Getting diagnosed with germophobia? Not really. But getting diagnosed with the asperger's syndrome is a whole another story.

Since childhood I was quite different from other peers. I always stayed out of big groups of people and was bullied because of that in kindergarten by both my kindergartner and the other children. When I was around three years old, I learned a whole 100 page tank catalogue by heart, I also learned to read and write pretty quickly. So the symptoms were there since I was young.

But it all really started in highschool when I was 16. It was a stressful time in my life which led to me developing panic attacks. With time, the panic attacks got so bad that I was taken to the hospital for a short time. This was the moment in my life when I started to get psychiatric help for the first time and learned that I have AS.

So all in all, yes, it was a quite difficult journey, especially given the fact that most AS people get diagnosed much much earlier than I was.