Anyone NOT show any Autistic traits as a baby?

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Seems that lots of people on WP wrote that you had shown at least one visible sign of Autism as a baby, or if not, shown something that was different for a baby.

So far I feel like an exception, so I was wondering if there was anyone else who didn't show any signs of AS as a baby. It worries me, because I wonder if I developed this AS through babyhood, because when I was 1 and a half, my mum said I accidentally smashed my head into a glass cabinet and had to be rushed to hospital and have stitches. Maybe that was responsible. But I still never shown any Aspie signs after that, because my mum said there was no different in my behaviour. The first time I ever shown anything different was on my first day of school, which was at 4 years old. Before then, I never showed anything what looked different to typically developing babies, and my mum knew a lot of other parents with babies of the same age as me, so noticing different traits can be easier.

All of my family are NTs, so I was wondering if I was supposed to be an NT too, but something unfortunate happened which made me Aspie. My mum said I did bang my head a few other times aswell. But then again, don't most babies bang their heads?

Although we didn't know about AS then, there still wasn't any traits that differed me from the other babies and children. And I've got lots of videos filmed of me as a baby, and the other day I watched them, and studied me and my behaviour very carefully. One of them was of me as a 7-month-old baby. I was sitting on my mum's lap, playing with a set of toy keys, just grasping them tightly in my hands and biting them and dribbling everywhere, which is typical in babies. Then my dad lifted me off my mum's lap to put me in my highchair, and as he was carrying me I waved my arms about and laughed, as though I was really excited about something. Then I was babbling when I was in my highchair, and was trying to grab the spoon as my dad was trying to feed me with it. I seemed to love attention from other people.

I didn't really show any asperger's traits as a baby either.

I know that I had a difficult birth and I screamed a lot during my first several months and that I was overall quite miserable up until a certain age. I started talking at 10 months and I learned to walk without having crawled... But I was quite normal: I liked attention and played with toys.

Last edited by Zexion on 16 Jul 2011, 7:38 am, edited 1 time in total.

banging your head does NOT change your neurology, people are BORN with AS exclusively

Many of our parents never noticed anything, ever all, we were the apple of there eys, the joy of there life - why would they look for something wrong? my mother thought I was perfect and still does.

I think you're looking for an overly convoluted explanation when the simpler one makes more sense: your mother didn't know a lot about AS, only when with your peers in the class did it become obvious, just like many of us.

I was too young to rememeber.

I watched old videos of me as a baby and observed my behaviour, because I could now see if anything was different, and under 4 years old, I never done anything that makes me look like I've got a disorder.

lol!

Beat me to it.

Well apart from randomly walking into walls..... no, i wouldn't say i was any different.

But babies are babies.... is there really much of a difference between them. The all cry and throw their toys out of their pram.... we just happen to continue the behaviour onto a later age.

I too have watched videos of me as a baby but the signs are pretty obvious to me. I showed no interest in people. I showed a lot of interest in the camera but not who was behind it (Grandad mainly). I rocked, stacked blocks and did this weird thing where I would completely 'shut down' whenever adverts came on the TV. Some people are suggesting I might have more classic autism though (I didn't babble at all either) because the traits are much harder to spot in an AS baby, especially a girl.

Well I know that every baby is different. I used to work in a nursery with 2 to 4 year olds, and they did repetitive behaviour. Some of them were taking in turns going down the slide, over and over again, for ages. I got quite dizzy watching them.

I have a 4-year-old boy next door to me, who is (as far as I know) neurotypical, and last year we got invited round for Christmas dinner, and the little boy was playing with a soft ball. He kept on throwing it up in the air repeatedly, only throwing it in different ways, like head-butting it, then the next time kicking it, then the next time elbowing it, et cetera. I've read somewhere that kids do learn their motor skills by repetitive behaviour when they're small.

When did you start to show signs? In childhood or adulthood? Autism is not adult-onset, and must be present at least to some extent from birth. Many parents do not realize it until the age of 3 or so (sometimes even much older for Aspies), but then can look back at small things that were there that they didn't notice. Autism is something people are born with though, not something that is later developed as we age.

I have looked back at old videos and photos of me as a baby. In almost every photo I was smiling, or playing with toys, or going to bite a toy. In the videos I don't notice any differences to any other child. I first shown my symptoms when I started school on the first day, when apparently I was so frightened that I couldn't cope for about a week, and so misbehaved. All the teachers thought it was from neglect at home, but my parents weren't ever like that, and it took a few years to find out that it was AS (which explains all the anxieties I used to get at primary school, from routine change and unplanned events).

I talked around one year of age, but I didn't walk until closer to two years of age. I didn't play with toys, but I liked crafts and reading, and also buildng forts to hide out in. I was involved in a lot of sports and activities but it was because my parents put me in them, and I just did what they said. I was never good at sports that needed teamwork, unless I had an independent role. I played goal in soccer and I was a star goalie, I played baseball, and I was a sought after pitcher. I was also very competitive in swimming. I was always terrified of people, gatherings, and strangers. I have never been able to handle change, make decisions, and have always had extreme sensory issues. I've never had groups of friends, but generally one main friend throughout my life, I can't handle more than one at a time.
I was a very compliant child, obediant, I was in my own world and I just moved along with what my parents told me to do. Not much has changed, I just do what others tell me to do, or I would do nothing.

I think that my nature and personality, along with being female, is why my AS could exist for so long without anyone noticing.

I didn't in infancy. I could not sit still and the horse obsession started by the age of three.

In first grade I showed many Autistic behaviors especially repetitive ones. I stopped smiling as much by then, was in my own world more.

There was nothing different until the age of 2, and nothing of real concern until the age of 4.

I didn't show autistic traits as a baby either. I didn't show any traits until I was about 3. I mean I cried a lot as a baby, but lots of babies cry a lot, my friend says that one of her daughters cried a lot.

Well I personally think its funny how people refer to "Autism" as a living breathing FACT.

Lets not forget that "Autism" is nothing more than a word to help discribe the behaviour of some individuals compared to others. It's not as if you're born with an "Autism" stamp labelled to your head. I think most people forget this. "Autism" like everything else, is simply an invented word with a definition attached.