When did your problems start?

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I've all but given up hope of getting an official confirmation or rebuttal over diagnosis through an assessment. Unless my psych team are totally ,rather than partially dumb, there's enough there to suggest something untoward going on on the social front. It's just that for whatever reason they don't want to go down that road.

I am not even sure at 60 with so much water having gone under the bridge that a diagnosis,if I got one, would make a big difference.
There is an a intellectual need to pin to explain how I am and to pin it on to something.

In terms of an unofficial confirmation or rebuttal or suggestions as to what it could be I 've got here and many "experts by experience".

Umm...

Who did your sister murder, may I ask?

You dont have to answer if you dont want to. But I cant stop myself from asking.

I guess I'm not an aspie because I could control my urge not to ask such a personal and intrusive question

I am a diagnosed aspie and I can control it.

I realise I was unfairly stereotyping and it was intended as sarcasm. The reason this website works so well is users are very open about their problems with autism but there are questions which cross a boundary and have no relation to autism. I'm pretty sure NP asked a question that was on some peoples mind but IMO the question has no relevance here.

I am afraid I cannot say. We (my family) believe she's innocent, though. But that's to be expected considering our relationship to her.

I knew I was much different than others by the age of 8. But I was accepted by my classmates during that time, so it was not an issue. Everything changed when I moved out of state to a new school at the age of 11.

I wish my mother had a memory as to whether I was active in-utero.

I'm guessing she was so relieved that I was finally born--so she just sloughed it off LOL.

She doesn't remember most of my milestones, either--except when I started to talk at age 5 1/2.

Am I missing something here or is it just humour.

She doesn't remember what happened while she was pregnant.

She was preoccupied with me after I was born, apparently.

I don't remember or know exactly when my parents knew something was up. Because I was really young. I'm guessing when I was 1 or 2 my parents knew something was up. They notice I wasn't developing normally like other 1 or 2 years old and started talking. I was developing everything else just fine. But just couldn't talk at all. I was nonverbal. So my parents took me to the hospital to see what was wrong. And it was that I have Autism. I was actually officially diagnosed with it on the day 9/11 happened. I don't remembered what happened since I was only 2 when first diagnosed. I actually didn't even start talking till I was 5.

Me too even if it's so tempting.

Sometimes, I "control" it well. Other times, I don't.

It really depends on my mood--and my state of "hyperness."

My mother is like that as well. And my father.

We have videos, but they're unplayable now.

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I never really had any definable problems as a child, nothing my parents have mentioned stands out, but I think I was rather sly and sneaky. I know I had a contempt for rules and people with authority. I often vandalised my primary school for the thrill but maintained a 'good girl' persona for the teachers. I remember having fits of unbearable rage, too. I would feel this pressure building up when something didn't go my way and would just scream so loudly into a pillow my throat would be sore after. I also broke a lot of things unintentionally. I was actually a very confident child, but by the end of my time at my first school I had lost my best friend and didn't know how to win her back, or gain a new one. My true problems started after around twelve.

My mother DOES remember thinking I was a boy during her pregnancy because she grew uglier. Apparently, being pregnant with a girl is supposed to make you prettier.