Did you like to stay in hospital as a child?

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Just out of curiosity, I wonder if it's an Aspie trait or not. Usually I felt myself so well at hospital as a child on several occasions that my mom was indeed worried about me. I was either left alone but cared for attentively which I liked, or played with an occasional friend so naughtily that once one of the nurses had to intervene by saying she would give us a prick unless we go to our beds and sleep immediately. I remember I saw that dreaded instrument in her hand while I was eagerly imitating sleeping in my bed...

Maybe I was so clueless I didn't fully realize what this place was for.

Can you relate to this?

I have found hospitals can be a bit comforting. For example, I don't have to do anything or worry about anything. If I am hungry I can press a button and a nurse will bring me food. I can lay in bed and watch tv or listen to music all day. I can even sleep all day and nobody will get mad or call me lazy. I don't mind needles either. My parents thought I was weird, but I liked hospitals.

Too bright...

I found them interesting. Then I realised how many needles were involved...

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I had surgeries when young and stayed in hospitals a couple of weeks at a time during summer so I wouldn't miss school and I was miserable.

I was so bored. Toward the end of my stay, it was a waiting game with the doctor to see if he'd release me. It seemed to take forever. On the day I thought I'd be released, the Doctor didn't show, so I was stuck another day.

The food was terrible. And the patients were worse off than I so there was no one to talk to or run around with. The nurses didn't want us running around, anyway.

Not to mention all the blood tests, I.V. needles and injections. It was horrible! Couldn't wait to go home!

No. Needles never phased me but I liked just wanted to go home back to my established routine. I never stayed in a regualr hospital for more than one night and my mom got to stay with me. When I had my hystorectomy and had to spend the night I was too out of it to notice anything. I went home the next day anyway.

I've pretty much never been to a hospital, except to visit my newly-born niece (who by the way turns 3 tomorrow ) and to have a brain scan and injections.

Never liked hospitals: too much light, too much noise, too many people, couldn't go outside and be alone in nature, unfamiliar environment.

Kind of. I liked to stay in the hospital because I could wear my pajamas all day. Plus I got to nap as much as I liked. What I didn't like was the needles. It took my mom and two nurses to put an iv in my arm.lol

Heck, no. Hospitals are horrid. Noisy, no privacy, too bright...

Though I suppose if I'd been hospitalized during the times when my mom was married to socoiopathic guys, I would've liked it just because nobody was threatening to yell in my ear or slap me across the face.

I never stayed in one as a child.

Never stayed in one as a child, but I can tell you I would have hated every second of it. I have had to recently, and hated every second. I'm absolutely positive if I had to as a child, I probably would have had a freak out melt down.

I have never liked anything about hospitals. They're stark, cold, they never give enough blankets or pillows and if you ask for more they act like you're asking for gold bricks or something. The food SUCKS, the beds are uncomfortable, and they MAKE you wear that effing gown.

Why on EARTH anyone would enjoy any of that, is beyond me. The first of the two times I did stay overnight, I signed a one of those stupid forms that says, "against medical advice."

Hospitals suck.

Yes and no. I spent most of a year in hospital as a child so I missed out a lot socially. I was just beginning to make friends and when I came back everyone stayed away from me because they thought that I was contageous.

I found that they kept changing things like my room, wouldn't let me stay in my pygamas even though I was in agony because it made the hospital look bad, a nurse chased me to try and brush my hair once which wasn't fun. I was in a ward so I didn't like being around most of the other children with the exception of one or two. I liked the time alone but felt a little lonely, I was 10 I think. I hated needles and they kept needing more blood for tests. I never will get over my hospital experience, it has scarred me in some ways. Nobody ever told me what was going on, I'm pretty sure I've had exploratory surgery at least once and nobody would even tell me that much.

I know I was having meltdowns ALL the time when I had to stay on the mental unit. Their solution was to pump me full of drugs? They MAKE you wear the gown? How? Do they threaten to drug you if you don't? I just did when I had my hystorectomy because I wanted my uterus out so bad I didn't want to fight anyone. Besides, I was going to be out of it pretty soon anyway and I didn't want to have to struggle getting my shorts on and off everytime I had to go to the bathroom and I didn't want them rubbing up against where they opened me up. But anyway, when I had the chicken pox and had to go to the doctor, they tried to make me wear one. It resulted in an epic meltdown. Anyway, just how do they "make" you?

No. I've always hated going anywhere, and that includes hospitals.

I always HATED doctors, hospitals and nures. I still do. I don't know how any one could ejoy being in places like that.
In my mind all doctors and peole like that either want me dead or want to hurt me.