How old were you when you discovered you had ASD?

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I ask because I've found out about this what I think would be quite late in life. I'm 22 and for a long time I was too stubborn to ask for any support with my life, even though I was unhappy, because I blamed myself for self-pitying rather than thinking I might not be NT. My rationale was actually "If I had Asperger's, surely someone would have noticed by now?" But what really happened is that I should have spoken to someone much earlier, as the counsellor I saw suggested I might have it during our first meeting.

So I'm wondering if this is fairly typical, or as I had previously thought, are most people diagnosed at a younger age? Did you ever consider the idea but delay finding out?

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A friend posted a Autism Quotient Test on facebook and it said he scored 9/50. I took the test and scored 37/50. I didn't even know what autism was at the time. I asked my girlfriend to do the test and she got 7/50. I then read Tony Attwood's book on AS and couldn't believe what I was reading. There was no doubt whatsoever. Finally there was a name for it.

I was diagnosed at 16.

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Got diagnosed at 18, senior yr of highschool.

Fifteen. I read in my medical report that I have autistic spectrum disorder. I didn't know AS was part of autism despite being diagnosed at age twelve.

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38. The same year my two young sons were diagnosed.

25. Much too late.

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I suspected by 17, but was diagnosed by 18.

I was 55. In my youth, the word wasn't even known in America. We were "lazy," and "unfocused," and "weird," and "maybe he's gay." At twenty, my friends referred to me behind my back as "Spock." At fifty-five, (still single) I hadn't heard the word until a relative was diagnosed and I checked it out online. It all fit. A lot of questions were answered.

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21, never got diagnosed, found it out myself.

42, too damned late.