I was medically diagnosed at 13 but their was signs of it since I was basically 7

at age 11-ish my parents were told by a psychiatrist that i was most likely autistic but they couldn't diagnose it without an official screening, and my parents denied the screening, so i've just been floating in the nebulous self-dx space ever since, though i didn't really accept it until i was like 16 or 17

I got my diagnosis at 17

i and my family had suspected it since quarantine, officially diagnosed around october last year i believe?

18!!

i got diagnosed at around 10! im 14 now

started to self diagnose around 15, got an official diagnoses at 16, am 17 now :)

started researching when i was 13, got professionally diagnosed when i was 14 :)

i believe i was still a toddler, so somewhere around the ages 2-4. i don’t rrly remember lolz

Started the diagnosis proccess at 18. Now I'm 19 still waiting for more tests and all lol so not officially diagnosed but I'm recognized as autistic

i was professionally diagnosed @ 13 ‼️

I've know since I was very young that I was. I've not gone in for a formal diagnosis yet but will eventually. Just have no clue how to go about bringing it up. It's also been heavily implied by therapists in the past as I do have many other illnesses and disabilities typically found in tandem with ASD and multiple generations of family members show similar symptoms as well as my nephew being formally diagnosed.

At 22 years old but my mom basically knew all my life :8

I got Dxed at 16 :8 it was pretty surreal LMAO

i got self diagnosed at 14!!!! (with my friend telling me that i very likley am)

My mum took me to the hospital when I was 4 and I was diagnosed with Autism. She said she knew something was up because I walked away trusting a stranger completely and that I couldn't form sentences till I was 10.

i was lik 14-15

I self diagnosed at 12 and was professional at 14

I got tested and diagnosed at 13. 

Even though it was still in late-childhood and most "late diagnosed" autistics don't get diagnosed into adulthood, I still find that I experienced many of the same things that those diagnosed in adulthood experience.

I definitely went through all of my life up until that point feeling like an alien, horribly confused all of the time, and desperately wanting to know what had to be "wrong with me." Because that's what I felt, that something was wrong with me. I felt so out of touch and different from everyone else, and it was incredibly alienating. I found myself struggling with a lot of confusion and other abilities being extra challenging, and it was all extremely distressing, not knowing why, and feeling so alone.

It wasn't until I met a friend in middle school who told me she was autistic. Everything about the way we thought, felt, acted, experienced internally, all in the most oddly specific of ways, were so similar to each other. I felt like I wasn't an alien anymore. There were actually people just like me in this world.

So yes, I did experience a lot of the not knowing why I do certain things and finding out later that it was an autistic thing, and the clarity and relief one gets after discovering they're autistic, knowing that there is a whole category of people just like you.

It wasn't super late, but it was late enough for all of that.

I got diagnosed with Autism at age 15..... which is actually my current age. The diagnosis was recent.

I was diagnosed when i was super young, like around 3-4 years old. My aunt noticed I was showing signs of autism and recommended  to my mom that i get evaluated and diagnosed for Autism.

I got officially diagnosed last December shortly before my 15th birthday :)

I was told I'm possibly autistic when i was 5? but i was officially diagnosed right before I turn 18.

I was diagnosed officially at 2!! pretty rare for a girl..

I think I got diagnosed because I kept seizing out on my mom.

i was diagnosed in.. 2021. the assessment begun at the start of the year and ended around the middle/end of it! i was diagnosed when i was 13 so they did do a children's assessment so it was a really weird experience, i had to play with toys and whatnot. 

i started to wonder in 2019 and got diagnosed in 2021 at 19. super weird being late diagnosed, like i was convinced i allistic with an anxiety disorder. turns out my "panic attacks" were autistic meltdowns. who knew?

I was diagnosed when I was around 4 years old. so pretty early on.

I was diagnosed last summer, so around a year ago, and its been a little hard ajusting to the info. just trying to be myself at this point :P

At 11 my doctor's where like 'yeah this kids autstic' and my parents where like 

Noooo they couldn't have been they (describes literally just a non stereotypical autism thing ex. Instead of being very non social id run up to EVREYONE and ask them to be my best friend)

Doctors still say I'm autstic to this day but I've never been able to get diagnosed :/

I say to this day as if I'm not still a minor

I know this is old but I was diagnosed at 8.

I was diagnosed as a kid. I think I was around 7 or 8. I'm 20, almost 21 now. 

I was diagnosed when I was 2. I do however plan to get a re-evaluation done soon cuz back then I was told I had a "mild case," plus I wanna have something more up-to-date before I head out for college. ^^

i was about 16 :)

I was most definitely self-dx by my bsf sleepy who is ALSO autistic 🫶 we bonded so fast wonder why

I'm 23 and I've slightly questioned/wondered for a few years, but didn't start seriously considering it/researching it until this past year. But after realizing, OMG EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE NOW!!

i was 6

self-d at 12 and complete d at 14!

Self-DXed only a few years ago around the age of 22

i found out 2 years ago, when i was talking to my school therapist, she told me she seen some signs.

I just recently (about feb 2023) got diagnosed

originally, I got tested at like 12! But I got officially diagnosed this year ^_^   

Got diagnosed literally 3 weeks ago at good ol 18

i was professionally diagnosed at age 12, but at around age 5-6 i was diagnosed with ADHD, and ive always seen what traits ive had, not just with ADHD but also autism traits that i had when growing up. im so happy i got diagnosed because now i know who to reach out to and how to further explain my emotions without feeling singled out 

i got diagnosed when i was 17, so my final year of highschool. but i was previously diagnosed with dyscalculia when i was 10 :/

i was 13! i'm 14 now tho. >_<

adhd when i was little and autism like a couple years ago amongst other mental disabilities.

Figured it out when I was 13. Parents seemed ableist, so I kept it hidden. Finally admitted it to my dad at 15.

"We know."

I COULD'VE BEEN NOT MASKING THIS WHOLE TIMEE?????

anyways, no way of getting a formal diagnosis because finances aren't great for my family rn and healthcare SUCKS

self diagnosed at 15-16 I can’t remember, then now at 17-18 I tried getting a formal diagnosis but the doctor didn’t even give us a chance to take the autism test before she said I didn’t have autism, and so she instead diagnosed me with a whole bunch of other stuff that autistic people are commonly misdiagnosed with, and not only that I’m AFAB, openly trans & queer, and seeking an autism diagnosis and the medical world is pretty ableist and misogynistic towards afab autistics, queerphobic to trans/queer autistics, and overall ableist towards autistics 

15!! i told my mom in passing "i think i might have autism" and i honestly just lowkey forgot about it but she ig held onto it and decided to get me tested and after testing i was like "okay im pretty sure i dont have autism" cuz idk it didn't feel like based on the questions that i could have it but i got the results back and i was high functioning (ik not everyone uses or likes that term anymore and i apologise if like i shouldnt have said it but alright bye bye!!)

i was diagnosed around maybe like 6-7? i was nonverbal from 1st to maybe 4th or 5th grade so life was probably rlly hard for my parents and teachers