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When and how did you hear about Aspergers syndrome?

I first heard of it when I was 9 when I watched the documentary about that family where all the boys were on the spectrum. This was 2 years before I was diagnosed, I thought that luke (the aspie one that wrote that book) was like a proper nerd and I was like "ppfftt haha". But when I watched it again 2 years later on the night my mum told be about the diagnosis, before my mum said anything, I was suddenly like "wait a minute..."
 
Movie called Adam. Knew I was off pretty badly compared to 'normal' people, but never had a name to put to it. I'm a lot of like main character, and that made me want to look up more info. I'm about 98% certain I have Asperger's, according to what I've read.
 
I did the Rdos.net test alongside a load of aquaintances at uni in my first year, and 80% of my answers were 'Aspie'.. i was too embarrassed to ask what it meant, however after looking the term up i didnt see myself as 'Autistic' or really knew what it meant, so, carried on. then later on i met a guy with Aspergers and we hit it off right away.. then people started asking me if i had it.. year later, i find out my best friend from home was diagnosed, and we spoke and realised we had lots in common, too.. so, put it all together, i looked it up online again, suddenly the world made sense.. that was about three months ago.
 
I cant remember. I think my mum said to me she thought I had slight autism. So I searched slight autism and aspergers came up then I researched for years and realised that I feel I have it.
 
 After being the victim of a car crash (our car ended up a write-off)  my health started to deteriorate. I was having migraine headaches and stomachaches in addition to problems with sleep and eating. It took years but I was eventually referred to a psychologist after seeing many different doctors/support people. The psychologist concluded that I had Asperger Syndrome. So, effectively if the car crash never happened, I would have never known or heard of Asperger Syndrome.  
 
I was 13 when I knew about Aspergers Syndrome but never really looked into it up until last year.
I then started joining aspergers forums right after I started watching videos about it.
 
I was 12 when diagnosed and mom told me I had it. I didn't even know what it was then. I wasn't fond of it then when I heard my problems had a name. I thought it meant I was stupid. I didn't start reading about it until I was almost 15.
 
I was very young when I was told that I had Asperger. When I was about 5-7-year-old. Not sure. My mother and doctors told me that if I remember correctly.
 
Last year, looked into wiki and found i had most of the symptoms.
Turns out ive been diagnosed with it a month ago.
 
I had heard of Aspergers years ago, but kind of thought of it as a funny name that sounded a bit like "Ass Burgers". There is a character on Boston Legal who supposedly has Aspergers Syndrome, but I'm not much like him.

Then maybe 6 months ago I saw an ad for the movie "Adam", with interviews etc, and looked up Aspergers due to suspicions that a couple of family members may have had it.

If I am on the spectrum it is more likely that I would be classified as having "high functioning autism", as I have a bunch of co-morbid type problems like clumsiness and lack of co-ordination, ADD, possible mild learning disability, sensory issues, very poor short term memory, and I was very late talking. I also have a couple of "positives" like being very good at mental arithmetic and rote learning.

Funny how, in my 40s, I had already pretty much come to terms with all this stuff as being "just me". And now I have had to come to terms with it all over again. It would be nice if the specialists who I went to as a 5 or 6 year old to see if I was "mentally retarded" (my teacher thought I belonged in a special school) had picked it up, instead of them just giving a surprise diagnosis of "above average intelligence".
 
First familiarized myself with the term last year, while being diagnosed. Was seeing a psychologist for depression, who had requested to review my history. That's when we found a psych evaluation from when I was 6(1995), that said that I seemed to meet the criteria for PDD/NOS, but nothing was ever done about it, diagnostic wise. I guess because I was already getting extra help in the special education program at school, and had been diagnosed with severe ADHD at age 4, it was just overlooked. She(the psych) thought I could have some sort of PDD/ASD and wanted to refer me to someone else, which I at first refused because I couldn't believe I had some kind of autism and I found the idea horrifying. Back then, the only kind of autism I knew about, was from kids I had known in school who had a more classical autism. Hell, I had a boy in my class in 5th-6th grade whom I am quite sure now had some kind of LFA though I did not realize at the time.

I started doing my own research after that, reading about it, learning about it, but it wasn't until I saw a show on tv called Autism x6, that I really started understanding what it really was and could make more sense of what I read. Ultimately, I decided there may be something to it, and as much as I didn't like the idea, I nervously decided to see this other specialist because I was now curious. I ended up getting diagnosed with AS, which did surprise me, as I thought it would have been PDD/NOS if anything like it was noted in my youth, but the diagnosis had only reached the DSM IV when I was 6. I now know that my ADHD was/is just secondary.
 
i always knew i was a bit different tbh, thought i was a wierdo
so i was relieved to find out there was a name 4 it :)
 
I was a kid when I found out about it and since I was a kid I don`t think I ever thought I was somehow different or weird compared to other kids. But when I got older knowing I had Asperger I noticed that I am quite different from others. I still think so. But the others don`t notice it (Or so I think).
 
I didn't think I was different- not anymore than anyone else(everyone thinks they're weird/different/w.e, it's stupid), but I did get bullied a lot and didn't have many friends but my Mum told me it was the same for everyone, so I genuinely thought everyone at school hated going to school everyday and had no friends and that everyone hated them- which looking back clearly wasn't the truth.
When my Mum told me about my diagnosis of AS I was somewhat happy that it wasn't normal to be treated like utter **** but also pissed off that it had to be which would be treated like utter ****.
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Chair said:
Before discovering you had Aspergers did you realize you were different?
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I knew I was different from everyone else at an early age. I just didn't know how.

In fact, looking back on it I remember one time wanting to go to my doctor for a health check-up to see if he could find anything wrong with me.
 
Chair said:
Before discovering you had Aspergers did you realize you were different?
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I was diagnosised with mild autism (might of been misdiagnosed, I seem to have more characteristics of someone with aspergers).
Before I discovered about it, I noticed when I was different when I was about 11 but I just couldn't quite understand what it was at the time.
 
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