For people diagnosed as CHILDREN

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I am just wondering.....not a day passes for me where something about autism doesn't go through my head. I wonder if this is because I am just recently diagnosed this year. So I am curious, for people diagnosed as children who are now older teens or adults: do you think about it every day also, or is it something that never really crosses your mind anymore?

When I'm active on wrongplanet, then yes. Otherwise, no. Although generally I only posting here when I have been having lots of Aspie moments.

I'm reminded every time I experience a symptom, basically.

It always passes through my mind. Not really in a negative way most of the time, but it still comes and goes.

I was diagnosed as a child and I rarely ever think about it.

Every hour of every day since March 4th, 2011. I'm surprised I haven't had a dream about AS yet.

It is slowly starting to go away, though. Now it's only once or twice an hour, whereas a few months ago it was every 2-3 minutes.

I was diagnosed at seven.

I was diagnosed when I was three, and I don't remember my mom ever keeping it a secret from me. Whenever it comes up, I think about it, but sometimes I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that most other people could be so different from me. How could there possibly be this other form of communication that I've never experienced before?

Not until recently when I realized how serious my difficulties with communication and social skills were. My sensory issues could be frustrating, but I thought of them as "sensory issues" and not "autistic issues" unless I sat down and thought about it. Same thing when I had problems with numbers - it was "I'm dyscalculic" not "I'm autistic."
Now that I've realized how much of my life it affects, it makes more sense to me to say "I'm autistic" rather than breaking my problems down into unrelated bits.

I was diagnosed with it at 10, didn't think much about it until I learned more from a counselor when I was 19, who recognized my AS traits and talked to me about it. Now I think about it every day.

I knew at a very young age that I was "autistic." Until several years ago, I never knew what it really meant, and I had no idea that is why I was so different, "smart," or that is why I had such a hard time. I never put the two together until several years ago.