Were you different from ages 0 to 2?

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As a baby, I was completely content to be alone and stare at the picture over my crib. My mother has told me that she perceived my "loner" status by the time I was 5. I don't know how to separate the bio-chemical "fingerprint" of "nature" from the specific circumstances of one's "nurture"environment, though. Always interesting to observe, however! An older cousin tells me that when I was about 5, I would come into a room of relatives and just stand near the door and stare at everyone, as if I thought I was invisible...I think I may have believed that I was, so uncomfortable was I around people.

I could name what day of the week any date fell on at age 2
I couldn't sleep too well or too much
I was very quiet and passive
I couldn't digest food too well (I needed to drink bottle milk with rice in it)

I was overdue, was induced, and then there were some complications with the cord around my neck.

I was apparently a happy baby. I smiled and laughed a lot, and people would comment on how cheerful I was.

I was very difficult to get to sleep. My mother said that I didn't seem to be actively distressed; it seemed more that I was bored being left to just sleep/do nothing and wanted things to look at. My parents were so tired at one point because I kept them awake so much that the doctor prescribed me sedatives for two weeks. This was after they had tried putting whiskey in my bottle to make me sleep, which no doubt would get them arrested for child abuse these days.

Talked at an average age. Was a little late walking. Read early (age 2 1/2).

And

I had sensory issues already.
I didn't follow or protest when left.

Which is typical stuff I'd think?

So that's as much as I can come up with at the moment.

I have seen early photos. The baby pictures look totally normal. But after a certain age, I stopped looking at the camera. It's very striking. But I don't know if I otherwise changed. My mom was a terrific person, now deceased, but she was really in denial.

BTW, I have heard ear infections and tubes in ears are very common in ASD. But I don't know which comes first.
(I didn't.)

--des

Hovis, I think the doctors used to recommend the few drops of alcohol. I used to get tranquilizers in my bottle as a baby

Except for speaking, I was right on par or ahead with everything else. I could point to words and say them out loud at two, but I didn't speak regularly until I was four (see my latest topic for more information).

My parents say that I never cried but instead would scream as if I was being killed. My mom says says she swore up and down that I was going to make everyone deaf. I did not want to be held or cuddled and if anyone tried I would grab their face and squeeze or stratch them so hard it looked like a wild cat did it. The the vaccum cleaner was running or the air came on from the air conditioner I would scream. I was put in my pajamas I would scream. I could not sit up by myself until I was about a year or so. Didn't smile at people. Constantaly getting into things. I learned to walk late. I did not sleep but would scream all night. Until my parents took me in, not one foster family could handle me for more than one night. I had echolia but did not actualy speak until I was four. It was clearly obvious I was autistic but it was back in the late eighties before they diagnosed kids as young as they do now. I wasn't one of those kids who is born normal and then turns autistic at two or when they give them the vaccine, I was autistic from birth. Sometimes I wonder if the trama of being a foster child and being forced to go visit my biological mother (my mom says I would have a panic attack when I saw the social worker's car pulling into the driveway and had a phobia of cars going past the house until I was eight or nine) had someting to do with how dificult I was. I also do not have any memory before the age of four. Every shrink says it's becuase the early events of my life were so tramatic I blocked them out.

((((Punkycat)))) You write so nicely! How are you doing nowadays???

When I learnt to sit up as a baby, I randomly threw myself backwards when I was sat up. I don't think that's normal!

When I learnt to talk, I never shut up. And I randomly repeated stuff that I'd heard other people say earlier or heard on the TV.

Apparently, when I was little I was "either very happy or very angry". I had pretty bad tantrums. I never did what I was told. My dad said that as my language skills improved (which was thankfully quite quickly), and he was then able to tell me why I couldn't do stuff, I got less angry and I behaved better.

Yeah, autistic.

I threw tantrums whenever my parents did something new to my food (giving me solid food, for instance, or giving me a something I'd never tasted before). That actually continued way above the age of 2.

I also screamed as if they tried to kill me the first times they put on baby shoes on me.

Nope. My mum told me that I always had 'problems'.
And you know what? I was vaccinated when I was 5 and didn't have them all done. My mum didn't like the idea of having diseases put in me.

I know this is 2 years old but I found this thread very interesting.

Last Saturday my dad got out some old videos of me when I was a baby, and I was surprised because as I watched me sitting with other babies,
I was no different to them. I was a typical baby, and my mum says I wasn't delayed in anything, nor was I more clever than other babies in anything. I was a happy baby and was always smiling and laughing, and I babbled a lot before the age of 1, and I just played with toys as normal (I was never interested in other objects). I never had repetitive behaviour (actually, all children have repetitive behaviour at times - so if I was it was probably because I was playing typically). Every photo I have of me as a baby under 3 I was always smiling. I would post a picture of me as a small child on here, but I don't know how to do it.

I even didn't mind being touched. On one of the videos I saw me (aged 14 months) sitting on my dad's knee, and he was cuddling me and tickling me, and I was laughing away and looked like I wanted more.
Also, I saw a clip of me sitting in my high chair, and it didn't look like I was bother about what I was eating or how my food was laid out on the plate (I've never had that problem anyway). I was trying to babble, whilst making a mighty mess with the food on the high chair.
And, (this is the most strangest thing in the world), in another video of when I was 2 and a half at a cousin's birthday party, I saw me sitting in a circle of other children about my age and some a little bit older, playing pass the parcel, and I was joining in and knew what to do, but my NT cousin was there too, and she was a year older than me but didn't seem to want to play with the other children. She was just running onto the bouncy castle when it was empty, so she could have it all to herself.

I never showed any symptoms of AS, nor was I different to any other child - until the day I started school.
It seemed that all the other Aspies on here showed at least one symptom of AS when they were under 3, but I showed none, even at playgroup I mixed well with the other children. I remember playing with the other children at playgroup when I was 4, and I also remember talking to them and sharing toys. Usually by 4 you show some symptoms, but I never showed any.

What the hell happened between Sunday the 4th of September and Monday the 5th of September??? I went from normal to Autistic!