Sorry if I am snoopy but what does he want to test you towards?

And what do you think makes you autistic?

In a way with my first suspicion of aspergers, I don't even remember what they were! I just remember thinking "that is me!"

That you will be diagnosed this age is not especially weird, I am also a gen X'er and when I was a kid, autism was a nonverbal disorder. When I was 20, aspergers was a condition where you did not understand that other people existed or had minds of their owns, also you always lived day to day the exact same and you had to be in an institution. So they couldn't have caught me there because I was not those things. First after letting "light" cases like me in, it could happen. I would say that started about 15 years ago only.

And if you have developed ways of coping, they will not see it, oftentimes the person himself will not even see it. That they are different this particular way. If you are of high intelligence you probably learned to compensate A LOT. So, I am not surprised it took this long.

I think a diagnosis IS important. Not maybe for you, but for your treatment providers. I notice when I "became" an aspie after being personality disordered, the same behaviors were seen very differently. Before I was seen as defiant, a trouble maker. After I was seen as maybe stressed, pressured or not being on the same level of communication meaning misunderstandings.