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No idea. I wasn't mute exactly. I would communicate but I would essentially just make noises with my mouth closed.

 

Like I said, weird kid. Is it possible to grow out of mild autism?

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Ahhhhhhh, you don't grow out of it. You adapt to it. We're all autistic to some degree. 

 

There was a girl in my Y5 class who would speak to kids but not to adults. She had no issue with communicating with adults, as long as she didn't speak. Weird.

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When I first became, erm... Sexually developed, I used to masturbate to "the box" because music videos were the only remotely sexy thing I could find on our TV...

Haha I did too. Didn't wipe it down the side of the sofa though!

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Ehhhhhhh, you don't grow out of it. You adapt to it. We're all autistic to some degree. 

 

There was a girl in my Y5 class who would speak to kids but not to adults. She had no issue with communicating with adults, as long as she didn't speak. Weird.

 

I do sometimes think I may have been very mildly autistic as a kid. There are a few habits I remember doing and I would be completely engrossed and zoned out during them. Now I know it was all very weird but at the time I thought nothing of it.

 

For instance, I used to think about death an awful lot as a kid when I was trying to get off to sleep in particular. It was a regular thing for a while for me. I also had a phase of pulling my eyelashes out, no reason as far as I can remember. Then sometimes at night when it was perfectly quiet I would completely zone out and focus my hearing and hear this high-pitched whine in complete silence. It wasn't tinnitus or anything like that, I can't really describe it. I'd also go into some semi-conscious state and hear what I can only describe as a lot of people whispering and overlapping each other.

I read a book written by a guy with autism called Born on a Blue Day. He said that as a child he would find comfort in making patterns which is a sign of autism. I would do this to some degree. I associated colours, letters of the alphabet and shapes with each other. Like one was red and a square, two was blue and a rectangle, three a green triangle (may have been influenced by Quality Street).

Like I said, weird kid.

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Autism is a wide umbrella. It's likely that you have some degree of autism, but it's nothing to worry about as everybody does. As long as it doesn't effect you socially then it doesn't really have an impact on your life (and even then you can learn to deal with it).

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Oh it doesn't affect me now, but perhaps you're right. I like to think I'm quite switched on to social situations and people in general, which is often what autism affects the most.

I dunno, we're all a bit in some way or another. 

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I remember the days of wanking to Eurotrash on a Friday night. Any glimpse of nipple or if very lucky, minge, and it was like a steel rod.

I remember plotting my 'adventures' with a copy of the TV guide my parents got in the paper, if Eurotrash wasn't enough I'd sometimes have to stay awake until 2/3am on Channel 5 to catch anything worthwhile.. and that was on a hand-me-down TV that I think my Gran had owned since the 80s! When I finally discovered 'Laid Bare' on Bravo I often plucked up the courage to ask my parents if I could stay up to watch SkySports.

 

Upon hearing a noise, I would instantly switch over to SkySports to be on the safe-side where it would often be WWF/WWE - I suppose I confirmed to myself at that tender age that I wouldn't be batting for the other team so to speak, as the sight of well-toned, oily men safely killed any 'excitement' as a result of the other channel!

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Haha I remember there was a girl at school who I had literally no idea liked me.

The way she told me was to text me one night, totally out of the blue, saying "I'm watching Sexcetera and its really turning me on"

Good to know!!

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I was exactly the same, but it was exotica erotica on Birmingham live that I'd watch.

The amount of times my dad would walk I'm and say "that was a quick channel change".

He knew

Ok as a naturalised Oxford boy who only ventures to Birmingham for the Villa and the odd night out, do you understand how absurd that sentence sounds? 'exotic' 'erotic' and 'Birmingham'...

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I was exactly the same, but it was exotica erotica on Birmingham live that I'd watch.

The amount of times my dad would walk I'm and say "that was a quick channel change".

He knew

Ok as a naturalised Oxford boy who only ventures to Birmingham for the Villa and the odd night out, do you understand how absurd that sentence sounds? 'exotic' 'erotic' and 'Birmingham'...
haha Birmingham live was a TV channel.

Full of shit shows and softcore porn. Perfect

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