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20 Apr 2014, 11:06 pm

Not until i was 10.Aspie motor skills........ :roll:



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20 Apr 2014, 11:12 pm

I believe I was 7 or 8



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20 Apr 2014, 11:41 pm

When I was around 6. About to turn 53, still riding - commute to work on bike every day.



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20 Apr 2014, 11:50 pm

Six.


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21 Apr 2014, 12:29 am

Somewhere in the 10 to 12 age range.



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21 Apr 2014, 1:23 am

8.



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21 Apr 2014, 1:39 am

11 and I'm still not very good at it.



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21 Apr 2014, 1:40 am

3 or 4



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21 Apr 2014, 2:38 am

I got the training wheels taken off at 7 1/2.



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21 Apr 2014, 2:41 am

Without stabilisers at about 4.



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21 Apr 2014, 4:19 am

14 or 15



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21 Apr 2014, 6:10 am

Maybe about 9, not too sure.


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21 Apr 2014, 6:14 am

I don't know for sure but most likely around 5.


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21 Apr 2014, 6:56 am

I rode with training wheels when I was 5. I rode without them at......... I think about 8. I learned how to swim late though.


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21 Apr 2014, 8:01 am

I think I got the training wheels taken off when I was 4/5 years old. It had to have been before my parents separated; I remember my dad taking them off at our old house. That may not have been the best idea on my parents' part considering all the times I fell (one time even rode into a mailbox), but I was adamant that once they were off, they stayed off.


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21 Apr 2014, 4:55 pm

I've meant to ask the forum about this myself. I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was 7 (got my first bike of my own for my 8th birthday). I didn't learn to swim until even later. I wasn't able to learn to march when in training for the National Guard. I flunked driver's ed in school the first time around and barely passed the second time around. I can't dance worth a darn. It wasn't until after I got my diagnosis that I realized that it could all be attributed to a deficiency of fine motor schools that went along with being on the spectrum. An awful lot of embarrassing things one goes through start to make a lot of sense in light of an ASD diagnosis.

More interestingly, I have one aunt on my mother's side who never learned to ride a bike or drive a car. She had other mental issues that wouldn't be inconsistent with perhaps being on the spectrum. Another aunt on my father's side didn't learn to drive until her husband was disabled and she had to learn. She still can't (or won't) fill her own gas tank. Siumilarly she also has mental issues that might suggest ASD. Do you think I am on the right track?