If you are developmentally delayed, are you still delayed?

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just a question, i was delayed SEVERELY in hand-eye cordnation which really worried my parents, social skills were delayed for a long long time, Motor skills were delayed but not enough to delay my walking, just other things like swimmng and bike riding. but my speach was fine. Im still delayed, im not passing the milestones all my peers are. Are you delayed or Advanced?

I can't really go into detail of my delays. It's really hard to explain. I also wasn't exactly severely delayed either. Maybe mild or moderate delayed, but I wasn't like on a severe scale or anything.

Mild global delay.

Too many options; I can't really make sense of them. Kind of like a fast-food menu board.

Um...I was definitely delayed behaviorally and socially. I would act out or make strange noises as a kid, and I had a hard time making and keeping friends. Socially I never improved very much; I was made to feel ashamed of my behavior so I learned to hide my eccentricities as much as I could. As for education, I had a hard time following directions--probably due to sensory overload and anxiety. I struggled with math for years until finally retaking it almost from the beginning in community college, but I excelled in language, writing, and history because those were the subjects I cared most about. People always comment on my skills in those areas, and how neat my handwriting is.

But for the most part, yes, I am still significantly delayed. I freeze up, I mumble my words, I don't pick up on social cues and I can't handle adult commitments. I'm basically a kid only pretending to belong in an adult's body. And I never really wanted to grow up, even though I had an unhappy childhood. Perhaps because the most influential adults in my life were not very happy either.

Behind my peers? yes, my coordination overall is awful and I still speak with a lisp. Overall it has very little effect on my functioning tough because I have dropped most of the activities that caused the most trouble, learned to deal and with practice have closed the gap considerately in other areas, it just isn't always graceful or pretty. My fine motor skills are actually very good at some tasks like typing or playing my guitar, it just takes insane amounts of practice or I have to take my time. My skill sets are scattered. It gets very frustrating when your trying to say something and people keep asking you to repeat because you can't physically cay the word right.

Early/on-time in some things, varying degrees of late in others.

My development was uneven, and today my abilities/skills remain uneven.