Did you have anger issues as a child?

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While researching Asperger's and girls it mention boys having agression leading to getting an evaluation and a diagnosis while girls tend to show there emotions or whatever. So I was think for guys and girls on the spectrum did you have anger issues as a child? I did and yet nothing was done. What's your take?

I had major anger issues as a child, and the fact that my parents spanked me didn't help me, much. All that I've learned from those spankings, was that it was okay to pound on my bullies, if they made me angry. I'm not anything like that, anymore.

I had anger issues too. It got to the point where I had to bottle up my anger because people were deliberately trying to make me lose my temper because they thought it was funny. Unfortunately this left me depressed and with several anxiety issues.

Yup...I was born with an overdose of rage and I've always had it.

I'm female and I always used to have huge tantrums. ^^; I think that's one of the main reasons I got sent to a special middle school, since I didn't stop having fits in class until I was about 15. After that I just stopped getting angry for some reason.

I was very withdrawn and so they worked at helping me show my feelings, which I did by throwing things at my sister. I remember in a kiddie play therapy group some girl messed up my drawing. I was furious but I never said a word.

I had alot of anger issues when I was younger and still have today... It was alot more worse when I reached the age of 15.
But there difference was that I was to literally throw a massive tantrum that you wouldn't want to be in the same room as me back then. and it would of been because of the bullying I had and I would come home feeling so angry that I would of wrecked the whole of my room...

Now, I still get anger issues depending on whatever but instead it would turn into frustration and i tend to shout at the ones that would of gotten me angry due to whatever reason but also I would end up birsting into tears occasionally but don't tend to throw things anymore which i think ive probably seem to grow myself out of..... Sometimes, I still feel like a little kid in an adults body.

Not too much, but when I used to get angry I (I still do) would end up breaking a lot of things - sometimes rather valuable. I also remember getting very frustrated with my best friend in Primary School in Year 5, only to strangle him.

I still get very angry and throw and break stuff but now I also take it out on myself instead of others. I do get very tempted to shout at people in Supermarkets when they rub up against me or make me feel claustrophobic. And I am sure one day I will tell them up front.

Thinking back on stuff makes me grit my teeth with anger!

I had a lot of anger issues but normally I bottled them up until I got home. I tried never to show my anger in front of people, only my family whom I was the most comfortable with. Sometimes I would take it out on my mom and sisters. Other episodes mostly involved breaking objects, tearing my hair out, hitting myself, cutting myself, and banging my head against the wall. I had to take a lot of anger management and therapy because of this. I also had 3 suicidal attempts which put me in a lot of psych wards. Up until I was an adult I was not diagnosed for aspergers so no one really knew what to do with me.

As for emotions, I was never one to show my emotions. I often tried to keep a low profile and had a very hard time relating to people on an empathetic level. It was very hard for me to reciprocate or express emotions in the same way neurotypicals usually do. Because of this, I was often misread for being a snob or taken to be someone who didn't care. I cared but I just couldn't laugh or cry or share enthusiasm the way most kids did.

I wish that I wasn't like that, as a child. I wish that I would have been the same, as I am, now.

oh yes. but i kind of still do

Yes.
Still do.

Mostly reactions against mean people,
I scream and throw things if they
are mean to me.

Those that are not mean/never were
can't imagine i'm that kind of person
until they see someone be mean to me.