Recently, my mom pointed out some cute baby and then mentioned that I was really cute when I was a baby and all that stuff that all mothers do once in a while. One thing that made me think a lot was what she told me. She mentioned that there were three activities I would often engage in. One was an obsession with spinning objects like coins and there was a thin turquoise bracelet that I would spin all the time(I even remember doing it!). I was actually able to spin this bracelet for a long time at just the age of 2 years old and my mom told me that people in restaurants that saw me doing it would always tell my parents that I was really good at spinning that bracelet. The second activity would be that I would play this game I called "freeway". I would basically line up rows upon rows of toy cars and I would start off moving each toy car forward a few inches or so, starting from the far left to the right right and then I would move onto the next row doing the same thing and my mom told me that I would be able to do this for hours. I also remember doing this. I also would often listen to the music on the radio and I would sit ready close to the stereo and rock my head to the music that I liked. People today tell me that I am a musical genius and maybe that has to due with the fact that I was introduced to and interested in music at a very young age. The obsession with music doesn't strike me as much a sign of having AS as much as the others. Are there any people on here that used to follow specific routines at such a young age? If so, what were that activities and do these seem like signs of having AS?
Another interesting thing was that when I was really young(about 3 yrs old), I collected those little people toys made by Fischer Price and I called them Howard People. My parents had no idea why I called them this for years until one day they found out the reason why. The reason was because my dad's best friend was named Howard and when we were staying there once, I noticed this decoration that Howard's daughter made in their house and sure enough, it was a decoration of little handmade people. Is this form of association when it comes to naming things at all related to AS behavior?
16 Oct 2011, 12:13 pm
