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Memories of "Spinning in circles" as a child

I'm done with Christmas Cards

I've come across the question "Do/did you like to spin in circles?" many times over the past year or so, and I've always answered "no", but always in the knowledge that I remembered doing it as a child; it's just that I seemed to remember it as something that everyone did. OK, not everyone, but enough people to make it not stand out as odd. I seem to remember it happening in the school playground as "just another thing that us kids did" like play British Bulldog or football or chase round for no discernible reason.

What's your memory of it like?

Maybe the other kids I saw doing it have their own adult autistic diagnosis now! Or maybe it was "something we all did." Or maybe, I have false memories and was the only one doing it!

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  • This particular behaviour is related to something called 'proprioception', people who are diagnosed with Dyspraxia also do it. It is not whether you have done it as a child, but at what frequency, most ASD symptoms are atypical because they occur repetatively.

    For instance, as a child every day, usually between TV breaks, several times a day I would spin around in circles (and flap my arms) and could entertain myself that way for >40 minutes, and would regularly do it to pass the time when bored. The key difference between atypical and neurotypic spinning, is that the atypical child will seem like they are in their own world, and transfixed on the behaviour.

    My sibling would also engage in this but only for a while, whereas I continued longer than normal.

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  • This particular behaviour is related to something called 'proprioception', people who are diagnosed with Dyspraxia also do it. It is not whether you have done it as a child, but at what frequency, most ASD symptoms are atypical because they occur repetatively.

    For instance, as a child every day, usually between TV breaks, several times a day I would spin around in circles (and flap my arms) and could entertain myself that way for >40 minutes, and would regularly do it to pass the time when bored. The key difference between atypical and neurotypic spinning, is that the atypical child will seem like they are in their own world, and transfixed on the behaviour.

    My sibling would also engage in this but only for a while, whereas I continued longer than normal.

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