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Your gender and age of diagnosis (for Asperger's)
Male and diagnosed before age 10 8%  8%  [ 7 ]
Male and diagnosed between ages 11-18 12%  12%  [ 11 ]
Male and diagnosed in adulthood 16%  16%  [ 15 ]
Male and still undiagnosed (diagnosis is/would have been necessary) 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
Male and probably AS, but no diagnosis necessary (ever) 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
Female and diagnosed before age 10 2%  2%  [ 2 ]
Female and diagnosed between ages 11-18 13%  13%  [ 12 ]
Female and diagnosed in adulthood 25%  25%  [ 23 ]
Female and still undiagnosed (diagnosis is/would have been necessary) 7%  7%  [ 6 ]
Female and probably AS, but no diagnosis necessary (ever) 5%  5%  [ 5 ]
For everyone else to view the results... 3%  3%  [ 3 ]
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HowlingMad1992
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25 Jan 2009, 3:15 pm

Male and diagnosed before age 10



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25 Jan 2009, 3:57 pm

Male, diagnosed this year at age 28.


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25 Jan 2009, 4:14 pm

I got a semi-official diagnosis at age 18 1/2, but I got the official diagnosis at age 19; I'm a female.
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25 Jan 2009, 5:04 pm

i cant even remember the age it was either 5 or 6.... maybe 7 , probably 6



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25 Jan 2009, 5:16 pm

female, diagnosed at 11


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25 Jan 2009, 5:22 pm

Male, and given an AS label at 26.



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25 Jan 2009, 11:21 pm

It seems that there are a high percentage of females that were diagnosed in adulthood.



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27 Jan 2009, 7:55 am

Male, diagnosed age 20 (about two weeks ago).


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27 Jan 2009, 5:36 pm

Female, diagnosed age 11.

Why are there so many of these threads, all with exactly the same topic? Can't we condense them all into one thread and make it a sticky since everyone seems so fascinated by this topic?


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27 Jan 2009, 5:58 pm

Female, diagnosed with AS at age 22.