sorting things out with a psychiatrist because things got wierd this year and there are old head injuries involved. I think I am finally starting to sort out a lot of it myself now, thanks to new meds and a conversation with mom. I have been reading WP casually for years and not participating hardly at all. My participation is probably thanks to the psychiatrist/meds working.
wrong diagnosis'...depression, bipolar. I do apparently have the inattentive kind of ADD, likely acquired (injury) and not inborn. I am still not totally sold on that one. And ptsd.

i have still not gotten an official diagnosis but my mom and aunt diagnosed me a few years ago and this year (29, 30 in November) i finally started reading up on AS and diagnosed myself that i saw a lot of things that i do, or have done in my life.

I was diagnosed with aspergers in 2011, at age 23. I have also been diagnosed with tourettes, OCD, Sensory processing, and social anxiety disorder. I was born in 1987.

I was diagnosed when I was four. My mom was interested in autism so she caught my symptoms early.