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I voted "yes" but with one important caveat: only until I hit my tenth birthday. I had a great childhood although not without problems but once our family moved when I was 9 it went downhill.
I agree, though perhaps not for the same reasons since I can't say I was really bullied. My family moved to the other end of the country when I was 14 and so I was lifted out of a cosmopolitan, very multicultural community and transferred to something I couldn't relate to at all. I'm only just now considering AS, partly because I was so accustomed to being the quirky one that I never questioned it and partly because I've always blamed the move for my experiences of isolation and alienation upon reaching puberty (14 is an awful age for anyone to be displaced). In hindsight, there were already signs that I was growing apart from my few existing friends as they moved into fashion and make-up and left me high and dry.
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AQ: 32 (up to 37 when answering instinctively); EQ: 21 - 24; SQ: 31
Reading the Mind in the Eyes: 32
RAADS-R: 85
RDOS Aspie score: 115/200; NT score: 79/200