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weeOne
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10 Aug 2012, 10:12 am

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Everyone knew there was SOMETHING very 'wrong' with me as a child, but no one knew what.

Yes, and multiply this by 4 of 5 children in my family. I'm 55, and there was no way diagnosis was an option back then unless perhaps a superhero had arrived on our doorstep.

If Doctor Aspie-vision had been around, I would've been noticed not walking until around 18 months. My brothers and I all had something going on at all times. It was quite a hectic household, to say the least, and I have to say after thinking about it, I'd be amazed that we all slipped past the corrections armada of teachers and vice-principals if it weren't for the fact that we moved to different countries every two years or so until I was 11. At that point, my guess is that we were just seen as troublesome by the establishment.



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10 Aug 2012, 10:34 am

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This is a question for those diagnosed in adulthood and those not diagnosed who believe they have an ASD: if awareness of the autism spectrum had been at the level it is now in your childhood, do you think you would have been diagnosed?.


I don't know really. I doubt it though. I am from a large family and there probably wasn't the time to notice subtle behavioural things. I had a brain scan after some eplieptic episodes at the age of 12 which found some abnormality and I was put on tablets for anxiety. But nothing further was ever investigated. I don't think in those days there was awareness.


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11 Aug 2012, 9:27 am

Doubtful.

As a kid, I was pathologically well-behaved.

My mother claims she only ever had to "correct" me when I did a "naughty" thing once, and then I would never do it again. When I was six, she would go to the store and leave me in charge of both the house and my sister (who is five years older than me). When it came time for potty training, she sat me down, explained the concept, and, from that point onward, I was potty trained. I only ever had one "accident."

I always made a supreme effort to follow the rules. Being a "good kid" was part of my identity as well as a reaction to my predisposition towards anxiety. If I followed the rules, than nothing "unexpected (and frightening)" could happen. Besides, I couldn't emotionally tolerate being yelled at or spanked (my mother was fond of doing both).

What parent could possibly complain about a kid like me?

Of course, after having read a few things about typical child development, I'm realizing that a child who rarely speaks, even when directly spoken to, has little to no interest in exploring their environment, and clings to "goodness" like a life raft isn't really developmentally "normal."


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11 Aug 2012, 10:18 am

I'm sure that if I was a kid now I would have been diagnosed with something. I was sent to so many special classes and schools as a kid and even did a 30 day evaluation in a mental hospital.



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11 Aug 2012, 12:15 pm

XFilesGeek wrote:
Doubtful.

As a kid, I was pathologically well-behaved.

My mother claims she only ever had to "correct" me when I did a "naughty" thing once, and then I would never do it again. When I was six, she would go to the store and leave me in charge of both the house and my sister (who is five years older than me). When it came time for potty training, she sat me down, explained the concept, and, from that point onward, I was potty trained. I only ever had one "accident."

I always made a supreme effort to follow the rules. Being a "good kid" was part of my identity as well as a reaction to my predisposition towards anxiety. If I followed the rules, than nothing "unexpected (and frightening)" could happen. Besides, I couldn't emotionally tolerate being yelled at or spanked (my mother was fond of doing both).

What parent could possibly complain about a kid like me?

Of course, after having read a few things about typical child development, I'm realizing that a child who rarely speaks, even when directly spoken to, has little to no interest in exploring their environment, and clings to "goodness" like a life raft isn't really developmentally "normal."
The same goes for me. It's the main thing that sets my daughter and I apart and how I didn't see we were alike, until I started to read up on ASDs.


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11 Aug 2012, 12:29 pm

I'm fairly young, so I don't know what it was that made them not notice it... I remember being shy, not talking to other kids as much, and being withdrawn. But I guess I was so mild that no one noticed enough to say anything about it. I never went to preschool, so maybe they didn't really get a chance to see my sociability as much? Whatever it was that they didn't notice, it's undeniable that I have it now.



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11 Aug 2012, 1:13 pm

Would I have been diagnosed as a child?

If a child nowadays act like I used to in school, I suppose that he/she would be sent of to the psychologist pretty quickly. First, in kindergarten, as I didn't speak at all in the first year - I still remember feeling no connection to these people who were doing strange and often frightening things, later for temper tantrums that look a lot like meltdowns, often provoked by fearful events. Only that they were only frightening to me, not to the rest of the class. Even once hit the teacher, when I felt I had been punished unfairly.

At the time (seventies) it lead to repeated embarrassing comments in the monthly bulletins, which worried my parents. And nobody tried to do anything about the relentless bullying, I just got told that I should defend myself. Only I had no idea how to do that.