What were you like as a kid?

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I behaved typically severely autistic.
I started talking a little and interacting with family some when I was around 8 years old.
School has been private special ed for autism, so no problems fitting in.

Aspie female here. Overall, I was paradoxically extremely both tomboyish and academic, and I am still like this today as an adult!

I hated most girl games like House. Never could get into Barbies, either. Loved sports, ninjas, comic strips and cartoons with lots of fighting and explosions. I once dumped a boy on his head when he picked on me. I played lots of football and basketball. I never did learn how to ride a bike or swim, though. I had/still have some minor motor and spatial deficits due to autism, but not enough to prevent me from otherwise mostly sporty tendencies.

Loved school. Loved the process of learning, getting high grades, doing well on tests. Liked to follow the rules. Corrected fellow students, and even my teachers, when they were wrong. Excelled especially in writing. Spoke and wrote early. Put into accelerated language classes from an early age. High verbal IQ. Things like spelling and grammar were never difficult. Average at math and some parts of science. Could nonetheless do well in those subjects as well WHEN I chose to put in the effort.

I think I socialized better when I was a kid. As I got older, I found people constantly telling me I was strange or weird, and this made me shrink socially.

That's about it.

I was outgoing but in a inappropriate ways. I wanted friends and tried to make them but always just said the wrong thing and was super awkward. In 3rd grade I was so disruptive that my teacher kept my desk in the hallway, away from all the other kids. I couldn't really read, or tell time or anything until 4th grade when I got a truly amazing teacher and by 5th grade I was reading at a 10th grade level. By high school I really started shutting up and just focused on sports and made a lot of friends that way. I was still super awkward and didn't really get good at pretending to be someone else until college and lots of alcohol. Basically I had a great childhood:)