Who suspected you were autistic?

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My ex wife suspected I might have Aspergers. She was a special needs supply teacher. I don't think anybody else has ever suspected I had any particular psyche or neurological condition.

No one in my family really suspected autism. My stepmom says she could tell right when she first saw me that something was different about me but she doesn't specify what. I think once it was diagnosed, she most readily accepted it as making sense. Before she came into the picture, I was labeled with non-specific developmental delays but that's as much of a diagnosis my family ever got and once I caught up to my peers, that was the end of it for them up until the train wreck that was middle school. But it was the school who said I needed to see a psychologist and then that psychologist referred me to the behavioral specialist who diagnosed me. Funnily enough, my bio mom was (and still is) a special education teacher but she never seemed to suspect there was something "wrong" with me. I figure it was denial. Even now she still has trouble accepting it sometimes. It kind of depends on her mood/if it suits her for whatever reason.

Both my parents although, according to them "you have the traits and symptoms" (and a diagnosis) but "you're not autistic" but you have "a hint of autism"

My nursery teacher noticed that my behaviour was very aloof and that I wasn't communicating in an age appropriate way. Fortunately she knew quite a bit about autism and referred me to the educational psychologist (and my sister, who was referred because she was developmentally ahead of all the other children).

I was then referred to a specialist who agreed that I was autistic and I was diagnosed by age 3. At the time they didn't know what my prognosis was so I was diagnosed with classical autism but that was changed to Aspergers when I went to primary school.

I was very fortunate to be diagnosed so early. I can't imagine what it must be like to go through your whole life with this condition and not get any help. My earliest memories are a haze of frustration at how confusing and chaotic my environment seemed and I was just a toddler.

It often makes me wonder what I would have been like if I was diagnosed much later. I don't think I would be nearly as capable as I am now. I owe a lot of my functioning level to my early intervention.

For me it was my internet friend, she was misdiagnosed with Asperger's syndrome a few months prior to our meeting and her sister and her were telling me about Asperger's (this was before they realized it has been misdiagnosed) and I bluntly told them that Asperger's probably wasn't real because I thought everyone behaved this way, I supposed this prompted her to believe that I had autism. A few days later she kept dropping subtle hints about it. I'm still not sure if I have it, though.

I did have lots of problems in school, but no one guessed the actual issue until I realized it at 32.

My mother has told me she had suspicions about me being an aspie; why she didn't get me proper help until 18 years into my life, I have no idea why.

The teachers at the preschool I went to when I was three. My mom took me to a specialist shortly after and that is when I was diagnosed.

The first person who suspected it was a therapist I was seeing to treat depression. That wasn't until I was an adult because only low functioning or nonverbal boys were typically diagnosed with autism. Asperger's didn't become widely known until the 2000's, and it was around that same time that autism was recognized as a spectrum, plus that girls can be autistic as well. I did have epilepsy when I was a baby that somehow went away by the time I was a toddler, so I went to preschool at a school for special needs students, but it was obvious that I was high functioning, so I went to mainstream schools from elementary school on to high school where I graduated on time and with a 3.3 GPA. There's nothing that school could have done for me past preschool because they were more for those too low functioning for district special ed programs.

I was actually my dad's girlfriend who first suspected. Everyone else in my family just thought I was strange. She had a friend with a son who was diagnosed and apparently I showed some similar signs. She still won't explain what those signs were. So annoying when people say there's something off about you but won't elaborate!

My parents were in denial because I taught myself to read at 3-4 years of age, and could read at a college level by the first grade, so obviously I was just "smart." A family friend tried to tell them I was probably autistic but they didn't believe him because I was ~too smart~ to be autistic.

Most of my teachers knew something was up, though. And I ended up for one year in a class for students who were having trouble academically but weren't intellectually disabled, which was the best class ever because the teachers would set up lessons based on our interests (I know we took a trip to Kelso WA because of my interest in Mt St Helens' eruption, and I also recall someone visiting with a service dog because I was obsessed with service dogs for awhile). This is... probably not relevant to the question. But anyway, yeah, lots of people suspected something. At least one person identified autism as the something. My parents refused to have me evaluated.

an interesting incident happened today, i went to the shop to buy some stuff for my mother (its the shop down the street) some random lady stopped me and asked me, i said yes, she said she could tell because of the way i walked? things like no arm swinging, looking down and a sort of odd way to walk, she wanted to know what traits i had because she suspected her kid had it so wanted to know clear symptoms........weird, awkward, and i didn't know it was THAT obvious. well i hope her kid gets what he needs if they do indeed have it.

The first person to suspect that I was autistic was a youth group leader at a church that my grandma took me too. She noticed that I didn't socialize with the kids very well, so she told my grandma that I should get tested for asperger's. My grandma told my dad about it and he got mad at the church lady for saying that. But years later, I found out that the church lady was also a special Ed teacher. I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist a couple years later because of a bunch of temper tantrums I threw.