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What were you like as a child?

Pigtail

I'm curious to know what you were like as a child and whether a lot of us were similar in the way we acted. I know a lot of py were diagnosed a lot later, my diagnosis was early on but I'm still curious to know what you were like.

As a child I used to hate hugs and being touched. I used to scream and scream if my parents hugged me and I hated having to hold their hands when out walking.

I bit everything and everyone. I used to bite my parents, other people, myself, chair and table legs and my toys. I was eventually given soft chew toys to bite to protect my teeth.

I was sensitive to the sun and bright lights. If I went out and it was sunny I used to close my eyes and cover them with my hands. I also didn't like the flashing lights on Christmas trees and would do the same thing if I saw them.

I used to organise and stack my toys as neatly as I could. My mum said my room was the most organised and tidy room in the house.

I didn't make eye contact and I avoided other children if I could.

And that's what I was like as a child apparently. I was diagnosed at 4 yrs of age.

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  • i dunno, id say i was probably more behaved than other kids, i just got told off more for no reason lol

    other peoples parents let them run riot, my parents were very strict and controlled and i wasnt even allowed out. they didnt allow me a playstation at first until around highschool they finally allowed it. imagine the phase where your never allowed out and have to stay in but your not allowed a games console lol this is probably why today i can be happy doing nothing but staring at a wall all day and why id be ok in solitary prison lol

    at school i never could socialise or get friends on my own but i did get a friend circle somehow by latching onto one guy who then made friends with some others which in turn became my friends, until ofcourse bit by bit the group split until the end of school there was only me and this one other. i was weirder back in school, always making noises, and yet despite the obvious strangeness no one ever diagnosed or refered me to any diagnosis for anything, thats just how *** they were at seeing anything even just in the recent past, now they diagnose so easily that if your not talking as soon as your born they claim your autistic now. id still have been making noises i guess if i didnt shut myself in my room for 10 years after school, i think the isolation stopped it and gave me that time to break it. ofcourse it still is around from time to time when i either get stressed or think too much, now mainly just a cat noise and swear words, one of them words very problematic and could get me jailed these days aha but yeah, school was aweful, and it brought out the most mentally ill of me for all to see and yet people still didnt see or didnt care. aside from bullies they saw for sure. maybe bullies need to become the mental health referrers seeing as they spot things better than teachers do.

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  • i dunno, id say i was probably more behaved than other kids, i just got told off more for no reason lol

    other peoples parents let them run riot, my parents were very strict and controlled and i wasnt even allowed out. they didnt allow me a playstation at first until around highschool they finally allowed it. imagine the phase where your never allowed out and have to stay in but your not allowed a games console lol this is probably why today i can be happy doing nothing but staring at a wall all day and why id be ok in solitary prison lol

    at school i never could socialise or get friends on my own but i did get a friend circle somehow by latching onto one guy who then made friends with some others which in turn became my friends, until ofcourse bit by bit the group split until the end of school there was only me and this one other. i was weirder back in school, always making noises, and yet despite the obvious strangeness no one ever diagnosed or refered me to any diagnosis for anything, thats just how *** they were at seeing anything even just in the recent past, now they diagnose so easily that if your not talking as soon as your born they claim your autistic now. id still have been making noises i guess if i didnt shut myself in my room for 10 years after school, i think the isolation stopped it and gave me that time to break it. ofcourse it still is around from time to time when i either get stressed or think too much, now mainly just a cat noise and swear words, one of them words very problematic and could get me jailed these days aha but yeah, school was aweful, and it brought out the most mentally ill of me for all to see and yet people still didnt see or didnt care. aside from bullies they saw for sure. maybe bullies need to become the mental health referrers seeing as they spot things better than teachers do.

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