What as-symthoms you had as child?

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Hey I really trying to compare myself to you guy and figure out if I have asperger. Please answer

My mom said I used to walk on my tippy-toes alot as a child, I vaguely remember doing it...I spoke barely above a whisper ,not wanting to be heard, I was so shy..Voice was same tone for years, I learned to change my tone by emulating a newscaster on tv....wrote alot of poetry, lucky to have 1 friend in school each year, friendships were hard to keep, since I did not want to open up to people..over stimulated by folks at family gatherings, would end up crying and could not place why I felt like I did, just needed to be alone..always knew how different I was......

Lack of sense of humor. I remember very well that in the beginning of primary school I hated one girl from our class because I wasn't allowed to go to school alone until the third grade so I had to go there with mother who also took me home after lessons every time and I had to spend that time in the common room then. I loved drawing and said girl and her brother who were forced to spend time before lessons and after they finished in common room with me because they lived in another village used to laugh at characters I was drawing. It was completely impossible for me then to recognise they weren't interested in mocking but those were only innocent jokes. It was very easy to become my enemy because I lacked the sense of humor and it was the easiest thing in the world to offend me with an innocent, light-hearted remark.

Hyperlexia (I was 2,5 when I could read and I spend a lot of time reading, I can safely say I had and still have a compulsion to read everyyhing I came across), I was also a grammar nazi even in the first grade. I never made any spelling mistakes, it's because I had a good visual memory and I remembered very well how words were written.

Clumsiness - I was a typical sport cripple. I was also more slow and clumsy if compared to my peers speaking of manual activities.

Those so called milestones in my motor development as a baby were delayed (especially walking, I didn't acquire this ability until I was 1,5). In many cases it is the first symptom that a little child develops differently than peers.

Social problems - of course.

Collecting - flints, feathers, stickers... All those items were still watched and divided into categories by me.

I was extremely picky in terms of eating. I didn't eat almost anything. I often used to suffer from problems concerning digestive system.

Nervous tics - they began when I was about 5. The first ones were vocal as I remember.

Sincerity - my kinsmen were always informed by me they were fat, ugly and wearing ugly clothes.

My list of Characteristics of Children to Adolescences AS symptoms
http://asplanet.info/forum/index.php?topic=161.0

I was autistic as a child, so my picture is probably different to many with AS, but I feel like typing it out as I haven't looked back in a while.

I had nearly all of them but tantrums, though I had a few of those in certain situations.

Cognitive delay (this is an AD thing)
Speech delay and language problems (AD thing); speech therapy fixed this at the age of 5
Lack of nonverbal cues (ASD thing)
Lack of affective contact to people other than my mother (ASD thing)
Lack of imaginative play (AD thing)
Repetitive behaviours and motor mannerisms (ASD thing; more AD in my case in how they manifested)

This is before the age of 3.

It was actually somewhat depressing when I went through the DSM-IV-TR with the psychiatrist and my mother, especially in that I still met nearly all of them except those I outgrew (cognitive and language delays).

can't really remember.

I was pretty oblivious to the other kids at school, especially at break times etc.

I was mostly focussed on my work & keeping at least 2 books ahead of the others in Maths. I also identified with the teacher instead of the other kids, and had a copy of the "Teachers' Book" at home so I could see if they were teaching us properly!

I could also read fluently before I went to school, and assumed that all the other kids must have really lazy parents, who couldn't be bothered to read with their children & just left it to the school to teach it all!! !! !!

I was useless at PE and games, and had a developmental delay on things like tying shoelaces etc.

I used to line up my toys, and was obsessive about having things in the right order.

I hated changes in routine, especially when I had not been consulted about them.

I had a slight echolalia (eg.: I would repeat what Mickey Mouse said a couple of minutes later at the dinner table)
I wouldn't play with other kids if I wasn't allowed to boss them around
I would collect a lot of stuff even if I didn't need it
I could do math before I started going to school
I would usually daydream instead of doing anything at school
I knew a lot of car brands at age 3, and when I was in the car with my parents, I'd name all the cars I saw
I learned to tie my shoes at age 8 (which is very late)
I had big problems with my handwriting (which I have today to a lesser extent)

Many of the most obvious AS traits (lack of social skills, etc.) have followed me into adulthood.

- Very little desire to interact with peers (though I would sometimes interact with teachers). I also had no ability to interact with them, since I didn't understand or enjoy what they were playing and I didn't understand the way they acted. I avoided them.

- No idea of social cues and niceties; everyone from my peers to my parents' friends thought I was the "weird child" and in school I was called "socially ret*d" and not allowed to skip grades, despite my being academically more than able to do so (was sent to resource room alone for advanced work instead, which certainly didn't improve my social skills).

- Lack of eye contact; a lot of looking at the ground/floor and at the walls.

- Reading at age 3 and immediately reading chapter books (no school readers or baby books). I learned writing and grammar by reading, and had impeccable grammar as a young child (even correcting my preschool teachers' grammar at age 3).

- Echolalia from books, movies, television... everything; though I did it very often, it wasn't too easy to spot because I had such a wide range of sources to script from.

- Obsessive interests in which I learned everything (even reading scientific journals and textbooks): dinosaurs, forensic science, botany, etc.

- High academic skills far beyond my peers (i.e., algebra in the second grade, choosing my own words for spelling tests because they had no words I couldn't handle, spending classes in the resource room with more complex work).

- Motor issues (couldn't keep up to the level of peers in gym class or in play - even had this commented on in early report cards) and related skill delays:
* "drew" letters painstakingly as images instead of fluently writing them
* couldn't use a playground swing until age 9 or so
* couldn't tie shoes until age 11 1/2
* couldn't snap fingers until age 18

- Was always off in my own little world (would tune out everything and not pay attention to my surroundings for various reasons; there's another post about this in which I explain more). I was also a daydreamer (usually thinking about my special interests or trying to figure out a problem in my head), but sometimes when I was accused of daydreaming I was actually "tuning out" into my own world.

- Resistance to change. (My family and I were going to a shark movie once, and I was told that I had to clean up my room before we went. I didn't finish and wasn't allowed to go. I had a complete meltdown - not because of the shark movie, but because the plans had been changed. I can remember many instances like this in childhood... in school, at home...)

- Motor mannerisms (head movements, hand and shoulder movements) and strange habits (kind of like mouth "stims," saying a specific sound or letter over and over again).

- Meltdowns! They weren't recognized for what they were, of course, but I know I had them and now that I'm aware of AS, I can actually pinpoint the reasons for a couple of them that I can remember well.

Let me think....

I learned to swim at 11, ride a bike at 7 (both a bit late)

I would stand in the playground and just stare at the sun for ages, I liked the weird greeny blindspots you get from looking at bright things

We had a beaded curtain over the back door, I'd stand batting the beads like a cat for ages and ages.

I had meltdowns in crowded places. I would scream and cry every time my parents tried to touch me, but when I was still under a year old I managed to escape from my cot twice because I'd undone all the screws holding it together and basically dismantled it!

I wandered off on my own as a young child (3) twice, i liked walking through the woods on my own at 3, I also tried to run away from hospital at age 3....

Never had long-term friends because sooner or later it would be known how weird I apparently am.

I loved feathers too, I wore them in my hair and would get very upset at anyone telling me they were silly.

My favourite game was to put on big goggles and cover my face up when I was out on my bike, I loved the fact no-one could look at me.

Almost all of them. If I listed everything I did in specific detail, I could go on for pages. I'll try my best to summarize though.

-Lacked eye contact. Could do it, but rarely held it appropriatly.
-Lacked facial concern most of the time.
-When I learned to speak, it was in a monotone, and still is.
-Threw enormous tantrums when things didn't work out the way I expected, even though I was a mostly passive child.
-Organized things repetetively.
-Played with toys in unusual ways.
-Motor skills were desribed by my kindergarden teacher as imature.
-Terrible hand writing, still is.
-Tactile and auditory sensory sensitivities. Hyposensitive to pain. So socks made me cry, but scraping my knee was no issue.
-Stimmed in most of the same ways I do now.
-Had a tendancy to stare at everything, usually objects more than people. Lighting fixures, fans, doors, signs, carpet...ect.
-Was obsessed with befriending any animal I saw, but rarely made any effort to befriend other children.
-Trouble paying attention in school.
-Took alot of things literally. One of the few things I don't so as much as an adult.
-Depsite trying to be kind and helpful most of the time, true empathy was always a little difficult.
-Dramatic imagination was limited, but visual imagination was strong.
-Narrow and intense interests began developing around five. Dinosaurs, animals, and insects were the first.
-If my routines were disturbed, I became frustrated and irritable.
-Delt with frustration in unusual ways, banging my head, waving my elbow like a wing at people when I didn't want them close.
-Was and is akward at giving and recieving affection. Startle when touched unexpectedly.

I can keep going on, but I'll leave it at that.

Hmm. I did this alot too. Not for hours, but frequently for minutes at a time. I don't do it anymore, and fortuneatly kept my 20/20 vision somehow.

Lined up toys, hand flapped, had no intrest in other children, was shy, motor clumsiness, had pacifier till i was 8, diaper till i was about 5, ALOT of tantrums and obsessions with stuffed animals.

I had hand mannerisms, I would rock when sitting and listening to music, Trouble with eye contact, at times I would walk on my tippy toes, fine motor coordination issues, did not talk until I was 5 years old, did not tie my shoes until I was 9 years, was interested in when things (houses, buildings..) were built and/or fixed, always asked a car owner "what year is that car"?, I had a funny high voice which I had trouble controlling, lots of social issues, I had a number of meltdowns when I was really young, trouble with handwriting and the list can go on. I still have many of these problems today but most of them are not as bad.