Evidence of early Aspergers from your baby books

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My mom lent me my "baby book" which she compiled when I was young.

She records that I would not eat a cookie or sandwich unless the cookie was perfectly round and the sandwich perfectly square. I would hold my hands over my ears a lot. When I was scolded I would start to cry and my mom would ask, "Do you understand?" And I would reply, "Understand?" I was in my own world all the time. I did smile and loved to be hugged, but other times I seemed morose and distant. When I first went to nursery school the children were marching around the room and I cried and ran out of the classroom. I also used to like repeatedly opening and closing doors. I would play with my toy truck for hours in the living room going around in circles. I also liked rocking my body back and forth in my crib.

There's a picture I have where my toys are lined up based on size/other attributes.

My mother said I did it as a child. She thought it was smart, as I'd always do it based on some logical pattern.

my mom has said that I lined up/sorted everything, and that i hated being held as a baby.

theres actually a sentence in my baby book that says "Your unique qualities: Like building towers and playing alone"

it also says i like to scream very loudly all the time and would cry and hold my ears when i heard an airplane. it says i never slept a full night which is still true.

And it may not be in my baby book but in a video of me at two, you can see me taking all the clothes i have and pilling them up in my door way, this would happen every night, in the same video i am always alone and barely smile, and obsessively make towers and stack objects and line things up.

I would also wear the same cat suit all the time

My mom told me I used to stim with my fingers.

I don't have a whole lot of photos from when I was a young child (and my mom didn't keep a baby book on me), but I seem to be off in my own world in a lot of them. I would also put up a fight when someone dared to pry me away from my Lego set, even though it would be like 11pm.