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26 Mar 2007, 8:01 pm

It was sometime during the second half of first grade for me. It was either that winter or spring. So as the title says, when did you learn to dress yourself?



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26 Mar 2007, 8:05 pm

before preschool


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26 Mar 2007, 8:13 pm

about three.



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26 Mar 2007, 8:24 pm

There is a difference between knowing how to dress ones self and knowing what to wear that will not get you beaten up at school.

I don't know when I learned to put on clothes, but up through 6th grade I was still putting my clothes on wrong...or wearing stuff that I got made fun of for....

My fashion sense started evolving around the time I reshed high school..when i became completely obsessed with vintage clothes...and hats....the older the better....but my normal clothes..started looking better...albiet they have always been eccentric.



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26 Mar 2007, 8:41 pm

Well, my mother knows it was before 3. I'm pretty sure it was before 2. Frankly, I wouldn't have stood for not doing it.

ALSO, I always dressed conservatively, and it seemed like everyone almost instinctively knew what was WRONG. It was unheard of for someone to break ranks in that way, and I was and am no different there.

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26 Mar 2007, 9:34 pm

It took me until i was 8-9 when i could truly dress myself.


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26 Mar 2007, 9:43 pm

Goodness why are lot of you aspies so late in doing things like tieing your shoes, dressing, brushing your teeth, etc? :?



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26 Mar 2007, 9:45 pm

I drank from a bottle till I was 7
There was a convenience factor involved.
And I am not even necc. an Aspie..I am an ADDer



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26 Mar 2007, 9:54 pm

I remember learning how to put pants and shirts on myself when I was about four.


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26 Mar 2007, 10:01 pm

Don't know.



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26 Mar 2007, 10:02 pm

When I was about 2 or 3 or so.



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26 Mar 2007, 10:07 pm

I still button my shirts wrong and put things on inside out.
Sometimes, I just don't care.



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26 Mar 2007, 10:18 pm

When I was 6, I think. But I learnt how to match clothes when I was 11



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26 Mar 2007, 10:27 pm

Nice avatar Saxen.



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26 Mar 2007, 10:55 pm

Santa_Claus wrote:
Nice avatar Saxen.

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Goodness why are lot of you aspies so late in doing things like tieing your shoes, dressing, brushing your teeth, etc? :?

Why do you think?


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26 Mar 2007, 11:47 pm

likedcalico wrote:
Goodness why are lot of you aspies so late in doing things like tieing your shoes, dressing, brushing your teeth, etc? :?


Gee, do you even know the norm? With some over$%^& parents, and some comorbids, who knows what some dealt with. Also, there are interests, etc... I HAVE forgotten to eat/sleep more than a few times because of interests.

BTW I don't know about YOU, but I have been determining when I learned this stuff by basically going back and trying to remember as far back as I could when I knew I did it myself, and sometimes tried to see if my mother knew I did it earlier, or could verify it. So it is really the latest I could have learned how to do it.

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