when did you first realize you were different?

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In elementary school. It was alot of things different with me but the biggest at the time was my weight. I was on the chubby side and I used to get picked on by other kids by the way i walk, talk, and acted.

Before I went to kindergardern I had one friend who we did everything together. My parents noticed I did not make eye contact but other than that I was normal they just though I was shy. My mother dropped me off at kindergarden she noticed all the other kids were screaming and crying while I sat there starring at the top of a tree you could see from our second floor class room not caring about anything. She waved goodbye and considered herself lucky that I was a big boy who handled himself well in this new environment.

When the students stopped crying and the teacher got the kids to settle down. Everyone that sat at the table with me made it their mission to pick on me. It was the first time ever I was picked on. When I asked them not to sit close to me they leaned over closer making faces and eeeewwww sounds at me.

I guess all the weird kids got lumped into one class. We had to do a pre-screening test before being allowed in the kindergarden. I was asking too many questions, refusing to do some stuff, and I was slow at everything but I knew all my abc's and could count to 10 so they figured i was just being difficult. Out of my kindergarden class had 4 went on to special education and 2 went on to gifted classes by sixth grade.

When I entered kindergarten and I saw all the other kids crying. I was happy to go and learn! I remember remarking to my mother "What's wrong with these kids? Why are they crying? What's to be sad about?" I really couldn't understand why they couldn't be away from their moms!

I guess from that point I figured I was "special." Most of my teachers really liked me and encouraged my creativity and eagerness to learn EVERYTHING. I never felt bad about my weirdness until middle school.

When I was in kindergarten a great deal of my troubles started to surface as, I had problems with my motor coordination wherein; yuou did not see me doing a great deal of activities on the playground.2nd, I had trouble learning various aspects of language including my handwriting was & is attrocious..

I remember kindergarten being fairly normal; it's grade one that I really felt 'different'. Though I managed to become somewhat familiar with a few kids, I opted to be more of a loner, and spent all my recesses alone up until 4th grade. I started to feel worse and worse about my differences, and tried desperately to fit in, which obviously did not work.

around 5 years old. maybe a bit earlier.

Around 9? Honestly everyone let me be their "friends" jst so they could tease me but I didn't pick up on it. Once I did, I became a loner.

ive totally been there! until one day this girl said "were not laughing with you, were laughing at you" she actually had a little sympathy for me, but her "herd mentality" made her continue with the taunting.