What were you like as a child?

As a child, I was deemed by others in accordance with traditional Catholic Social Teaching at the time and because of my parents own mental health issues to be attracting and inviting bullying behaviour by others, in accordance with Irish cultural and social norms, to have no “cop on”for which it was decided that I needed to be silenced by being placed in a child residential psychiatric facility for 9 months, for which it was also decided that I needed to be held back a year in primary school as a problem child - it was also decided that I was not permitted to do group cert and inter cert exams and that from then on, my career path had to be decided by others for me without any input from myself permitted, any objections resulting in my being forcefully told to be quiet and stay quiet as if I was in a court of law, as it was deemed disrespectful for me to object because it was deemed that I was not capable of deciding my own future as I was deemed to be coming from a state of mental health confusion and of “not being right in the head” and of being wrong by default on all issues regardless - my autism diagnosis many years later was seen as a way of silencing my over-vocal nature in the infinite wisdom of everyone else and of making me grow up and take responsibility for my immature and dysfunctional nature as deemed by others - such people today still believe and maintain that I should not be living alone and above all, still need ultra strict discipline by a live in carer as the only way to manage my autism 

As a child, I was deemed by others in accordance with traditional Catholic Social Teaching at the time and because of my parents own mental health issues to be attracting and inviting bullying behaviour by others, in accordance with Irish cultural and social norms, to have no “cop on”for which it was decided that I needed to be silenced by being placed in a child residential psychiatric facility for 9 months, for which it was also decided that I needed to be held back a year in primary school as a problem child - it was also decided that I was not permitted to do group cert and inter cert exams and that from then on, my career path had to be decided by others for me without any input from myself permitted, any objections resulting in my being forcefully told to be quiet and stay quiet as if I was in a court of law, as it was deemed disrespectful for me to object because it was deemed that I was not capable of deciding my own future as I was deemed to be coming from a state of mental health confusion and of “not being right in the head” and of being wrong by default on all issues regardless - my autism diagnosis many years later was seen as a way of silencing my over-vocal nature in the infinite wisdom of everyone else and of making me grow up and take responsibility for my immature and dysfunctional nature as deemed by others - such people today still believe and maintain that I should not be living alone and above all, still need ultra strict discipline by a live in carer as the only way to manage my autism