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Has anyone been diagnosed for Autism in later years between 50-70 for instances and lives in the U.S.A.? If you have did you or family members have to give the psychiatrist a documentation of all of your traits? And at that age were your required to take some sort of test as well?

I was screened in 2014 (age 52) and diagnosed in 2015 (age 53). Being from Utah, ground-zero for genealogy, everybody grows up knowing which life records are to be kept. I arrived at my diagnosis with several documents including my "baby book" which showed some autistic characteristics in my early childhood (age two years and older) including neologisms, toe-walking and routines. The diagnosticians referred to the evidence of characteristics, but didn't really need it because I completed the ADOS-2 module 4 (adult) test that looks for its own evidence regardless of age.

I was diagnosed at age 55. I took a number of tests and the clinician conducted a structured interview with my sister.

I was diagnosed last year at 47. My family was not questioned or involved in any way because I knew that they would just be in denial so I told the psychologist that it was not worth asking them anything. I provided all the notes and photographs from my childhood and provided notes from my own memories. I was also given the full 8 hour battery of tests.

My husband was diagnosed at 50.

I had to fill out a form. I've known him since age 19.

A first degree relative filling out the form/ or something like an IEP/behavior study/any testing that occurred from 0-12 had to be submitted. It had to be someone that knew you as a young child. My husband's mother filled it out. She is on the spectrum and is oblivious to every thing people wise. It was a hoot reading it.

The psych would not do the study without something from early childhood. A report card. He even would accept home videos.

My husband had 5 hours of testing and the interviews.