When did you stop being spoon fed?

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When did you stop being spoon fed? And when did you start dressing by yourself completely?

I stopped being spoon fed when I was about 9, and I started dressing myself completely around the age of 11. Does this indicate anything?

I could feed myself at about 3 or 4. I could dress myself at 5.

Sounds like typical autistic lack of coordination. My son, who has AS and is pretty high-functioning, still cannot tie his shoes. I wouldn't worry or compare yourself to others. Everyone is different.

I don't know when I stopped being spoon fed, but my dad would cut my food up for me until I was 15 and then my mom probably continued for a few years after that.

I'm still horrible at it and struggle but I'm old enough that I don't want someone doing this for me anymore.

As for dressing, I still can't do that. It's so hard to get shirts off and it takes me forever to get dressed. I was probably average age when I started doing this on my own though. I have a twin sister who is... more advantaged than myself... and she would help.

I was feeding myself at a fairly normal age, and dressing myself likewise - though my mother probably despaired at how little I ate, and I still have little fashion sense. Shoe tying, however, I didn't get the hang of until I was sixteen. Seriously. I couldn't figure it out by twelve or so, and had velcro strap shoes for years. When I got to about sixteen, my mother tried again and I rote learned how to tie shoes. I can do shoes and ties, but I get utterly flummoxed by being shown most knots and I cannot put on a tie while looking in the mirror. I do so without looking ahead, which baffles my partner.

I cannot ride a bike. I know I could learn now, but it would take effort and I no longer have any reason to do so.

Sometime before I got divorced...

My mom could never spoon-feed me. I went straight from breast-feeding to the "smash the hand into the food and suck the resulting mash off the fingers" method--I should know, my baby albums are full of pictures of me playing with food. Apparently, I always moved and she ended up jabbing me with the spoon and getting food all over the place. Spoon-feeding takes communication between the mom and the baby, and if the baby is hyper and has no clue how to predict Mom's movements, it usually ends up with mashed carrot getting in somebody's eye.

Dressing myself... ehh, four, I guess. Pretty typical. No problems with fine motor skills for me.

I was spoon fed?

I never had problems with feeding myself, but I don't think I dressed myself completely (except for laced shoes) until I was 6 or 7 or something. The problem with getting dressed wasn't motor skills, it was just I didn't know how to do it.

I was able to dress myself at the age of 4 and I was able to feed myself at the age of 2. My dad cut up my food for me until I was 7. I was able to cut my own food at the age of 8.

I thought this was going to be about spoon fed information for some reason........when it should be the other way around I should be taking the phrase spoon fed literally thinking it actually means spoon fed not taking the literal term spoon fed figuratively.

I still use a spoon.

My mother had 6 more children within 11 years of my birth so it was do or die - sort of. I don't remember learning to do anything basic. I've always known so I must have learned before I was 2 or 3..

I could dress myself around age three, tie my shoes at age six, brush my teeth at age six, brush my hair when I was eight, wash my hair when I was nine but mom did it until I was ten. I think I learned to zip zippers when I was five because I remember my teacher keeping me inside from recess until I could zip up my coat and it was in preschool. So I kept trying until I did it because the teacher wouldn't help me. She thought I was refusing to do it and I didn't know how to tell her to help me zip it up and that I didn't know how to do it or that I had troubles with it. So she kept me inside until I zipped my coat up which was ironic because it was a special school for kids with development delays and she couldn't assume I was maybe having a hard time with it?

I took the title literal thinking when did I start to eat on my own. I was a year old when I could feed myself.

I can't remember when I stopped being spoon-fed. I don't really know what spoon-fed is. Does it mean the child needs somebody else to put the spoon into his or her mouth for her, or is it when a child learns to eat with a knife and fork?

I used to eat on my own with a spoon when I was about 1 and a half I think. And I first used a knife and fork when I was 6.

I stopped being spoonfed around age three or four.