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LolaGranola
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: When did you start to know you were different? |
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Why? How could you tell?
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Drakilor
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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When people starting reminding me that I'm purposefully nefarious.
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2ukenkerl
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I think when I was 5! I was not good with catch, found the hard easy, and some of the easy harder. Playing, and socially, I was just DIFFERENT. My school noticed when I was 6. |
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-JR
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Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Probably in kindergarten. We had a little "dance" thing, everyone was having a ball, it felt as if I couldn't step in, remember hanging out in the doorway. Foggy memory, but man it really hit me then.
I think, most of the time I was pretty oblivious. In 4th grade they switched my teacher on me, put me in a new class. Then I was given 2 other classes to go to. I'm not even sure what that was about. I mean, there was "special ed" and stuff, I'm not sure if I was in that tho! Crazy as it sounds, I just went with the flow. I know in math class I had a TON of freedom. Went to the library for that class, remember laying on the floor doing work. Remember asking about division, why the numbers were divided so evenly. Was funny, as the example I was given just did not make sense to me, cannot even remember how it worked out, but I can divide today! Must have worked out, lol.
Also, eating so slowly in first grade. It was policy that in order to leave the cafeteria, one would have to eat all their food. I simply couldn't do this! And I wouldn't leave either! I can't remember how I escaped that place! 
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lionesss
The Queen of not your typical kind of jungle
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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By the time I was 4. My speech was barely in at that time but my mother remembers me walking around, even back then saying "I am different".. so sad.
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I was told that I have PDD-NOS and ADHD- in other words, mild AS with a history of speech delay. I personally think its best to say that I am just plain under the spectrum! |
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DejaQ
Drill fork! It can drill and fork! ...Mostly fork.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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People just glared at me when I talked to them. 
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PowerGirl
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Location: Angelica Castle on the planet Sedna
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I think I've always known I was different for as long as I can remember. I never specifically thought there was really something about me, I just noticed I wasn't like everyone else. My mom noticed probably before I was able to notice (or remember it). I just saw myself like everyone else, just different. As I got older and more aware of myself and others (and after being diagnosed between fifth and sixth grade), I REALLY started to notice what was so different about me and even started to understand why people thought I was weird and avoided and/or made fun of me. Thing is, I'm still picked on, and I COULD act differently and more like an NT but I don't want to have to reprogram my whole self just to fit in. I have some really great friends who genuinely love the real Aspie me and love me the way I am. So changing myself wouldn't really be a good thing. Besides, why can't THEY change THEMSELVES to be more accepting to differences? Why must I be the one to change just to fit in the NT dominated world? Sorry for going on ranting. -Power Girl |
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chocoholic
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I think the first time was when I was about 6 or 7. I went to a playground with my mom, there were a bunch of other kids there with their parents. I tried to play along with all of them, and they seemed to want nothing to do with me. There was however, this one girl who went on the seesaw with me, and when she went to the bottom, she stayed down there and left me up just to get me upset. A little while later some of the kids and parents were talking to each other saying how I was different (not in a good way). Later I asked my mom why I was different from them, and she said that they just didn't "understand" me. Now I can see why they would think that, but at the time I was just very confused by it. |
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LolaGranola
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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For me, there is no specific event, at least none that I can remember at the moment. It's just that after EVERY summer camp, school, or after-school program I joined left me isolated and/or tormented, something's got to be up.
I may not even have an ASD, but no matter what I know that I'm most certainly not one of the norm.
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-JR
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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^^^I'm in the same boat there.
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lelia
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I cannot remember a moment I did not know. I knew because all the kids made sure I did not fit in. |
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pineapple
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| lelia wrote: | | I cannot remember a moment I did not know. I knew because all the kids made sure I did not fit in. |
Same with me.
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salamander
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:42 am Post subject: |
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My own father treated me like I was bad and wrong from the first I can remember. Actually felt pretty normal (same as home, that is) at school. Everybody hated me. Always have.
Knowing what I know now, it must be over some pretty mindless crap. Did I not look at you with "respect"? Did I not answer your question right? Did I use the wrong word?
Always different. Always bad. Always thought people ought to like me because I was trying to be really, really nice. They never did. |
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IdahoRose
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| pineapple wrote: | | lelia wrote: | | I cannot remember a moment I did not know. I knew because all the kids made sure I did not fit in. |
Same with me. |
And me. |
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IdahoRose
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| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| pineapple wrote: | | lelia wrote: | | I cannot remember a moment I did not know. I knew because all the kids made sure I did not fit in. |
Same with me. |
And me. |
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