Simple! Tell us what you were like as a kid, and if you still are a kid, tell us what you are like now!
#1
According to a lot of people I’m the same person as I was as a kid except I used to be irrational and I was more emotional then
5points
#2
I used to daydream a LOT. So much that my parents were worried sometimes. I liked dragons and Care Bears and horses. I used to tell my little sisters stories that I made up for hours.
I was a pale, skinny little kid because I was sick a lot and it took years for my parents to figure out why. I cried a lot, but I also used to bounce when I was happy.😂
I was a pale, skinny little kid because I was sick a lot and it took years for my parents to figure out why. I cried a lot, but I also used to bounce when I was happy.😂
Little me was so innocent.
4points
#3
Bookworm then, bookworm now
3points
#4
I was a quiet kid, except when I was very quiet, except when I was with my friends! I loved reading and read chapter books by the time I was in grade 1 (second year of school), which became a problem when I changed schools, because apparently only grade 3s were allowed to read chapter books (my mum fought them on this). I didn't have many friends when I changed schools, and spent most of my lunch and recesses in the sandpit with my brother and next-door neighbour, or walking with the teacher on yard duty. Outside of school, I was a 'tomboy', loved climbing trees and spent most of my time with my brother and neighbour in the parkland next door, climbing, lighting camp fires and exploring. I always loved art and still do. I learned a lot about it from my grandmother, but since leaving school haven't spent as much time on it so haven't improved as much as I would have liked. I grew apart from my brother as a teen, but now he is one of my best friends. I wanted to be an artist, writer, or teacher when I was a kid and when I 'grew up' I got my bachelor's degree in education and have worked as a primary and preschool teacher and now work in after school care, so I guess I achieved my dream. My social anxiety let me down a lot as a kid and when mum forced me to pick an after school activity in the hopes it would help, I would do it for a term or two before quitting because I hadn't made any friends. Unfortunately, except in high school, this issue has just gotten worse, though I have three friends I made in highschool/uni I still keep in contact with regularly.
1point
#5
Lonely, isolated, messed up....
All the fun of growing up on the autism spectrum in an age when there wasn't an autism spectrum....
All the fun of growing up on the autism spectrum in an age when there wasn't an autism spectrum....
0points