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Mdyar
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03 Nov 2010, 8:44 am

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Yes! I did that all the time, and now having two little boys I watch them do the same things. They will both take turns helping each other into a small cabinet and closing the door. They just stay in there at times, just like I did as a kid. I also would go into a small shelf in my closet and curl up there. I too had the habit of messing with the radio dial and listening to the frequencies.


Same.

I would step on the shelves using them as a stair step , and somehow would climb to the top shelf and turn around in there...... this closet was a linen closet and it was a narrow as can be, and the top shelf was at least 6ft above the floor. The door header clearance would almost prevent you from squeezing up into this shelve height.



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03 Nov 2010, 9:45 am

Yeah I am not sure either if that is an AS trait, my brother is as NT as you get and he used to do that stuff as a kid all of the time!

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03 Nov 2010, 5:08 pm

Oh, I used to love crawling into my wardrobe and hiding out there for a while.
I don't know if it's autistic or AS, but I'm AS, so...


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03 Nov 2010, 6:20 pm

I once had a fairly large plastic toybox, which was pink and white. My parents were puzzled by the fact that I would often pull out all of the toys and sit in the now empty toybox. To be honest, I don't know why I did it either.

I also liked to spend a lot of time in my basement. I still do, actually. Mostly, I just pace back and forth, talking to myself, but when I was younger, I had "adventures" down there. I would pretend that I was in the mountains, or in a cave, or underwater. Usually, I kept the light off, unless it was dark outside.


It actually never occurred to me to climb into cabinents...



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04 Nov 2010, 2:48 am

I don't remember much, but there are times when I have the urge to want to climb into a dark cupboard and hang out for a while or when Im searching for something under my bed, I find it tempting to just lie there for a while.
I have a friend whose young NT son likes to climb into the kitchen cupboards and hang out in them.


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