What were you like as a young child?
I was very quiet and preferred to play alone.
>>28486618
I don't really remember but I was big into Dinosaurs. Just a little bit more than average for a guy born in 1991.
>>28486618
As autistic as I am now. My mother visited her friends and I had to stay with their kids, it was as awakward as it is now. As far as I can remember, I've always been shut in and repelled by new / groups of people
And the therapist said I wasnt really autistic, what a bitch
>>28486618
I was angry and bitter.
I remember as a child my mothers sister said i was like a grumpy old man trapped in a little boys body and that i'd always be like that. I cried and told my mom what her sister had said to me, she laughed and agreed. They were right.
Hyper, bossy, hard to get along with.
I was overly confident because I was a cripple child.
Adults thought the best thing for my emotional development was to mollycoddle me and tell me how fucking amazing I was.
Then I grew up majorly disappointed because not only did people stop telling me I was amazing and awesome and brave, they began to look at me in disgust.
I never stood a chance really.
Apparently I was very behind when it came to my language skills. I found a report from when they were testing by giving me a picture book and then have me look through it. After looking through it they wanted me to recant the story. When they asked me what the story was I just looked at them. Didn't say a damn thing, just looked at them. I don't remember this at all but I do find it amusing. I can only imagine this in a kids mind
>You want to know the story bitch? Then why don't you read it?
I were really social and normal, the more shit life threw at me the more I preferred loneliness and anti-sociality, it reached the point that now I legit believe I developed autism as I grew up, I grew up in a fucked up country where your family gives you shit for smiling or having fun in general, and here I am, 18, I have some friends still after graduating, planning to go to uni even though I quit after one semester back in early 2016.
>>28486780
So much this
>be friendly
>people you considered friends laugh at you and treat you like shit
>one more nail in the coffin
>oh anon you were so cheerful as a kid why did you change?
>>28486891
I can't believe how relatable I am to this.
Loud, sharp for my age, played a lot of sports, loved dinosaurs and outer space
It went downhill during middle school
>>28486618
>depressed
>low self-esteem
>a one-trick pony (was very good at reading (even years before going to school) but sucked at everything else)
>preferred non-physical and mostly quiet activities that you can do alone (e.g. playing with toy cars or lego, drawing)
>didn't really like other children but wasn't a bully
>sometimes hyperactive but not often
>>28486655
>And the therapist said I wasnt really autistic, what a bitch
I was evaluated for autism (and probably more) as a child and whoever was in charge of the tests concluded that I wasn't autistic enough. My parents and everyone else who knew me well at the time disagreed but didn't take any action. I'm sure I would've turned out better if I had received proper diagnosis and help early enough.
>>28486780
>>28486891
>>28486922
>tfw therapy made you open up, but bullying, rejection, and realization that you were cringeworthy turned you into the quiet, reserved person that you are today
I bit other children, constantly ran off and hid, and also went through a period where I chased boys down and kissed them.
