Callista wrote:
Who_Am_I wrote:
Who cares if it does? Looking, or even being ret*d doesn't make a person any less of a person.
Really, if I wanna flap my hands I'm gonna do it. It helps me think sometimes and I've already decided not to try to look normal. Not looking "ret*d" isn't even on my list of priorities.
I used to try to behave as normally as I could, from standing there doing absolutely nothing to copying actions that other people who were seen as 'normal' did, but it makes no difference. No matter what I do or don't do, something is still wrong and people stare at me. I don't bother now. If I feel a wish/need to do something (pacing is my big stim) I do it.
pumibel wrote:
You know, when I was a kid I did a lot of pacing and spinning and my mom would often make me stop in public and told me that people would think I was "ret*d" but it wasn't to be cruel.
I clearly remember just playing a game on my own in the garden, and my mother telling me to stop it or come inside because people were going to think I was crazy. I was six years old at the time. Children are children, AS or non-AS. Unless they are doing something utterly bizarre, is anyone really going to think that a person of that age is anything other than what they are - a child playing?