kraftiekortie wrote:
It wasn't acceptable, in my family, to be "eccentric" or "weird." My mother, especially, would seek to knock the "eccentricity" and "weirdness" out of me.
My first "word" was actually a phrase: "I see a ball."
I spoke the phrase in a therapy room at a summer camp which, I believe, was a site for autism research. The camp was called Harrelson. I have not been able to find it on the Internet. I was 5 1/2 years old. They had both autistic kids and normal kids in the research. My brother was one of the "normal kids" who were researched.
My parents were a member of NYABIC, which stands for "New York Association for Brain-Injured Children." You can find this organization on the Internet. It has a different name now, with the acronym ANIBIC, which stands for "Association for Neurologically Impaired/Brain-injured Children." I went to their nursery school, which was for autistic kids, and other supposedly "brain-injured" kids. I believe many of the "brain-injured" kids would probably be diagnosed with either ADHD, or an ASD, should they have been assessed in the 1990s and beyond.
Your parents sound exactly like mine. I grew up in a wealthy stuck up family where everyone had to be perfect. If I displayed any odd autistic behavior my parents would punish me which I think is why I played up alot in school. But it's probably why I can act normal for periods of time now and rarely have anyone suspect me of having AS
02 Feb 2018, 5:04 am
