Yes, diagnosed at 11
Best way I can put it is that you lack automatic social skills. Can't read others' emotions, can't naturally empathise, very inflexible to change/needs a rigid routine, obsessive, and very easy to get sensory overload e.g. in normal everyday situations feel overwhelmed and have to leave.
I had to manually learn to cope with each of these (still have the condition, but taught myself to read faces partially, to cope better with change, to be able to talk enough to buy something from a shop)
The condition is not seperable from my personality, and thus not 'curable'. Just livable.
But at age 11 I just couldn't even be in a regular classroom, there was too much going on, kids just talking or playing is too much to cope with. And yet at that point I could hold conversations with adults perfectly fine, because it was calm and structured.
I seriously dislike the image that misdiagnosed ADHD kids give Aspergers. Having Aspergers means you can be accidentally insensitive or inflexible on occasion, sure. It doesn't give you the right to be deliberately insensitive, to always get what you want, to abuse other kids/staff/parents, or to get special treatment above and beyond that which is necessary for you to cope in school/work. Also, most Aspergers people are capable of learning what is socially unacceptable and then not doing it.
I also am fully against any drugs being prescribed (mostly America). They do not help the condition itself, they just for example sedate you so other people can cope with you.
