Things You Were Delayed With

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My verbal and reading scores were well ahead of my chronological age as well.

I wasn't allowed to try and make friends until my freshman year of high school.

Other than that being a disaster, nothing.

I was delayed with speaking, not speaking until the age of three. However, I could read fluently by that age.

Making friends, and keeping them.

Hand writing (didn't have the proper form until third grade).

Telling the time on a clock.

Counting by 25's and 15's.

Tieing shoes (learned in grade 2).

Dancing (still cannot learn basic dances).

Haha same. When I was younger, my parents put me in a dance class in hopes of improving my coordination. After a few classes, I requested to quit because I could not do the stuff the other kids were doing (and as a result, I was bored). I also accidentally hit a teacher in the eye in an attempt to do something.

Walking - 18 months
Talking - 4 years
Toilet training - 3 years
Reading - 7 years. Most kids learn at 5.

Don't remember if I said this in a earlier post or not. But it takes me longer than a lot of people to understand a joke. Example of a joke I didn't get til later. My teacher said that the best way to lose weight is to put super glue on your lips. I didn't get it right away. While the rest of my class got it right away.

As a child I think I didn't consider myself a separate entity from other people for a long time, like we were all one big hive mind, as a result of having this really, tangible sensation around familiar things that I presumed everyone had. I believe I might have had a delayed sense of identity as a result, if that is an actual thing, basically nothing that defined a border between me and the next person. I never had any noticeable language/physical delays as far as my parents can recall. Think I was just a strange child, mentally. Around the time of having this energy/smell/taste sensation, I also became very preoccupied with mind-reading and similar things, which in hindsight probably reinforced my own belief in this universal sensation because it spoke, again, of some hidden inter-connectivity between everyone, which is ironic in hindsight.

I didn't really start talking to people outside of a select group until I was about 11 or 12.
I never learned to bike and I forgot how to swim.
Never could play any sport.
I forgot how to tie my shoes when I was about 13 but eventually retaught myself. I still never untie them.
I have difficulty doing a lot of tasks that most people find easy such as washing clothes or making food.
I was never particularly good with eye contact, I still don't blink quite as much as I should so either I'm not looking at all or I'm staring.

However, I was always way above others my age with reading comprehension.

Got my driver's license at 19, and didn't lose my virginity until I was 18

I also couldn't whistle until I was like 21