Signs of autism in your childhood

I was OK with most foods, obviously there are some you just don't like, like, bananas and  sardines in tomato sauce, but I was also of the generation that ate what was put in front of us. My Dad once said that I must really like sprouts and was astonished when I said I didn't and only ate them first so as I had the rest of my dinner to take the taste away.

I was very isolated as a child and only ever played with 1 other child before I started school. I hated school, it was so loud and I was totally overwhelmed, it took me ages to make any friends. Later on, when I was about 9-10 I overheard that I was known as 'the weird girl', I think some of that was because my home life was so different to that of my "friends", not always in a bad way, but not living in a council house, not having a car, or going on holiday, watching BBC rather than ITV.

I was always suseptable to getting over exicited, at times watching Scooby Doo would leave me unable to sit still. I also got overwhelming feeling of dread and discomfort at knowing how something would end and still having to watch, listen or read it, like a slow motion car crash, I still get that. I got increasingly nervous too, again that could have other reasons. 

I used to do repeat a lot of things, stuff like sewing, I would do the same patterns over and over and would get really upset if somebody changed or interfeared with it, I had things that had to be done in a certan way.

I'm certain that I've always been this way, not helped by my strange upbringing, but so many things could have been different, I was never encouraged to do anything, any time I expressed an interest in something , I was put off of it and the gods forbid I ever made an exhibition of myself!

I was OK with most foods, obviously there are some you just don't like, like, bananas and  sardines in tomato sauce, but I was also of the generation that ate what was put in front of us. My Dad once said that I must really like sprouts and was astonished when I said I didn't and only ate them first so as I had the rest of my dinner to take the taste away.

I was very isolated as a child and only ever played with 1 other child before I started school. I hated school, it was so loud and I was totally overwhelmed, it took me ages to make any friends. Later on, when I was about 9-10 I overheard that I was known as 'the weird girl', I think some of that was because my home life was so different to that of my "friends", not always in a bad way, but not living in a council house, not having a car, or going on holiday, watching BBC rather than ITV.

I was always suseptable to getting over exicited, at times watching Scooby Doo would leave me unable to sit still. I also got overwhelming feeling of dread and discomfort at knowing how something would end and still having to watch, listen or read it, like a slow motion car crash, I still get that. I got increasingly nervous too, again that could have other reasons. 

I used to do repeat a lot of things, stuff like sewing, I would do the same patterns over and over and would get really upset if somebody changed or interfeared with it, I had things that had to be done in a certan way.

I'm certain that I've always been this way, not helped by my strange upbringing, but so many things could have been different, I was never encouraged to do anything, any time I expressed an interest in something , I was put off of it and the gods forbid I ever made an exhibition of myself!

TheCatWoman said:

I said I didn't and only ate them first so as I had the rest of my dinner to take the taste away

So much me with potato purée! Whenever I visited my auntie she always prepared that and was happy that I always ate it first but I didn’t dare tell her that I hate it. I only liked it when I was pregnant.