Possible spectrum disorder I have been dealing with?

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As a child I was always strange, but my parents just thought I was a little "Jim Carey." I was signed up for baseball, but, somehow I always ended up in the field with my glove over my face rocking side to side. Also I used to spin in circles everyday when I was six years old, it ended when I was around eleven years of age. Back to the baseball topic, I do not recall talking to any of my teammates, in fact I never did. When it was time for basketball to start up I was about eleven, I only talked to one kid who was identified as, "The Weird Kid." When soccer came I didn't even try to converse, basically I waited for them to talk to me.

Now lets discuss school, and yes I was given an IEP. So, when school was in session I never listened and was preoccupied with the smallest of things. I was considered the naughty kid. Mainly because I did my own thing and hated listening to others.

I was put into social skills around the 4th grade. I attended it for two years three days a week. It did really help me because I used began using manors, maintaining a better eye contact then before, and handling anger.

When high school started I began falling into a fashion scene, never thought for myself, just went along with the status quo. I did talk to people and showed a good amount of social skills. As I began to get betrayed, lied to, and made fun of. It was clear that I was not fit for my clothes, meaning that I was clearly not the person I looked to be. So, that being, I changed near the end of grade eleven, and began a familiar style of life that I used to lead. I started to understand that I had to be myself, the only problem was that the real me had some problems that I struggled to hide for far to long.

My current symptoms:
1) I hate long conversations and will end them quickly.
2) I don’t talk much at school, I really only open up to my family and 3 friends. Two of which have an autism spectrum disorder.
3) Finger fidgeting like twisting, curling fingers with one hand while walking.
4) I walk rather strangely.
5) Answers are short and quick to most people.
6) I try to make eye contact but can’t sustain it for to long.
7) I don’t listen to other people, and will not remember any problem they tell me.
I can be very childish and hyper sometimes.
9) I struggle to make my voice higher due to my mono-toned voice.

Early Childhood symptoms:
I learned to conquer these through a social skills program:
1) Spinning in circles
2) Constantly spinning things
3) Didn’t respond to my name after it was called 4 times by my daddy. (Baby years)
4) Interrupting people
5) Temper Tantrums
6) Sharing proved very difficult
When I was turning nine, I remember wandering off from my friends at my own party, it was like I didn’t want to be with them.

Dear readers,

The smiley with the bogus glasses, must of been a typo, my greatest appologies.

Cheers,
Cole

Yep, sounds like you could be on the spectrum. My guess is Asperger's.

Just curious: did you have any special interests?

You said you were on an IEP - were you diagnosed with anything? I wasn't aware that you could go on it without a diagnoses. Of course in my day there was no such thing as an IEP, just remedial classes.

P.S we all have that smiley problem when listing '8'.

Well, I was obsessed with lord of the rings and spider all throughout elementry school. Now a days my intrests consist of Biology, Chemistry, and Astronomy. I must say they are quite strong interests.

The deal with my IEP is unkown to me. I think my mom is hiding something from me, and im struggling to find out why i have it.

You sound like an Aspie to me!

My mom, finally told me that I have central auditory processing disorder. Not sure what this means or if it has any relation with high functioning autism but oh well.