Your gender and age of diagnosis for AS

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Please only vote if:

1. you received an official diagnosis of Asperger's (even if you're actually elsewhere on the spectrum according to the DSM/ICD)
2. you know or suspect that you have AS

To get an idea in poll-form on how many autistic people are diagnosed as having Asperger's or are undiagnosed and whether there's any significant difference in the gender-ratio of diagnosed males and females here on WP.

Can you clarify the "necessary" and "ever" qualifications of the undiagnosed options in the poll?

I'm undiagnosed and I have been wondering if it is worth getting a diagnosis now I am passed 30 and doing ok. I would like it for my own peace of mind, to have my certainty confirmed, but I am aware that the label may not be entirely helpfu.. It may not be the passport to others' understanding of me that I hope it might be. But I also think I should get diagnosed so that this 30-something female gets inculded in the official statistics.

Which catagory do I fall into? Diagnosis is/would have been necessary or no diagnosis needed (ever)?

Male, and diagnosed at age 16.

Male.
27 years old.
I only this year discovered Asperger's.
I KNOW I have it, and I am still seeking a diagnosis.

Female, diagnosed at age 50

Ah, yeah.

The criteria of AS demand an impairment in some area of your life. Most people who are impaired have a need for help and thus a need for the diagnosis. What the criteria do not take into account is that older adults may have learnt to cope with many of the disabling aspects of their AS. They would have warranted and needed a diagnosis in the past, but may not need it today anymore.

On the other hand, there are some people who consider themselves to have AS but who were never impaired due to AS. They will not need a diagnosis to learn how to cope with their differences that stem from AS.

So with my sure a bit complicated wording I wanted to divide the group of undiagnosed people:

If you have never been impaired because of AS, you don't need the diagnosis.

If you are impaired now or have been impaired in your past you still need or would have needed the diagnosis.

This is a generalisation, but for the sake of this poll I don't care.

Female, 48 (I think, I don't remember exactly which year, but that's close. Could have been 47.)

Female, just diagnosed at 45

Female, diagnosed at age 12.

female, found out about AS when I was 30 (in trying to get my older son dx'd appropriately) The more I learn the more convinced that I am also AS. My son is 8 and is dx'd with AS, my younger son is also spectrum, either PDD or AS. I am now almost 33

Male diagnosed at 9.

Male, diagnosed at 10.

Female, diagnosed at 15.

female officially diagnosed at 17 but unofficial diagnoses by psycologist at 13

Gender: Female

Age at Diagnosis: 30

Ditto.