Experiences Common to Aspie Kids

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Anyone else afraid of the monkey bars? And those ladder type things that are on the playgrounds? Y'know, those things that connect one section to the other.

I know this is terribly off topic, but Kanji shares many characters with Chinese, although symbols describing modern concepts tend to vary, and the spoken languages and grammar are completely different.

Did anyone else have to do the Accelerated Reader program in school? I hated having to read specific "levels" of books. Until I was in high school and I no longer had to do that, it really irritated me. I always scored high on the proficiency test and had to read dry 19th century literature to be able to get all the required points.

[Is the difference between Japanese and Chinese something like two distant but relatively similar languages sharing an alphabet, e.g. Vietnamese and French?]

The Vietnamese writing is closer to French writing than Japanese writing is to Chinese writing, though I'd assume Japanese is more closely related to Chinese than Vietnamese is too French due to cultural exchanges between Japan and China, I know nothing of Vietnamese history prior to the communists.

But Chinese and Japanese are in separate language families where Japanese seems to be close to an isolate.

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Only the symbols are shared. They are in fact, completely different languages, when spoken and grammatically.

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First, I experienced some of the things you did too, guys:

I wasn't afraid exactly of getting shocked, but of heights and other things such as getting hurted or being pushed by other kids, etc.




Lots of fictional stories! Sometimes almost all the time. I still do it (though I never necessarily had problems with it). Same with the social exclusion. I had only a few people I talked to, but they weren't my friends really.




Yes! Always.




Yeah, I had some problems with that.




I had only three people who I considered real friends when I was at school. All the others, even those to who I talked a bit more, were just "colleagues" or, as you said, people I knew.
And I definitely hate hanging out too. I said it to my psychologist today. I don't know why people like it, and it's something I would never do if I could. There certainly are more interesting things to do (at home, of course).




The same.
And I could also say that my social interactions at school are a bit similar to yours. It was at middle school that I started to be more isolated (much more than before).



Now some of mine:

1 - Having a lot of difficulties with some specific things, such as:

- tying my shoelaces (I couldn't do it, and sometimes I spent the whole day at school with the shoelaces undone, because I wasn't able to tie them);
- dealing with scissors, sheets of paper, paper folding, glue, and other stuff used/done in the Arts classes;
- practising sports (sometimes it was compulsory to play with the group, and that was always terrible to me)

2 - Hating Maths (and Physics) - I know that it may be weird, but Maths was far from being one of my interests, so I always hated the classes. Even though I never did bad at the subject.

3 - As adolescent, thinking that I was much better than most people my age (and probably I was ). I always thought them to be too stupid and not even a bit intelligent. That's why I didn't want to be with them (and to be like them), and at the same time I wanted to have friends, but was never able to make any.

So are Vietnamese and French. I said closer, they are still less closely related than English and Hindi.

3. YES!! !! I got made fun of so much in 7th grade! Several mean girls made fun of me by giving undergarments (bras and such) disguised in nicer bags that made it look like a present. People said they had seen my mom talking in the office about suing the school, but they couldn't even get close to properly describing her. Also (I found out about this a couple years after it happened), some girl I thought was my friend blogged about me "staring at other girls in the locker room." I happened to not like changing in the same room as a bunch of other girls and I had no idea what to look at (I tend to want to focus on something), so I tended to zone out and move my eyes around the room absently, which they took as "looking at us change" when it was nothing of the sort. :p
4. I still do that. The professor will say something (or I'll remember something) that sets me onto making a story in my head, which causes me to miss a hunk of the lecture.
5. I'm scared (sort of) of escalators (particularly down ones) because I can't figure out when to get on and off. I'm also scared of bunk beds (if you're on top, you can fall off; if you're on the bottom, the top could fall and crush you). Totally irrational. One time my grandfather made me sleep on the bottom of the bunk bed they had (instead of in the regular bed in the room with the creepy Jesus picture). On top of that the TV was playing loudly in the next room. At 1:30 am, he came in and berated me for still being awake (we needed to get up at 4am).



Yeah. I ended up with a 9.2 grade level when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I wasn't restricted to reading that level, though, probably because the only book my school had that came close to my level was Little Women. I DID read an awful lot of 4.5 level nonfiction books about colonial life, though.

me too, almost exactly the same.