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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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  • When I "spin" it's either clapping/slapping myself (when happy) or 'fiddling' with a pencil (when solving a problem). I do remember getting up and zooming around but social sanction has stopped me from doing it, now I just throw myself at walls. Indeed social sanction has changed some of my harmless, if socially looked down upon spinning/vocalisations into self-injurious stuff which is silent and easily-hidden and therefore does not attract attention from violent/hostile others. Psy-professionals, police, flatmates, classmates and school authorities all fall into the hostile category so of course I cannot seek help from the same guys who went rabidly mad at me for such non-issues as harmlessly slapping my chest when feeling happy or who called me an animal (they meant it literally) simply for saying "ar!"

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  • When I "spin" it's either clapping/slapping myself (when happy) or 'fiddling' with a pencil (when solving a problem). I do remember getting up and zooming around but social sanction has stopped me from doing it, now I just throw myself at walls. Indeed social sanction has changed some of my harmless, if socially looked down upon spinning/vocalisations into self-injurious stuff which is silent and easily-hidden and therefore does not attract attention from violent/hostile others. Psy-professionals, police, flatmates, classmates and school authorities all fall into the hostile category so of course I cannot seek help from the same guys who went rabidly mad at me for such non-issues as harmlessly slapping my chest when feeling happy or who called me an animal (they meant it literally) simply for saying "ar!"

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