Hello, I am an older AS diagnosee

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I was diagnosed only very late in life, two years ago. I turned 50 last year. I was happy to learn that what I have had (to deal with) all of my life, had a name.

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Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome aboard the WP, fellow-traveler RobN.

Welcome RobN! Me too only realized about 4 months ago.

Same here.
Welcome to WP.

Glad you found us. Welcome

Better late than never, I think. Too bad about the life.

Thank you, my new friends, for your welcomes to me.

Welcome!

How did you get that diagnosis?
Are you in the UK?
Did you even know it existed until the doctor told you and you then had to look it up, or did you look it up first and then ask if you had it?

I was seeing a shrink for Reactive attachment disorder and suggested to him that I might have Aspergers and that I scored quite highly on an online test, he just said, "everyone has a little bit of Aspergers" and didnt seem at all interested.
Seems a bit foolish to me, they spent all that money unsuccessfully treating RAD when maybe its purely an Aspergers thing that I prefer being alone?

Anyway, welcome, Iam old and late to the scene too, and know at least one of my lifetime friends is the same, but hasnt even heard of Aspergers.

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Nambo I am in the US. It was my sisters (three out of four of them) who in talking among themselves determined that I fit the criteria for AS; they presented their opinions to me. It was, honestly, the first time that I had ever heard of the syndrome, in my life (2008). I had heard of autism, but never of Asperger's Syndrome.

I was referred to a state psychiatrist, and she very quickly agreed from not only my medical records but also from the "history" that I related to her that everything about my life and behavior was consistent with a finding of AS.

Another counselor, a couple of years later, concurred with this, and his report was instrumental in getting me a favorable decision before an Administrative Law Judge for a Social Security Disability award (SSDI).

At my point in my life, all I can do is wish that children who are afflicted with AS are treated with sympathy and compassion, and never have to go through what a lot of us had to go through as children in the '60s and '70s.

Hello. I am older also, but diagnosed autistic at a young age.

I had to look it up. From my quick overview, it sounds like another "refrigerator mother" story.
Did you ditch that shrink yet?

That's probably the best / most reliable source of a diagnosis.

Not sure what you are getting at here?

My parents split up and I was given to my Grandparents at 18 months.
Grandmather died when I was 3
Me and Grandfather moved in with my mother and her husband, but she wasnt allowed to play with me, I was put to bed as soon as I got home from school. At weekends my stepfather would kick me in the stomach.
At 5 I was put in Childrens homes.

I did indeed ditch the skrink, well at least the one who gave me some sort of theropy that involved her not saying a word and me having to talk about anything, dont know what it was suppossed to do, I could have stayed at home and talked to the wall and saved petrol money.
Then the National Health Service informed me they had ditched me when I turned up for my next appointment with the main department.