What age was when you found out you was AS or other disorder

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I was 27, it was this summer. No one suspected when I was a kid. I was just brainy, dreamy and a bit odd. Suffered depression, anxiety and OCD in my teens. Never belonged with anyone normal. Then I had my son, and he was diagnosed with atypical autism at age 4 and after fighting the realization he wasn't OK in other people's eyes I had to face that in that case neither was I. My father (who's very supportive in addition to being a psychiatrist) got me an evaluation with specialists and I was diagnosed with Asperger's, Tourette's and trichotillomania. No OCD though. I think my obsessive and ritualistic behavior is just as appropriately covered by my autism diagnosis.

I was first diagnosed when I was 18. It was during my freshman year of college, while I was in CBT therapy for my OCD.
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I was 16 when I was diagnosed. I had problems in school and the counselor thought I had asperger. I had read about it before and I thought some of it applied to me but I never thought more about it.

I was 19. Those 6 years ago AS wasn’t known as widely as it is currently, not in my country at least because although I didn’t read too many foreign sources on this then, the amount of any knowledge on the topic available in the Polish area of the net was EXTREMALY limited, having typed “Asperger” in the browser resulted in it spitting out maybe a dozen or so mentions about it (not counting one board for parents), in that time it was just getting into public awareness in here.

My brother was diagnosed when he was 8 years old. That would have made me 13 when my parents saw that I was had AS too. They didn't take me to the psychiatrist because they didn't see the problems I was having at school as I was hiding that. Sosince I was 13, I've known that I was a little like my brother.

I was officially diagnosed when I was 24, or just a few months ago. My tourette's was diagnosed when I was 23.

I'm married, I have a life of my own. My parents live over 500 miles away. Nothing much changed after my diagnoses. Mom stopped getting mad at me for my obsessions and playing with younger kids. Instead she hooked me up with a 13 year old who had Down's syndrome. Before, she was trying to take the effort to understand me and she knew I had something but didn't know what it was.

I was 10 when I was diagnosed. Although I think my parents were trying to get a diagnosis for me since I was 8.