How and when were you diagnosed

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I have my first appointment Sept 27 and need to go to four appointments. Doing ados module 4 and other test (s).

Right before I was 3 in 2002. Whatever standard tests are done for toddlers I suppose.

I started preschool in Spring of 1997, around my 3rd birthday. After a few weeks, the staff there noticed that I wasn't acting like the other kids and referred my mom to a specialist who diagnosed me with PDD-NOS, which was later changed to HFA when I was about 7, which would have been in 2002. I don't really remember much of the diagnosing process. I just remember getting in my mom's car and her driving about an hour away to talk about me and my behaviors with a woman I didn't know. It was pretty weird and scary actually, to be honest with you, but that was because I was little and confused.

Tried being more social in 2015.
It didnt' work. Then I began self evaluating and asking.
Then internet searcing, suspected Aspergers.
Not convinced. Did more reasearch in 2016, confirmed, Very High functioning, self diagnosed age 38.
My dad had it also - he was never diagnosed.

I was diagnosed when I was 13. When I was diagnosed, I had no idea what the specialist who was working with me was talking about because for a portion of the eighth grade, I only had three things on my mind:

-Coping with the loss of my father, who passed the day after I turned 12 in 2002.

-Coping with the presence who saw me {and some fellow misfits} as an easy target.

-Thinking of ways to tell a female peer who I had an infatuation for.

I was diagnosed, in 1964, at age 3. I'm not sure if it was a psychologist or psychiatrist.

Infantile Autism. It was recommended that I be institutionalized.

I was re-diagnosed with "brain damage" about a year or two later.

To the shire I wrote for help, and me to a healer they sent. Ere he named me it, for a time of xxx minutes he spake to me, and said he this: autism spectrum have I.

I was seeing a psychologist for depression and she recommended that I see her colleague who specialised in autism. I was really puzzled by this - had never heard of autism. So I went a number of times for assessment and my mother was also interviewed over the phone. In the end I was diagnosed with HFA which was confirmed by a visit to a psychiatrist who also specialised in autism.

This was in 2004 and I was 27.

I don't know exactly "how" I was diagnosed. But I was diagnosed at seven.

I was diagnosed at 12 when i fell into a deep depression and was at a really bad place in my life.
I was evaluated for most psychological disorders, got diagnosed as depressed and autistic.


Was diagnosed with autism but was told by parents and other mental health professionals that i wasn't autistic and just "had some symptoms of aspergers "not autism"". I have the report they wrote and was later told by my doctor that i am autistic.

Parents still have some issues with it, if i say I'm autistic they are quick to chime in "well, just a bit autistic", although they in general are accepting.

I was diagnosed in the summer of 2015.

After years of struggling with ED and diminished feelings of sexual desire, I was referred to a psycho-sexual health therapist. Within minutes of our first meeting, he discerned that I might be on the spectrum. Thereafter I undertook a test with the therapist in question (he was also a fully-qualified ASD assessor) and that's how I was formally diagnosed.

From my perspective, I was diagnosed about 15 years too late.

In 2010, when I was 31.
My psychiatrist was running out of ideas and so was my wife. She asked him about the possibility of me having Asperger's, since it is in my family. He referred us to a psychologist more knowledgeable about it, who used a combination of questionnaires and interviews. I don't remember the names of the forms.

I was diagnosed this spring at age 40 with HFA/Aspergers by a psychiatrist during an intake appointment after asking about and having a discussion with her.

I always knew something about me was 'different', especially in social situations, but somehow I still fell in with the popular crowd at school, but never felt as if I fitted in with others if that makes sense.

I suspected it for a few years, and last year when I broke up with my Fiancee of 6 years I really looked into it, and found out I have aspergers.

There is over a 2 year wait for a actual diagnosis in my area, and I first need to see a psychiatrist. I am going to do this, although do feel a sense of well being knowing there was a reason I felt different for all that time.

10 months ago aged 37

I was diagnosed at age 55 by a specialist with 30 years experience who said that she had no trouble diagnosing me. This was a result of sibling intervention following "Autistic Meltdown"