Age at diagnosis

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I was diagnosed at 8 in 1996

Fun fact: I was diagnosed at 7 in 2006.

I was diagnosed at age 16.

Only recently at 37. I suspected it for a while, but wasn't ready for the diagnosis.

I was diagnosed with OCD at age 12 (or so), but the more I learned about OCD, the less I could relate.

I was 35. I suspected and started researching in when I was 31.

Late 20s. But it wasn't the diagnosis that was bad. It was having to hit rock bottom, be kicked out of the group home and left alone in the hospital a few days before Christmas before getting diagnosed that was bad.

My diagnosis was confirmed to me in an appointment a week after I turned 30. I'd guess the assessors had probably come to a conclusion more than a week before.

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I was diagnosed this year at the age of 38. I am 39 now.

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 9 and autism at 30. Doctors always noted down my clear symptoms of autism, but only one really suspected it and never pursued it. I think that in the 90's they mixed both ADHD and autism even more up than now. But I knew that I have it already some years before, as I read a book about someone's life with Asperger.

I'll note:

● Asperger's Syndrome was added to the DSM in 1994 then absorbed into the Autism Spectrum in 2013.
● Asperger's Syndrome and ADHD have many attributes in common_●


The distinction might have been blurry in the 90's.

Now I am confused XD. I have all of the mentioned...
Like I have a wide variety of interests, but other topics, mostly those popular with other people, not at all.
I can concentrate on one interest for some time, than switch to the next, or have them simultanously in my mind and activities.
I can't stick to routin too well, except I need to have some routines, like when to wash my hair. I also need to plan stuff ahead of time and make sure I know where to be when.

Are there more obvious differences?

I'm ASD2 and ADHD-C.

Re: Routines.
I'm scattered and have no rhyme or reason in my own way of doing things, but if another person tries to interrupt or change what I'm doing so it's more structured, more "them", or more NT, I freak the heck out.

It's an inability to stick to routine on my own terms (no tracking apps, etc), but it's also a rigid adherence to doing things my way whatever that way may be, without much flexibility for external input.

My partner said once that I'm so "low maintenance" it makes me "high maintenance" .... because my wants and needs seem casual and disordered, but there's no way he can interfere or change any of it without me melting down.




Re: Interests - I have a wide variety of very narrow interests.

I know it is possible to have both ASD and ADHD...and that boggles my mind...but to go any deeper I defer to other WP members that have more in-depth knowledge than I do.

I am currently undiagnosed. The closest I've come is: r/o Autism Spectrum Disorder - Veteran appears to meet diagnostic criteria but has not been formally assessed.

I suffer from the same paradoxical relationship with routines. I have trouble establishing a daily routine, but I do have a very specific way of doing things and any disruption can quickly escalate to anger/rage. If it gets particularly bad, just refraining from self-injury can require substantial effort.