#asdmemory

[asdmemory]

Submission

As a young child I had terrible Sensory Hell if my socks weren't on Just Right, and this caused me a lot of distress in the morning. One day when it was bad, the bus monitor asked me why I was crying. I told her "My socks hate me" or something similar, and instead of telling me that was stupid, she took it seriously and gave my socks a stern "Socks! Be nice to Julia!" and swatted my feet. It actually helped very much. c:

[rivetingreticence]

Toto Songs

So, my dad is a huge fan of Toto.

I grew up in Germany, English wasn't my first language. When I was a kid (about 7ish), I didn't yet know a lot of English, but I had fun learning it (one of my SpIns was "idioms").

So, when my dad listened to Toto songs, I'd try my best to make out what they were singing about, so I could talk about it with my dad and have something to connect us.

In "Africa", I thought they were singing "I guess it rains down in Africa" - as in, "I guess even Africa has rain, although we all thing it doesn't, so life can't be all that bad."

In "Rosanna", I thought they were singing "meet you all the way" - as in "no compromises! I won't just meet you halfway!"

I kind of still prefer my childhood interpretations to the real songs sometimes.

[flowersforfawns]

when i was two and a half i wrote a song called The Butter Song and the only word was butter, and i just realized that was baby Hannah stimming and i can’t explain how happy that makes me feel?? i have videos of two year old me happy stimming?? i want to cry??

[strangerdarkerbetter]

I just remembered that as a kid I would visual stim by watching the windows pipe screensaver for long periods of time. I would just stare at all the moving pipes. It was so good.

[autisticpup]

When I was younger, I played with playmobil toys a lot. My favorite part was setting everything up just so, which took a while, so one day I timed myself and found that I could happily spend 58 minutes just setting up my toys. 

I was happy to play by myself because I got so focused and if I played with others they wouldn’t know how to set things up ‘correctly’, which frustrated me. 😅

[undiagnosedautismfeels]

Hi, me and some friends would like to invite everyone to share autistic childhood memories using #ASDmemory :) stuff like behaviours they enjoyed or special interests, things they remember that make them smile and maybe love and accept themselves. (kitten)

[anxiousautie]

When I was little I remember I used to fill up the bathtub as high as I could with burning hot water and sit in it until all the heat was out of it. And I had this little bag full of just little plastic toys and I would just sit in the burning hot bath and line these little toys up along the sides and they all had specific places they were supposed to go that I called their “houses”. But then I didn’t actually play with them, I just put them in their houses and rearranged them as I saw fit (usually one would go over to another one’s house but they would just sit there). And ya this happened like 3 times a week lol

[tragedy-plus-time]

As a kid I would love to just lay in the grass and roll around. And whenever I got excited I would bounce and jump and it would be fun