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to have as symthoms as a child when im seeking for as diagnosis? If I didn't had as symthoms before my puberty can it be aspergers? Thanks!

I really need conversation here not just 1 or 2 replies

I can't take that image. Its everywhere.

Um. Sorry.

Do you mean that you didn't have symptoms or you don't remember any symptoms?

If its the first its less likely that you have aspergers, its a developmental disorder and one you are born with which means its there from when you are a child and as far as I know, I have only been researching this for a few months however and am only myself being assessed now so there are others here who have much wiser answers than I.

As far as I know I didn't have any symthoms as a child. I've asked my parents and some friends. How much symthoms and how clear symthoms I must have as a child to have aspergers syndrome now?

Thanks for ansvering btw. And I hate that picture too.

When I asked my mom, she couldn't pinpoint anything. But then I thought about it and thought about things I have done and I have things. For example, my mom failed to remember that after naps I used to rock on my knees and say "AHHH" right by the door. Granted, that's kid behavior maybe, but she still didn't mention it.

If you had no signs before puberty, it's unlikely, although I know of a guy who was diagnosed with AS and whose mother claimed he had no signs before puberty (but then the stories both of them told, contradicted that).

Puberty can be a time of gaining self-awareness, thus being more aware of the ways you are different, whereas before you weren't as aware, even if you were just as different.

It can also be a time when things get harder to do, so if they were hard but not so hard as to be currently diagnosable, they could conceivably become more obviously hard.

So I'm not sure anyone here can really answer that.

By the way, the old diagnostic criteria for "childhood onset pervasive developmental disorder" included "C. Onset of the full syndrome after 30 months of age and before 12 years of age." Which would indicate things like this becoming apparent at puberty do happen for some people.

When I asked my mother, she listed a few characteristics of mine that fit with AS. I lacked a few others.

The two major ones were I've been socially inept all my life and growing up I would have my intense obsessions - dinosaurs, astronomy and animals.

I won't really get into it so as not to go off on a tangent. Things did get worse for me socially though after the age of roughly 12, though.