cross-posted from: https://lemmy.autism.place/post/222147
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I appreciate the story of these two sentences illustrating growing up without any diagnosis:
“Received 4th grade math homework in 2nd grade because he got furious over how trivial homework was.”
…16 years later…
“Patient has with SIGNIFICANT difficulties and enormous effort managed to complete an education.” (Emphasis theirs)
can you explain what you see as the story from those two quotes pls?
Sure!
It’s apparently a common thing: Kids who are “smart” and are clearly naturally interested in learning, are not followed up usefully. They can read novels and some basic multiplication, but have to sit in school and say the alphabet out loud and add single digits for months. Before proceeding to be told to read basic sentences for another few weeks, etc.
They are not pushed and challenged like their classmates. The teachers think everything is FINE because they are not behind, but the kids spend a full decade not learning to study properly because they don’t ever have to. They rather learn that they can fuck around and wing it and it will be passable.
Then at some point, age 15 and up, they are getting to proper challenging stuff. Armed with zero habits, no experience in failing, no experience in planning and organizing and studying methodically… Many drop out, burn out, get depressed, or all of those at once.
He had a huge collection of toy cars and Lego’s. He was very into video games in which he designed and built things.
He could not stand when his foods touched.
His uncle, the last of this remaining relatives, points out that he was “not normal”.
He had difficulty sitting still, made noise, and was disruptive.
He has always talked to himself and would narrate what he was doing almost as though someone was in the room.
…Has liked to collect information about history and anything about science. He reports he “can be annoying” about it.
Though he is heterosexual, he would hang out with the gay kids because they were more accepting.
He joined the Marine Corps…it was a very intense and loud experience.
He had a very sensitive sense of smell, and would smell people as a child.
He is very sensitive to the texture of clothing and doesn’t tolerate tags. He is particular about his shoes.
He does not like to be interrupted at work and this offends other people. [He] becomes overwhelmed by unnecessary tasks such as work emails.
11/13 for me
