What kinda baby were you?

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My mom tells me that I was such a sleepy baby, she would have to wake me up for feedings and such...

I was very quiet and well-behaved. I slept a lot and ate everything.

Self contained, quiet and well behaved but forever asking questions about everything that I saw. My favourite phrases were apparently "Why? What's that?" And "What For?"

Well-behaved or "spooky" depending on which parent you ask. Pretty boring... or maybe "low maintenance" is the better term.

I was much smaller.

Used to crap myself a lot.

referred to as - a very happy baby,
translates to - neglected a lot and accepted it as the status quo

Supposedly, I screamed quite a bit as a toddler.

The first thing I said was 'bee bite' after I got stung by a bee when I was 6 months old. Until I was about a year and a half old all I would talk about was bees. I was a bee baby.

One who cried a lot. I had a lot of fears. I still do. >.<

I was a quiet baby, and I never went to sleep very easily. My mother said she would have to lay down with me to get me to go to sleep, and I would just lay there looking at her with my eyes wide open. I remember having the feeling that I was an adult in a little baby body.

Very insular, quiet, disinterested in other people but yet curious and perceptive. I don't remember any of it but apparently I purposely locked my parents out of the house and laughed about it at 3 years old lol. I also used to mimic animal and siren noises a lot (with accuracy) in place of real language. I don't believe I had any adverse reactions in regards to sensory overload but I was definitely undersensitive to multiple types of stimuli. I'd cry and have tantrums if routine was changed or if I really wanted to do something in my routine but wasn't able to. Like seeing specific animals, taking the same routes and driving in the same car around the same times of the day consistently. All of that happening while I was around 1 or 2 years old.

I also had feeding problems (sensitivities) up to my late teens when my oral sensitivity started to "relax". I hated showers and going to the toilet. I was afraid of the toilet flushing and showers felt way too overwhelming, I'd was terrified of them. I only took baths until age 8 or 10 I believe. Maybe even older, I can't remember, no older than 11 I'd say. Even then baths could still be bad because my mother would insist on using shampoo to wash my hair but I hated the sensation of water running over all of my head at once.

I'm not sure if other Autistic people experienced this as children but I can remember semi-hallucinating some what regularly between 4 and 6 or 7 years old. Mainly at night time though. I can remember having colored camera flash like blotches in my vision often too, especially a couple hours before bed. This went away as I got older though. No idea what that can be attributed to.

Just off the top of my head.

I was a very colicky baby. I cried a lot. I was more quiet and behaved as a toddler.

As a baby, I cried a lot, I think it was colic.

I didn't cry a lot, and I was seen as usually being a good/easy baby. I loved being around my family, and if they left the room, that was one thing that did make me cry. I loved being held and wanted their attention.
When I was about 6 months I loved jumping and took every opportunity I got to jump when they held me.

I slept in the day until I was about 1. After that I wasn't sleepy enough to go to sleep during the day, and only got sleepy around dinner time, which was too late to sleep, as I would then wake up at midnight and be ready for a new day. So after dinner, my parents had to keep me very occupied for a while, so I could go to sleep a bit later and need a full night's sleep.

Of course, as the Asperger's criteria says, I hit all the early milestones as I should; sat up, grabbed things, talked and walked at the right time. The only thing I never was into, was crawling; my mother has told me I didn't crawl much,and she thought that maybe I found it painful.

I did start speaking in one word utterings when I was about 10-11 months or so, and my language proceeded from one word to some words, but I wasn't very talkative until I was somewhere between 2 and 2 1/2, when I suddenly started talking in full sentences and had a lot to say to my family.
The only thing I had trouble with saying was the st sound, I would drop the s.

I liked getting reactions out of people. I don't recall this myself, my mother has told me that when I was about 2 1/2, I came home from daycare one day and went up to her and said a curse word. She says my eyes were glittering and I was looking at her with expectation and I was obviously waiting for a reaction. She assumed I had heard other kids say it in daycare and saw the aunts' reaction and wanted to try the same thing myself, so she took the fun out of it by not reacting so the phase would pass more quickly, which it did.

Seeing that some of you have talked about behavior at ages up to 3, I had to google just when a child stops being a baby per definition. I have always heard 1 year, that seems to be the norm here, but apparently in the US it can be anything between 1 and 4?

Even at that young age i could be very strong willed. My mother recalls seeing me play with two other girls around the age of 3 or so, and they tried to get me to take on a specific task in the game and I flat out refused and fisted my hands when they tried to shove the jumping rope into my hands so I could swing it.
I could also have a temper. I was fairly obedient but I also disobeyed at times. I knew right from wrong and a had a good understanding of what wasn't okay, but although usually pretty good, I didn't always act accordingly.
I was always well behaved when we went to stores or downtown, and I understood that I couldn't do the same things when we visited people as I could at home. I never wandered away from my family or group.

I loved playing games of course and I loved being read to. Although I played with other kids (usually the same few), I was happy to be by myself or with family and I never longed for other kids when they weren't around. In daycare I would even go to the fence in order to daydream alone.

I was unwilling to try new foods at all ages as a kid. There were lots of food that were icky in some way or other and meals, especially dinner, could be a horrible chore for both me and my parents at that age. My mother once gave me chocolate milk to do something nice for me, but it just resulted in me crying and not wanting to taste it at all. Of course, I got the taste for it pretty quickly, but not the first time I had it.
Strangely, chocolate was never a problem!

In my own little world. Not very responsive. When most people tried to get me to smile or whatever I would turn away from them and or hide my face with a blanket. Mostly quiet unless something unexpected happened. Got night terrors. My heath was fragile.