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woodsman25
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21 Sep 2007, 4:30 pm

Heh, awsome posts guys, their is alot here, i wonder if some of it needs to be in a phych article.

BTW... I HATE TAGS!! I CUT THEM ALL OFFFF :twisted:


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21 Sep 2007, 7:29 pm

I actually feel sad when people tell me how I was before I began school. I was apparently social, outgoing and loving. I even had friends. The only indications then that I was somehow different was that I was picky eater and had unusual interests, even then. I was advanced academically in school, but very poor socially as time went on. I was also quite athletic as a child, but less so as time went on. Today, I am not at all athletic, although I stay physically active by walking.

I don't know if I really do have AS or social anxiety. I do have some indicators of AS (unusual interests, some sensitivity to sounds and smells, extreme shyness, although not aloofness), but not others.



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21 Sep 2007, 9:07 pm

I've always been really silent but more so now but i think i've always been the socially awkward kid of the group :roll:


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22 Sep 2007, 7:39 am

woodsman25 wrote:
Ok, not sure if their were prior posts concerning this, but I recently got back from a trip to my old neghborhood where I lived when I was little. Their were many ppl who even after 16 years recognized me, and told me some pretty bizzar stories about me, stuff i do not recollect. Apparently they said I was very talkative, active and friendly, at least when little. Im sure they noticed now as an adult im a bit more reserved, quiet. Then I saw this video of me when I was 4 in the summer of 1987, it was a back yard party at my parents house and indeed, I was extreamly active. I did not play with the other children tho oddly enough, I was all about socializing with the grownups. They must have thought I was weird cause during the movie I was the loudest one, and yet the smallest, and was running around wildly in all directons, whoever was running the camera kept aim at me while I was running around talking and singing into an invisible microphone, then I would come and make my rounds with the adults...

Anyone have a similar story?


Yes, I was more social as I was younger... I think the big shock comes when you hit highschool or university and people become very mean spirited.