Age and appearance of symptoms

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I never knew they were symptoms, of course, but I was a confirmed non-socializer before I was five and stayed that way. My father (aspie as well, I think) changed jobs often, so I got to start out again at new schools fairly often. At sixteen I'd failed my first year of university and it got so bad I left home. Somewhere along the way I learned programming and made of it a way to stay afloat. Sometime during my twenties I got so confident that I married and had children. A few decades later I was starting to despair.

And then to top it all off, at 52 I came up with an aspergers diagnosis, Talk about being a glutton for punishment.

i had symptoms as a toddler. first day of pre-school, ( i know there's a thread for that but there is more coming) i remember clearly the line of tiles separating the classroom from the toilets. i remember what the toilets looked like, and spending a lot of time watching the teacher and hoping she would cross that line of tiles. when i asked my mother about it, she laughed and told me i had to be pulled out of preschool the first week, because i pooped in the middle of the classroom, and then it came back to me: the teacher had said: "noone goes to the toilets alone". so i waited until she went , she never went. accident happened. at home noone noticed anything special about me , then at 6 i went to school, got slapped on the first day for reading while the teacher told us a story. i was supposed to "listen"and i was following on the book as she spoke, and she called me repeatedly, but i said"just because i'm not looking at you doesn't mean i'm not listening", she came over and slapped me. i think i told those stories somewhere already, but they seem like signs to me. i was fine though, until i was 8, then i was not fine anymore. talking to nobody almost, no friends at all, watching kids in the schoolyard and wondering if i was very ugly or smelled really bad or what was wrong with me. i got slowly better until high school, had to be homeschooled then because i was really in bad shape, bullying had reached levels i couldn't stand anymore. then i went back to school and got better again. it goes by phases i think. depending on the environment.i'm not sure the AS gets better or worse, i think the environment pushes us too hard at times, and then we recover until the next occurence.

Me neither. I remember in kindergarten and primary school I was always trying to teach other children about stuff I was interested in, like animals. I never really understood why I did it, or that the other children weren't necessarily interested in being taught, until I discovered that I had AS and started reading about it.

0-5 years old: Moderate.
6-7 years old: Severe.
8-9 years old: Mild.
10-11 years old: Mild.
12-13 years old: Moderate.
14-15 years old: Severe.

I still have a severe form of Asperger's.

This describes my entire life beginning in 2nd grade and ending in 10th.