I was pretty young. 7 or 8 and a kid told me Santa wasn't real, and the thought process went pretty quickly. It wasn't a traumatic thing for me. To be honest when I was in high school amd started encountering Mormons and Born Agains my thoughts were basically confusion that someone could be that old and still believe that crap.

Then I realized the planet I was living on.

I think I went from hating God straight into atheism, as a teen.

There is nothing mutually exclusive about the knowledge position -- [a]gnosticism -- and the belief position -- [a]theism. Since leaving theism, I have been both. They influence each other but vary independently.

I only ever said agnostic as a teen to avoid bs from the religious. As far as I am concerned always been atheist.

I grow up in atheist family, so for me it wasnt a big deal to not believe in fairytales

Waffled between the two from age 12 to 18. Atheist since then. 44 years now and counting.

I don't see the correlation. I don't see it as a scale... either you believe there is no God (based on the evidence/lack of evidence) or you believe that there isn't enough evidence to make a determination.

I'm of the latter, and I believe it's just as irrational to say "There is no God" as opposed to "There is a God"

I know for a fact : I don't know, and cannot prove either. But from what I observe, Religion is total bullshit. Thus - agnostic. (And Anti-thiest, for that matter)

So I disagree that you go from Agnostic to Atheist. Some might, but without empirical proof one way or the other, I'll be staying agnostic.

39 years and counting.

Went directly to confirmed athiest by age 20.

If I have the courage to admit to myself that I am not an agnostic but an athiest, I would say two years. However, I have not taken the final step yet. I am close....

Always been a nonbeliever.
Didn't know much about religion til I started school.
Seemed ridiculous when I did hear.
Nothing since has changed that assessment.

I was like you. With all the BS about how pure and good belief was, it took a long time to accept the fact (as I now know it) that there is nothing beyond life and no reason for it. Say you shut down a computer, disconnect the power supply and the battery. Then take out the back up battery the computer goes dead. Such is the human brain and with it the body. The people I've seen die have lost consciousness before they died which convinced me the mind or the soul lives on. Along that line it seems "seeing" a tunnel or a bright light means they aren't dead yet. Good luck with your quest.

I have always been an atheist.

Since birth.

Practically speaking, zero days, since my viewpoint didn’t change much and I was essentially already atheist. It probably took about 5 years of agnosticism before I really realized the true definitions, how they aren’t mutually exclusive and dared to use the term atheist though.

I've been an agnostic atheist since about seventeen years of age.