When I was at Primary School I made a friend in whom I am still friends with to this day at Age 32. Although we don’t live in the same town anymore we are still in touch.
I have been thinking about his behaviour especially when we were at school. We formed a friendship simply because we were both in the playground on our own he was one side I would be at the other end.
As a person he had some odd behaviour and odd habits. For example his Special Interest is Doctor Who. There is being obsessed with something then there is being really being obsessed with something. I remember going around his house and he had every episode available on VHS he catalogued every episode in order on a bookshelf. On the side of the bookshelf he had a checklist of every episode in order. Anything he liked it would be a very over the top obsession. When was 11 he had an eating disorder and ended up in hospital over it.
There was some other oddities as well which makes me suspect that is hard to explain. I know he doesn’t always understand things like sarcasm I remember something being sarcastic about his dress sense and he took it as a compliment.
Ironically when I went to secondary school I had to go to a different secondary school to the rest of my class because of being Autistic. He decided to go to the same secondary school as me. And with an Autistic unit there they never recognised any behaviour in him and he was also banned from the Autistic classroom and the people who were in charge of the class didn’t like me friends with him. Also an irony as they were trying to help us be more sociable.
20 Aug 2018, 6:23 am
