I love these specific stories! So much more helpful than generalized clinical descriptions of traits. I love hearing other people's "how autistic of me" memories!
I also was skeptical of Santa Claus. I found the hiding spot for the Santa gifts after some snooping. I carefully unwrapped them to see what they were and wrapped them back up again. I was incredibly skilled, my mother had no clue until I started dropping hints to her that "If Santa thinks I want a doll, he's mistaken!"
I figured out that there was no Santa when I was 3. My family went to visit my grandparents in another state. They had wrapped all the presents in yellow paper and I knew all of the various wrapping paper that my family had used. Since I saw no new paper under the tree x-mas morning I figured out there was no Santa. I told my 1 year old sister. For years she reminded me I spoiled Santa for her. I also told my 12 year old friend there was no Santa. I thought she would have known already. Apparently not. Oops.
I did at least half of this stuff myself, but I especially sympathize with number 6. It is *NO* fun to have to surrender your personal space, even just temporarily.
“My meow was on point” 😹 hahahaha. Love this video, I relate so much. I really want to make videos soon! I also just got diagnosed at 31. I saw Dr. Lauren Megrew just like you did, thanks to your previous video! She was great, I’m so thankful that you shared her info.
I also had multiple "my parents thought I was missing but I was just hiding behind a pillar to get away from overwhelm" incidents in my childhood. It pretty much stopped once I got my own room and I could hide from the world in there instead of in the shed in the backyard 😁
The one where you said you used to act like a cat really got me lol. I used to do the same thing, literally to the point where I started telling people I was part cat 🤣. And I mean cats have been a special interest of mine my whole life so it makes sense.
Same with the Christmas thing!! I never believed in Santa and could not understand why other kids did, and thought he was so creepy. It would be great to hear your thoughts on Christmas. I don't like any holidays. It's a nightmare.
Really good video. It feels more real and personal. Like you are not putting on that internet personality mask like I see all over. Not saying that they are bad but it just usually feels like a high-school presentation. Very relatable video. Your memory of your childhood make me feel better cause my group hardly seems to dig deep or share these complex situations of their past. Like I can see things like a movie once I snapped into consciousness. I have a long story about that one. Anyway thank you for the video. I feel less like an alien. BTW I always give way too much info
Wow just had to comment about the cat thing! For YEARS I pretended to be a dog, I could run really fast on all fours, I would have my mom call me by my "dog name" when I was in dog mode ha ha I always put my hair in pig tails and put a belt in the back of my pants to be a tail. My brothers hated it and would even lock me outside sometimes and told me I needed to walk like a human, I probably did this until I got to middle school. Never thought I'd hear someone else say they did the same thing.
I tried to write a zine around that age too! 😂 I also wanted to put on a lip sync concert and a block party including a piñata stand and an apple stand (selling green apples from my tiny apple tree and red apples from my friend’s mature apple tree)…I was an imaginative little planner. 😂
😂 my friends and I had parents who typically squashed those ideas or we were too shy/disorganized to pull them off. We often had lemonade/koolaid stands though and practically had a tent city every summer in our backyards.
