What is the first thing you ever did that was "autistic

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Laptops have been relatively common since the start of the 90s and existed since the mid 80s. My father got his first laptop (An Apple Mac Powerbook 140) in about 1992.

One of my earliest memories is of seeing a piece of wire in the street by my house, and comparing the sound of the word "wire" and "liar". I was about 2 years old.
When I was 4, I wandered off to explore a nearby mesa. I lived in SW Texas, and I was fascinated by the rimrock bordering the flat tops of the local hills. I probably walked 4-5 miles round trip. Everyone was panicked when I got back, wondering where I had been.

I really don't know if I can pinpoint the first thing I did that was on the spectrum because I have trouble remembering things from when I was a little kid. I can remember little bits but not really how old I was or what happened first. One of the first things I guess would be when I hid in the closet at Christmas and got very scared about opening the presents. I remember holding one of my toys and screaming and trying to feed this stuffed animal or doll (I don't actually remember what the toy was just that I had one of those toy bottles where the juice disappeared like the toy was drinking it). I must have thought the new toys would replace my old toys or something and maybe that is why I freaked out. I also remember repeating the word skunk over and over again on a car trip (I don't know why but maybe we saw one on the side of the road)- but it felt good physically to say.

First Thing I Remember:
[My house][Backyard][Bush wall][Parking lot][Elementary school]
My route between school and home involved a hole in the bush wall. One day, during the winter, I decided to stop on the way home and eat the snow. Turns out I went at it a half-hour before my mom came out looking for me.

First Thing:
Not crying when I had a terminal fever as a baby. I was never one to talk.

I have forgoten most of my childhood
but I was told as a baby I often used to go off and hide from people
under sofas whatever which is kind of weird

Build a six-foot toy plane from feminine period tub things, it really fly good too.

whisteling the rugrats theme song backwards(it took them FOREVER to figure that out!!!they ended up recording it and listening to it backwards-no idea how!!!-one night and hearing it go the right way)at two.spinning in circles.rubbing my head on walls(which i have been known to do in class if my desk is close enough)playing a song(i forget the name)off the radio on my little kiddie keyboard after hearing it only once.randomly reading the contents of my cheerios(thats how they learned i could read)i've been randomly yelling"ka-kaaaaaw!! !"since i was five...the end,i said the end after every sentence.the end.

I think I gave my parents a hint when I was 2 and would wake up every day, leave a room full of toys, pad down the hallway, sit behind a door and flip the door stop (the old spring kind that would go THLTHLTHLTHLTLtllllll...) over and over all.. day.. long..

Stim. I looked like a penguin. Have you seen the persil advert with the little kid with the hand-flap. I did that.


OKAY, OKAY, I ADMIT IT, I still do, I caught myself doing it today - I'm sixteen for crying out loud!

I used to do that, but it was loud and the first time I did it it scared the heck out of me! (ours goes FLOOIIING!! !)

Ah yeah thats a much better approximation of the sound it makes.. couldnt quite figure out how to describe it

Drove my parents completely lip-dribbling insane

Since I was very young I would always ask my parents how deep bodies of water were. Now when we're near a body of water they will say they're surpised I didn't ask "How deep is it?"

Also there was one point in swimming lessons where I was obsessed with the filter(the built-in kind) in the pool.

I also loved touching lines/marks that are left on your skin from clothing. I would touch my mom's "lines" I still like to examine my body for lines when I wake up in the morning. Anyone know what I'm talking about when I refer to these lines? I'm the only one I know who does this.

Everything seemed bigger and louder when I was a kid too, but I think that's normal.

Oh yeah, here's some other things I learned from my mom. I was an avid reader by 3 years old and I also learned how to use the VCR at that age too.

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Fraya: Heheh!
Ghostgurl: I do that sometimes too, I like feeling that patterns made on me. I think I once lay on my deck just to imprint the side of my face so I could feel it. Talk about stimming!

I can't remember a particular moment where I acted Aspie, however I have several moments from Primary school I could relate to. One was when I was obsessed with trains. I would go to the playground sometimes during playtime and carve out railway tracks in the bark chips using my feet and pulling them along. I would then go on circuits around my track, and get upset if someone ruined even a small portion of it (I'd fix it and start the circuit again). I would also hum the tune of my favourite TV show at the time which, unsurprisingly, was Thomas the Tank Engine.

Another was when I was asked to deliver a note to a classroom. I was told to go to a class, but I tuned out and only got a 'blurred' version instead. I went around the school looking for this class, as I didn't know where it was, and I was nervous to ask because I didn't like starting a conversation with someone I didn't know (it was okay if they started, though, and it's still that way today). I spent about half an hour looking for it, and I gave up and went back to class. When asked if I delivered the note and saying I couldn't find the class, I was told that it was RIGHT. NEXT. DOOR.

There was also a big pyramid made from tires which I would sometime crawl into because it was nice and enclosed, and I would get a little bit upset if someone went inside (I didn't mind if they climbed it). I would also follow random people who I felt were going to do something of interest such as climb onto the bank for a little while and explore.

aaah!!!i did that...actually i still do.

I remember wanting to sit down inside and play my Nintendo or Genesis when I was about 5 or 6, instead of being like my brother and going outside and play with the other kids.

Not one of the first "autistic" things I did when i was a kid, but:

This was like me when I was an older kid / teenager... obsessed with Dragon Warrior (on NES). There was this one girl from school (whom I turned out to be best friends with after a while) who would call me every night to talk about... stuff... (I dunno, stuff.) and I would say, "Yeah that's great can I let you go I'm playing Nintendo."

Not your typical teenage girl.

She still kept calling me though, and her patience paid off; we've been best friends for 13 years!