How were you perceived as a young child?

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09 Nov 2014, 8:04 am

During my preschool years, shy and eccentric. Later on, clearly autistic (my behaviors became less socially acceptable; NT preschoolers have a lot in common with Aspies.)

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09 Nov 2014, 5:24 pm

Kind, bookish, strange, very quiet, and polite. Other children didn't tease or bully me much, and I had a few friends.

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09 Nov 2014, 6:13 pm

nerdygirl wrote:

I was a compliant child and well-liked by adults because I generally followed the rules. I was also smart and could engage in adult conversation. My social skills among peers, though, was quite different.

I was shy around everyone. The question that I got from my mom was "Why are you always so serious?" No one thought I might be on the spectrum, though looking back I see that I had a lot of characteristics, including stimming, talking at length about my special interests, and not playing pretend.

Aspergers wasn't a diagnosis when I was in school, and I definitely would not be thought to have classic autism. So, any problems that I had were considered due to being "too smart for my own good."

My mom has also complained that as a baby, I would not cuddle.

I think back and remember some of the other kids who were in the top classes in high school with me, some smarter than me. They didn't all have the social problems I did. There was/is definitely something going on besides "being smart."

This is 100% accurate for me too. Add in some 'not living up to her potential' and 'would do fine if she just tried harder' and you're there.

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10 Nov 2014, 12:06 am

I was perceived as very legalistic!!

Most of the time I was shy, however that was firstly due to mutism and then "being in my own world". Other times I was very feisty.

Since I was very young, I had a lot of obsessions, phobias, and anxiety. People also thought I was not capable of doing certain things but my mum had great faith in me and gave me so much support.

I had a lot of trouble during my early childhood to the extent that my teachers and parents were unsure how I would cope with mainstream education.

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10 Nov 2014, 12:08 am

I was labelled by teachers as being "unresponsive " when I was very young, and I was badly bullied from a young age.

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10 Nov 2014, 1:03 am

Cute?

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10 Nov 2014, 1:21 am

Ganondox wrote:

Cute?

I was also told I was cute!

But then I have been called cute as both a teenager and as an adult, sometimes in a patronising way.

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10 Nov 2014, 7:09 am

i was very picky about who came near me when i was really little, on the violent side if i didn't like it. i never really got along with other kids but i have a brother whose 16 months apart so it usually didn't matter. i was really clumsy and always giving myself bruises, and on one occasion braces on my front teeth from a mishap with some black ice.

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10 Nov 2014, 7:12 am

As a stranger. And very cute.

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10 Nov 2014, 11:50 am

As an annucance, not really knowing where she was, distrubtion.

My father even mentioned to me many times that I should of been "greatful" that he did not lock me up.

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