What as-symthoms you had as child?

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Around the age of 7 I started to become
noticeably withdrawn and inward looking,no longer able to interact naturally with other children.By the age of 11 I was almost mute,
totally confused as to why I felt different from
everyone else and devoid of ideas as to how
I could communicate my feelings.My anxiety
affected the way I walked,holding my arms
still by my side without swinging them.I had
interests that were solitary,like making up
pretend football scores from telephone
directories etc.

My speech stopped progressing at age one, then I got echolalic speech at around two or three. I didn't speak on my own until I was four. I had a very hard time with empathy as a child, not really understanding that hitting children when I was annoyed would make them dislike me. I had very few friends and really didn't care for any more. Strange facial expressions, especially my wide-eyed manic smile. My meltdowns and my inability to understand why I should listen to my parents and teachers made it very difficult to tolerate me. I lived in a dreamy world, it seemed, with very bright lights but I didn't really make up a huge amount of stuff as I do now. I was very hyperactive and had no fear, my parents always held onto me because they were afraid I'd run away or in front of a car. I stimmed; rocked, walked on tiptoe, spun around, etc. I was very unaware of things around me until I was about nine, when I realzied I was different and that I wanted at least a few friends.

Disliking different routes to places. Every thing had to be the same the way it was. I had to sit in the same spot, I had echolalia, (Could that be from my deafness), poor eye coordination and balance, clumsiness, inflexible to play, played with toys the same way every time, disliked wearing jeans, did patterns like put the same color in every row on my brother's toy, had to have my food in the same spot every time on my plate, had to be served my food in a certain order, had to take a certain step in each room, didn't understand other people well like why they are getting mad, didn't understand emotions like I think someone was mad at me when I see someone yelling at someone else, hated people touching my things and moving it, by myself at other people's houses like when my parents go see one of their friends or when my mother drop my brother's and I off at someone's house to watch us, instead of playing with other kids, I played by myself, sometimes with others if they joined in what I was doing or they invited me to play with them like play school.
I played with my friends fine at my house but at their house I couldn't fit in because it was all chit chat or they were doing what i didn't want to do so I be standing or sitting around.
Unable to follow unwritten rules like if I went to someone's house, I did not know what rules to follow so I be kicked out of their house and banned.

I also had a development delay till about age five according to my mother my shrink told me.
I also had a speech delay due to hearing loss.
Obsessions
Fixations on things so I get stuck on something and keep talking about it.
Literal.
Unable to understand jokes and sarcasm. (I didn't learn sarcasm till I was 12. The first sarcasm I did was "oh great" after hearing it from other kids when something bad would happen like more homework)
Learned to tie my shoes at age 6 (is that late)
Hated having my hair brushed (is that an ASD thing)
Hated having my hair washed, (ASD or fear of getting water in my ears, it also scared me to have water poured over my head)
Hated having my teeth brushed (ASD thing?)

-hey thanks for the answers very much! I''ll show that to my mother and father! Until then if somebody who is not sure if he has aspergers and kind of one day thinks he has other day not or with very mild case of it can you write what symthom you had as a child? Is there somebody who had very mils as-symthoms as a child? What kind of?

I think it's a possibility I have very mild case of it. BTW this topic reminded me of some stuff I had as a child I didn't remembered at all until now. Weird

Of course everybody is welcome here to write about as-symthom in chaildhood and in generall about childhood if somebody wants to. It will be a great help to me and my parents to think whether I have as

i remember speech delay, wanting to play with the same toys all the time, chucking tantrums if i did not get to play with them, no interest in other children ,something called parroting where i would copy people's words .

i was a very organised child, everything was organised by size and type of toy, apparently i talked and walked very late needed spech therpy and generally kept myself to myself, no friends as a wee one!