one way to tell if you have autism or not.

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My mother told me I never cried for attention, only to have my basic needs met (hungry-wet). She had her hands full already so I was easy for her. Consequently I didn't get a lot of stimulation.

lol, I still don't really know whether I was a good baby or a bad baby based on that statement she kept saying but I think she indicated in other ways that I was a good baby even though I'd gotten my days and nights mixed up. Maybe I was a mix of the two with the days and nights thing. We can't please everyone can we.

^ LOL. Whenever I ask my mother about my babyhood or first few months she says she cannot remember because all her babies have blurred into each other. (she had 8 kids.)

My mother had 5 and 4 of us within a 5 year period. We weren't raised, we were herded.

^^That's not even fair.

What do you mean?

What Millie said with being one of eight kids with her ma. It all blended together. That sounds a bit like something my mother would say too. It's just I stuck out to her like a sore thumb. I'm the first of five.

I stuck out to my mother too. She used to take me to a room and lock the other kids out. She was very protective of me.

According to my mom, grand-parents and other elder relatives I was a very quiet infant. Only crying when I required feeding or changing, to quote my grandma "you were so quiet we had to check on you from time to time just to make sure you were still in your crib".

Of course, that all changed once I learned to walk, which was when high-speed encounters involving my face and solid objects occurred regularly and the amount of crying increased.

THIS is interesting - not the nekkid part but the part about the facial expression. I'd love to hear from others about that.

I have an album of every school year photo and I have the same facial expression in every single one. Hair changes, clothes change, face is the same year after year after year. Identical expression.

Does anyone else see that in their childhood pictures?

My mother had 4 of us and I was the last. The first got this lovely baby book with everything filled in and the cards and gift tags carefully glued onto pages. The second and third each have baby books with scattered things - lots of blank pages. I didn't get a baby book. There are a few cards sent for my birth that got shoved into the back of my older sister's book.

What I've been told is what a good baby I was - didn't cry - didn't cause problems. Quiet and smiled alot. I guess that may be true. Either that or nobody noticed either way because there were just too many kids.

It isn't that way for all first-born, etc. My mother hated me because I was different than she was and she felt threatened by it and I paid a major price. I am the lowest on the totem pole in my family and have since given them up.

I have seen me under the age of 5 on 8mm film. And I acted like a poster child for autism.

HA - iSpy - I swatted my screen

So true, Meadow. I know my mom didn't mean it in a hurtful way, but she told me a few years back that I was so colicky and nocturnal as a baby and so serious as a toddler, that when she had my brother (who was a happy, smiley baby who slept at night), she thought, "So THIS is what babies are supposed to be like." Ouch! And I'm not a diagnosed Aspie, just kind of a neurological fence-sitter (loads of traits, but I manage OK), so I can't imagine what she would have thought had I had classic autism. Funnily enough, my eldest child was also insanely colicky, and she turned out NT (well, unless you count ADHD), while my son with AS was the easiest baby in the history of all babies. Only cried for basic needs, and was (and still is) very attached to me. He didn't sleep for more than 3 hours at a time until 11 months, though. But very easy otherwise.

I can't relate to this.