did u think u were normal when younger

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I recall being about the same age, and deciding to call my grandma "Grandmother" instead of "Nanny" (all the grandkids' name for her) because I thought I was too grown up to use the babyfied "Nanny".

I didn't feel disabled but I knew I was different. It was like I took nothing for granted. I remember being in a pre school class where the teacher was playing 'Rain Rain Go Away' on guitar and had the class singing it because it was raining outside. I just sat there glumly thinking they were all idiots for wishing away the rain because I liked it. I also remember hoping that if I was ever badly injured I would see circuitry because I hoped I was a robot like Astro Boy. Some other people talk about having the alien feeling from their ASD (hence the term 'Wrong Planet'). It took me a long time to come around to studying anthropology but looking back I always was one even as a little kid struggling to understand the rituals and norms all around me so that people made sense.

I thought I was, until my father said I wasn't. Until then, I just thought I was normal...but after that, I realised I really wasn't.

People kept telling me that I was super smart. I thought that explained everything for a long time, but I can't say when I made the jump from "really smart" to "not normal." I guess it happened when I finally met other really smart people who seemed normal in ways that I didn't, but even then I could pin that on having grown up in wretched rural backwaters with all the persecution for exceptionalism that one would expect from such places.