What is the first thing you ever did that was "autistic

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Hmmm that would be when I hacked a telecommunications company using basic algebraic formulas to crack pin numbers at 19 yo. It was done primarily for fun (obsession) on my end. Never used the cards nor the pins. My list grew to over 500 varieties of account numbers with matching pins.

I was finally "pinned" down by a US Marshall who saw that I was "different" and worked with the company to let me go. I was lucky, but several geeks lost their jobs over that. Was offered a job with them post-graduation of college.

Geez, I bet everyone here on this forum, just renewed or rechecked their Norton's Internet Security and Firewall settings! ROTF.....

Gee, you wouldn't know it to look at me a few months ago, I'm finally getting back at it, but I used to stay up VERY late, read books, and do puzzles. Yet somehow I was just never tired. Oh well, today I am getting back into doing puzzles, reading more(The fact that they finally got my vision back to 20/20 helps!), and I'm sleeping like 4 hours, and am not very tired.

And yeah, I wasn't the typical kid either.

Steve

I don't know which of my early memories are the earliest, per se. I know the first overt, observable signs of AS that I displayed were hyperlexia, a resistence to talking and avoidence/extreme adversion of strangers. I remember having bad auditory hypersenstivity when I was very young too, which was never noticed by adults and I was too young to tell them what I was experiencing. I recall it being quite painful at times. I was prone to tantrums and screaming fits too, and I had a problem with bedwetting.

I remember as well to being sensitive to the presence of other people and I really liked being alone in a room or in the backyard. I didn't stim that much, but I do recall twirling a lot.

I have a very vivid memory of writing out the names of the Canadian provinces from memory on my kiddie chalkboard over and over. I was fascinated by the names because I thought they looked neat, although I didn't really know what they stood for. I have no recollection of how I learned the names, but I was reading by then and probably was just recalling them by rote, hyperlexia-style. That was before I started pre-school, so I was about 4 probably.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT I'M 17.

The first laptop I saw was back in '90 when I was one year of age.

I had an '86 computer at my old school which I used to program on (there was little else you could do with it).

The '86 computer......... *Dreams* I WANT IT!

I think the first autistic thing I remember doing is getting upset because nobody (except my sister) could understand a word I said.

If my mother asked me a question, I would understand it perfectly, but she couldn't understand my answer.

Funnily, I don't remember learning to read, but I do remember sitting in class while everybody else learnt to read, feeling very, very bored. Indeed, at three or four years old, my speech therapist used written words to help me learn spoken words!

Oh god, and to think I've had to diagnose myself. If I could go back twenty years, I'd scream at my parents and doctors and therapists: 'Open your bloody eyes!'

Emma.

Corticogenesis. Albeit I don't remember that.

The first thing I can remember? Hmmm... probably obsessing about my earliest collections. Or finding weird places to sit/hide, like in the cabinets or in buckets or the dog cage...

-as a baby, wrapping me in a blanket the regular way wasn't acceptable. My mom says I was the happiest when that blanket was so tight I couldn't move

-talking to my toys and even myself a lot when I was young, but not talking to other people much

-I loved my playpen and was happy in there past age 2. I'd make a hill in it by sitting with my legs under the floorpad, and watch my toys slide down the hill over and over and over and over....

-when we went visiting at other people's houses (up to maybe age 6 or 7) I'd sit beside my parents while they hung out with the adults instead of playing with the other kids.

FUNNY! I guess that is the first sign for everyone!

It is too bad that seeing such things is SOO expensive, and difficult. I wish I saw my CT scan when I had one done.

Emma,

WOW! My mother said she understood EVERYTHING I said before 2. I heard a 4 year old speak once to her mother, and people laughed. I didn't. I mentioned I couldn't understand her, and the mother said "do you have kids?" I said NO, and she basically said THAT was the reason. So apparantly that isn't that uncommon.

Steve

! !! I had that too, and still do! I cannot stand most NT teenagers (more like KIDS)... They are so immature! Especially the boys who think they're amazing and know everything, when really they have the IQ of a piece of bread (no... a piece of WHITE bread).

WOW, a little sexism there, huh? I was the same way actually, but I don't think I seperated it based on sex.

Steve

Gosh - sexism NOT intended - I just meant that so many boys that I've met are show-offs. There seems to be a HUGE divide in behaviours and attitudes in girls and boys around my place.
Steel

Yeah at least us girls are ~cute~ when we're being snotty little brats

Gee fraya,

Girls don't even find us cute when we showoff, etc....? Some of the dumbest things males do are to try to attract females. All too often, males end up like praying mantises. 8-(

There is a nasty little ryhme often said:

What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice and all things nice,
That's what little girls are made of.

What are little boys made of?
Slugs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails,
That's what little boys are made of.

Gee, the boys don't even get the whole puppy?

Steve

Not really.. we do sometimes take pity on you poor guys or think you maybe deserve a little reward for trying so hard and being so entertaining (we're laughing ~with~ you.. honestly) though.

I have to tell you. I've always felt that the the relationship between male and female is much like the relationship between AS and NT. In fact, one of my biggest problems has been understanding NT females! I'm glad SOMEONE gets a laugh, but I really do feel like a prayingmantis.

For those that haven't figured it out, the male prayingmantis spends most of his life just being there going from day to day. One day, he finds a female. He approaches her, and eventually she has him for lunch LITERALLY!

Steve

I wouldn't sleep when i was a baby unless my mom wrapped me in the blanket really tight so i couldn't move. i'm still like that; need a weighted blanket and lots of cuddlies to keep me from flailing around.

The first things i remember, though, are rigit adherence to rules. I would freak out if my mom chatted with someone in the grocery line because i knew it was bad to talk to strangers. (not a good lesson for an aspie kid to hear- i think i still abide by it!) I would interrupt her and say, "Mom! I should have brought the Berenstein Bears Don't Talk to Strangers Book! You're not listening!"

I also knew from television that you shouldn't drink and drive, and i would tell my mom this when she drank coffee in the car. She'd say, "its just coffee Katie" but at 3 and 4 i didn't know the difference between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. i just knew what the TV had told me.

Another example of verbal rigidity at about 3:
I was trying to dress the one barbie-type doll I had (I generally hated barbies). I was sitting in front of my open closet doors in my room and mom was putting away my clothes. I was trying to figure out what she should wear for the type of weather, and I thought it should be hot clothes for hot weather, and cold clothes for cold weather. Mom tryied to explain it was the opposite but I didn’t understand because I meant “hot weather clothes” when I said hot clothes, and vice versa.

when i was 4, my friend slept over. she fell asleep before me and I wondered what people’s eyes did when they were sleeping, so I pulled open her eyelid, and it was all white underneath. i was very proud to find that out. Dunno if this is aspie or typical kid stuff, but it seems pretty wierd to me.