did you have any repetitive behaviours as a child?

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for me i would stack the spices in my spice drawers and take all my clothes out of my closet and it them all in front of my door at night EVERY night. I would also imitate my dad and repeat every sentence i said. what did you do?

yes.

Alot, I doubt I could list them all here.

yes i did/yes i do

Yes ... hence the diagnosis.

twirled bits of my hair until I had knots
twisted my fingers
headstands

I had a small but active stim (which I still do), and I used to play the same record (old vinyl!) over and over. My dad had this odd eye rolling thing which I ended up doing too. Can't remember anything else.

Yes:
twirling a string in front of my eyes.
walking in circles and talking to myself.
occasionally humming and arm flapping.
putting my collection of stuffed monkeys in a circle and then sitting in the middle of the circle.
probably others.
edit: reciting stories verbatim and lines from stories my mummy read to me

I still twirl my fingers in front of my eyes -sometimes with a string or the end of a piece of paper twisted so it can dangle. I pick my skin.

Yep, and I still have repetitive behaviours

yes as a child I used to take all my toys out of the toy box and sit in the box myself there's even an old slide of me sitting in the box with all the toys on the floor.

Tons.

I would recite lines verbatim from movies and TV shows I watched, listened to certain songs over and over and brought up certain themes over and over again in my art projects and schoolwork (usually certain logos, advertisements, characters or sayings that I heard from my favorite movies and tv shows). I also loved toys that you could organize or sort into different categories and would sort them over and over again.

Yes.

Let's see... We have pictures of my drawing trees, repetitively, over all of the surfaces I could get at, when I was about three.

I used to read favorite books over and over.

Of course there were the stims. My mom says I ran in little circles for ages before I could settle down to sleep. I tended to bounce and fidget a lot, too.

I'm sure there were others. Doing something just once wasn't really my style. Still isn't.

Absolutely. I drew the same kind of pictures over and over. I had some imaginative play but the same ones were repeated over and over. I'd play my favorite cassettes over and over, read my favorite books over and over, line up plush animals, cards and toy cars over and over, making the wheels of the cars spin, having the same bedtime story told ever night (The 3 little pigs), playing my favorite videos over and over as I grew a little older (and kept doing that throughout my teen years, to lesser extent later). Wanting to wear the same few clothes (still do, although now I have more of the same type of clothes). Playing some songs over and over is something I have never outgrown.

Dozens.

Now that you asked, I remembered something that I haven't thought about for years. Namely, at the age of 7-8 or something I used to say everything twice, first with normal speaking voice, then whispering the same. Finally I grew out of it, but I was told it was annoying to hear.

I used to collect things, and organise everything I collected on my floor. At night, I'd line up my stuffed toys in a certain way. I had toy cars, and I'd organise into different groups based on their make and whatnot. My parents would come and put them back, and I'd put them in the same position. I'd line things I had multiples of in size order, or into groups based on their size. A lot of things, actually, now I think of it. And the weird thing is I still do, without knowing it. I discovered I like stacking things like post-its and soaps. I also brought a lot of nature into my house, which, believe me, annoyed my dad.

Lots! The earliest repetitive behaviours that I remember are

- pushing cardboxes in front of me

We have list of pictures of me on which I am a few months old and holding onto a cardbox.
I adored my cardboxes and mom said that I was the happiest baby when I was left to push around a box, never growing tired of doing it until I lit ally fell asleep from exhaustion.

- manipulating a huge baby toy that emitted all kinds of noises

I got it on my first Christmas Eve. When I was around 3, it suddenly "disappeared" because my parents or the new neighbours were bothered if I played with it during the night.

- lining up marbles and other things

If left to line up to my heart's content, I created large rows from one side of the room to the other with marbles, stones, Lego, crayons and objects that I found around the house (including trash). My favourite nighttime activity for years!

Well, other than kicking marbles against the wall to create that clanking noise that I loved, too.

- lining up my stuffed toys in bed

After climbing into my bed in the evening and before getting out in the morning, I lined them up around my bed.

- drawing stairs

I don't remember this being an intense interest or anything (in my memory, I simply liked stairs in my early childhood) but when I went through my early childhood drawings while searching for drawings of people, there were lots covered with stairs.