When did you accept Asperger's?

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I never had a problem accepting it, only my parents made it seem like it was a bad thing.

I accepted it a few years ago when it was first brought to my attention. Finally something fit.

I was 14 when my doctor told my mom I was autistic (he also used the words idiot savant) and wrote down PDDNOS so insurance wouldn't write me off. I heard it but didn't understand it. It took thinking of it more, meeting an autistic girl I really connectedcwith, reading a lot, and meeting even more autistic people before I even began to accept it age 18ish. I think I was in my early twenties before I truly accepted it.

Almost immediately when I found out that I was diagnosed with it. I had a feeling before then that I was an Aspie; so I was content or even happy to be formally diagnosed as such.

I suspected it when I was about 15 taking autism tests online but I ignored it until I stopped going to grad school, and I accept it now but I should have become an engineer I think.

Havent yet, Im still debating wether the things I notice now are things I always did and never noticed or if they are things Im doing because of my new found knowledge about ASDs.

In the past 12 months at the age of 23

I've been severely effected by AS my whole life, but never really learned about it until I was 30. Once I started doing my own research on it, I was amazed by how perfectly it described me. When I was first learning about it I found the book "Asperger's From the Inside Out" by Michael John Carley at my local library, and it was very helpful.

I know a lot of people are against self-diagnosis and say "If you really had it you'd have been diagnosed for it a long time ago", but after I had to DEMAND to be evaluated (after being diagnosed as only obsessive-compulsive and bipolar with mild psychotic symptoms for nearly a decade), I was finally told that I met the criteria 100%, and that AS was what I was effected by the most, with the other conditions being co-morbid. Yes, this took a ridiculously long time, and I had to figure it out myself before they did, but the truth is, the mental health center I had been going to all along is very notorious for being a complete joke, run by unprofessional slobs who try to rush through every appointment, don't listen, and don't even remember who their patients are half the time. I honestly see no reason why most of the people who work there shouldn't be in prison for how dangerously careless and neglectful they are. I plan to completely switch all my treatments over to the mental health center in a nearby city soon (I have been receiving therapy there for quite some time, it is far superior to any therapy I received at the podunk hellhole here, and everyone I have ever encountered there is much friendlier and much more professional, so I'm convinced that receiving medical checkups there instead will also be rewarding). Driving further is worth it.

OK, sorry, I'm not trying to go off on a tangent, haha. Anyway, I fully accepted Asperger's syndrome as soon as I learned about it, and it was comforting and relieving in many ways. It was also great to make these spineless doctors give me a PROPER, THOROUGH EVALUATION for a change and see that they they were completely unable to deny what I had learned about myself. I just hope more neglected patients will be as fortunate with this sort of issue.

I got the U of C AS diagnosis at age six and the TEACCH diagnosis at thirteen. I think my parents told me when I was thirteen or fourteen.

I'm in the process. I am seeking diagnosis, and perhaps a new GP as he doesn't seem to know anything about the Autistic spectrum.

I figured I was an Aspie when my daughter was diagnosed with PDD-NOS. Reading up on high functioning autism, I came to realize I fit the description almost perfectly. As it turns out, a diagnosis from the same psychologist confirmed my suspicions. If anything, my whole life, with a life time of being the weird guy who who always smart but considered socially ret*d, suddenly made sense. And better yet, I've come to learn there is a world of people out there the same as me.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I was 22 or 23. Pretty much after I was first diagnosed.

My mum actually put the idea in my mind and she was told by my brother's ex-girlfriend.

I had a really confusing relationship which I finally was convinced that I had rubbish social skills and acted in really different ways to my ex-boyfriend's friends. Best day of my life when I realised I was so different from everyone else.

I haven't been diagnosed but from the stuff I have read on line I would find it hard to believe that I didn't have AS. I have only known about this for a short time and I am finding it hard to understand how I should be acting in public and if the reasons I have trouble at work and such have to do with this. I am trying to figure out what I should be doing.