Things you didn't comprehend as a child because of autism?

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I didn't blame it for EVERYTHING, only a little for TWO things. HECK, I blame ALAN greenspan, and BILL clinton for the trouble we are in now! It only affected social and economic things directly, but indirectly affected EVERYTHING. Those guys, BOTH MALE, were IDIOTS! You could see a DEFINITE decline, WORLDWIDE, starting just before the 1999 crash. There has never, in all of recorded history of the various markets, been such a whiplash of so many things. It is amazing that some of the companies that started on the way up still exist. MOST women could have done FAR better, but I doubt ANYONE could have done much worse.

As for evil nannies? Some ARE evil! I simply said that if the family unit were stronger, that there would be more GOOD nannies, and most of the bad ones would have to look elsewhere to work. And HECK, I DID say women could be doctors, nurses, etc... I just think that with nearly 100% of all adults either working, or taking from the public dole, that families suffer and it strains the economy.

Oh well, some LOOK for the bad, and feminists are especially likely to overlook the good. It is amazing that some women seem to want to fly in war, and perhaps even handle garbage.

i thought that people were at war with gorillas.
i wondered for years why "gorilla warfare" should be so hard because humans have all the weapons.
i thought boycots were male baby beds. i could not see how a boy cot could not be lifted.
i never asked about it though.

i thought the human race was some speed race that was being contested by people i did not know of.


i thought that man kind was only referring to kind men.

i thought that mother nature was not nature, but only it's mother.

there are plethoras of misunderstandings i had as a child.

Yeah, that threw ME for a loop ALSO. It is spelled "Guerrilla warfare". Guerre is french for war, so I guess the english translation would be "little war warfare". Now THAT makes sense because, although the main goal is to fight a war, the real immediate goal is for every person to basically fight a LITTLE war on their front. So, for example, if you want to blow up a bridge, and the other side fights "Guerrilla warfare", various people along the way will do what they can to stop you, according to their ability. In a normal war, people act as a unit with teams and follow orders.

HEY, I heard "my sediments(It was supposed to be sentiments) exactly". "yours truly" seemed like a way of insulting the one it referred to. Oh well, I once knew a woman that had a car tag that said "Mucket". When I asked WHY she had such a car tag, she said it was because her neice pronounced her name ("Monica") that way!(over 23 years, and I still remember such a minor incident! ) I think this is COMMON for people.

Why I could not talk about my obession but everyone else could talk about theirs.

Why I had to play with other children or make friends

Why other kids were so mean to me.

Why I could not play with the animals at the zoo but the people who worked there could.

Why people hate snakes and reptiles so much

Why people hated insects and spiders

Why adults talked down to me

Why I was so smart but had so much trouble in school

Why people found themselves so much superior to animals and could do whatever they pleased to them.

Yes, this one really horrified me when I was little; I never got it.

When I was young, I knew that other little kids had feelings because I saw them crying all the time- (and I had a baby brother, so my mother always reminded me that I had to think of HIS feelings too).

But it came as a revelation to me one day when I discovered that adults had feelings too, and that it made them do things. I didn´t realize that adults could ever cry; I thought they were past the point of crying, and only kids cried. As I never saw adults crying, and I saw them always disciplining kids, I thought that that was their basic role in life. Since adults often tell kids to stop crying, or try to get them to control their emotions in some way, I assumed that adults were the "controlled" version; i.e., they didn´t have emotions anymore. If my mother ever yelled at me, I didn´t really think of HER emotion of anger, as separate...I thought she was only disciplining me. The first time I ever saw an adult cry, I was terrified, because I thought the world was falling apart!

I thought that same thing, too .

I never got "sealing wax". Why would anybody wax their ceiling?

And I just found out what it means to trim a Christmas tree. I thought all these years that people were getting thier Christmas trees home and literally trimming off excess growth to shape the tree exactly how they wanted. I've always just used "decorate".

I always thought guerilla warfare had something to do with gorillas, maybe people imitating gorillas. It was most often brought up in reference to Vietnam, Laos, Columbia, and such places, all of which have jungles. I thought maybe people were fighting in the trees, or using some sort of camouflage tactic adapted from gorillas. I thought it was called gorilla warfare because it was fought as hypothetical gorillas would fight it.

I didn't know Chinese food was a real thing until my junior year of high school. I grew up in a small town with no Chinese restaurants, and my mom home cooked all of our meals. I'd hear about Chinese food on TV, but only in the context of jokes. What a wonder to my eyes when I ventured off to boarding school and some of my comrades and I walked downtown for Chinese takeout! What is that? Does it taste good? Now I am totally hooked!

I also didn't know illegal drugs were real. And I have no intention of ever trying any.

Isn´t that what "trimming" a Christmas tree means- trimming down the growth? Are you really saying it means to decorate instead? If so, that´s odd....why use a different word for it?

Both. After all, you have trim on a car.

Its not uncommon to do a little shaping on a christmas tree. I usually lop the lowest branches to make it easier to water.

As a child, I found that clowns were a frightening species. That they took on the appearance of a parody of human form was the most ghoulish thing about them. I could not imagine where they lived when not being paraded or shown in circuses, or how they managed to survive in a human world.

That was up to about age 7, when I finally understood that it was people wearing makeup.

I think the clown noises and manic behaviour probably had some part in the illusion.

I took a few years to get over my fear. These days i'd have to say that some of my best friends are clowns.

Around the age of 3 and a half I learned to count to 100 and became extremely fascinated with large numbers. Yet because I was so young I didn't really understand the abstract idea of numbers yet. Most kids that age don't really have a clue about numbers greater than 12 or so.

When I first pondered the idea of very large numbers I asked my mom what the highest number anyone had ever counted to was. I thought there had to be a record and that all the numbers beyond the record were not known, i.e. "one million" wasn't known until someone somewhere had literally counted from one to one million. It didn't make sense to me that they could go on forever.

I also thought that people had discovered the names of numbers magically through counting, i.e. "one million" always existed but you figured out the name by counting to it. I didn't understand the difference between the actual abstract numbers and the symbols/names given to them by people. I thought the symbols/names existed completely independent of people.

My curiosity about the world was way ahead of my ability for abstract thought so I had all kinds of weird notions about things that most other kids that age would never even think to think about.

As a kid, I had no concept of teenagers. Despite having aunts and uncles ranging from 30 to only 6 years older than me(and half of them in their teens), in my world, there were kids and there were adults.

This and the post below it, apparently, are correct. But when people say "trim the tree" in reference to Christmas trees, they mean they're decorating it, as in "adding trim", in the same way as carpentry trimwork or automotive trimwork. I guess the ornaments are the "trim".

I didn't comprehend how to ride a bike.

I could not seem to manage the motor-coordination and balance involved in successfully operating a bicycle for more than a few feet. After a about a dozen times of falling off and injuring myself, I gave up for good, and haven't really ridden one since. Not only other kids, but even my own family ridiculed me for this. As you can imagine, this was yet another impairment to childhood socialization.

wow... I really forgot about all this until just now.