When did you start to know you were different?

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15 Oct 2008, 10:13 am

First day of kindergarden. All downhill from there. :(


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15 Oct 2008, 10:17 am

As long as I know, I've always felt a certain distance away from other people. D:

Here (where I live, not WP), I'm forced to mix. At least people are now a bit more understanding than they were. I had a staff where I live react without much understanding when I told him that the jokes he played toward me about getting punishments were not funny to me.


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15 Oct 2008, 11:57 am

At age 3 during dress rehearsal for my ballet recital. Getting shepherded on and off the big stage with a bunch of quiet, docile little girls in fluffy tutus, I was the only one shrieking "MOTHER!"



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15 Oct 2008, 3:40 pm

Second grade. I started singing a complicated Nirvana song in the middle of class and everyone stared at me.



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15 Oct 2008, 3:45 pm

Age 4. I was put in playgroup twice a week, and while all the other children used to play with the toys, I used to try (and often succeed) in escaping the room and exploring the building.

My parents knew I was different long before then, but did nothing about it.


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15 Oct 2008, 4:40 pm

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I think I've always known I was different for as long as I can remember. I never specifically thought there was really something about me, I just noticed I wasn't like everyone else. My mom noticed probably before I was able to notice (or remember it). I just saw myself like everyone else, just different. As I got older and more aware of myself and others (and after being diagnosed between fifth and sixth grade), I REALLY started to notice what was so different about me and even started to understand why people thought I was weird and avoided and/or made fun of me. Thing is, I'm still picked on, and I COULD act differently and more like an NT but I don't want to have to reprogram my whole self just to fit in. I have some really great friends who genuinely love the real Aspie me and love me the way I am. So changing myself wouldn't really be a good thing. Besides, why can't THEY change THEMSELVES to be more accepting to differences? Why must I be the one to change just to fit in the NT dominated world? Sorry for going on ranting. -Power Girl


Good rant though. I love the attitude. I think more of us (myself included) would be better off with that sort of attitude.



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15 Oct 2008, 7:25 pm

Thanks MeloJag! That was nice of you to say so. -Power Girl



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15 Oct 2008, 7:33 pm

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When did you start to know you were different? Why? How could you tell?

Back in early elementary school, when I could recite the entire alphabet and count up to 700 by 7's before the other kids could even tell the difference between letters and numbers, and the teacher told my parents that there must be something wrong with me because I seemed to enjoy making the other kids look bad.

I didn't! I just liked having the right answer before anyone else, and I could not understand why doing so was not easy for everyone else, too.


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15 Oct 2008, 7:41 pm

Second grade.

Thats when my parents moved and I lost all my friends... and never found new ones until years later (and even when I have, it's always been short lived).



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15 Oct 2008, 8:27 pm

I can't remember a time when I didn't know. I didn't know there was a word for it. I didn't know there were others for a while.

As a kid, I always narrated what was going on in my head, as though I was writing a book. It took me a while to realize that not everyone is doing that all of the time.



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15 Oct 2008, 8:32 pm

People have said I talk like a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, textbook, robot, computer, and others sometimes. This happens mostly when I explain things as its just how I do things. I sometimes refer to myself in computer/robotic terms because its easier. I also come off as really smart because I have a long memory, I remember details, I have a big vocabulary, and I read a lot. -Power Girl



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15 Oct 2008, 8:40 pm

First Grade-ish



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15 Oct 2008, 8:48 pm

at then tender age of 6.


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15 Oct 2008, 8:51 pm

All my life. I have never experienced any other way.



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16 Oct 2008, 12:57 pm

I'm not really sure, probably around 4th maybe 5th grade. I changed schools in 4th grade and everyone treated me different. I wasn't good at or interested in sports, so that was held against me. The fact I was ahead of my class in some areas didn't help either.

At my previous school, some kids thought I was different, but it didn't seem to matter. They pretty much left me alone and some did have some respect for me, because I was near the top of the class academically.

The older I got, the more I realized I was different.


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16 Oct 2008, 3:21 pm

In first grade (age 7), the teacher would have me stay after school, so she could ask me questions & tape record our conversations - so she noticed, even if I didn't.

In second grade, the teasing started - so I couldn't miss the fact that I was "different," because my classmates would never let me forget it.


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