Had first interview by adult autism team today

Hah! Interesting you should mention being picked for teams. I hadn't though about that until you mentioned it. This was always painful as I was always among the last to be wanted.  I wasn't friendless but I usually had one good friend at a time. Other kids I knew weren't friends, more acquaintances.

I remember thinking, when I was about 9, that they ought to give everyone a book of rules at school.  When I found out that there was a school rule book I sought it out and was frankly appalled when I read it. They ahd left almost everything out as far as I could see. There were obviously numerous rules for what to say if somebody says such and such a thing, whether you need to reply or not - all sorts of rules about social behaviours that I had clearly infringed without knowing until it was too late. But nodody ever explained why whatever I'd done wrong was wrong, it was as if I was somehow simply expected to already know.  It baffed me that everyone else did seem to already know. If I asked how I was supposed to know, but nobody even understand the question. I would be shouted at and punished for insolence.  I hated school with a passion, increasingly so from the age of about 10 until I left at 16.

I was always collecting things - stones, fossils, coins, matchboxes, anything foreign such as foreign sweet wrappers, *** packets, tobacco tins, toy cars and lorries (especially lorries), bottle tops, anything old and interesting. I knew the names of all the American cars and would say them as they drove by, when we lived in New York, so that would have been before I was 3. I soon learned all the British ones when we came here.

I still don't understand why she dismissed the school reports though. I'd have thought they give quite a picture of attention deficit if nothing else.

Hah! Interesting you should mention being picked for teams. I hadn't though about that until you mentioned it. This was always painful as I was always among the last to be wanted.  I wasn't friendless but I usually had one good friend at a time. Other kids I knew weren't friends, more acquaintances.

I remember thinking, when I was about 9, that they ought to give everyone a book of rules at school.  When I found out that there was a school rule book I sought it out and was frankly appalled when I read it. They ahd left almost everything out as far as I could see. There were obviously numerous rules for what to say if somebody says such and such a thing, whether you need to reply or not - all sorts of rules about social behaviours that I had clearly infringed without knowing until it was too late. But nodody ever explained why whatever I'd done wrong was wrong, it was as if I was somehow simply expected to already know.  It baffed me that everyone else did seem to already know. If I asked how I was supposed to know, but nobody even understand the question. I would be shouted at and punished for insolence.  I hated school with a passion, increasingly so from the age of about 10 until I left at 16.

I was always collecting things - stones, fossils, coins, matchboxes, anything foreign such as foreign sweet wrappers, *** packets, tobacco tins, toy cars and lorries (especially lorries), bottle tops, anything old and interesting. I knew the names of all the American cars and would say them as they drove by, when we lived in New York, so that would have been before I was 3. I soon learned all the British ones when we came here.

I still don't understand why she dismissed the school reports though. I'd have thought they give quite a picture of attention deficit if nothing else.