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Looking back as I try to jusfify having autism, it really is almost funny how many warning signs myself, and my family have ignored. One of them being that every time I get remotely stressed, like being put in a new location or basically someone talking to me I just start spinning my phone rapidly. Like why didn't I think of why I did that??? And I was talking to my mom and she goes "you know you used to be so scedual oriented as a kid, if we went shopping mid day you would freak out because you couldn't watch your cartoons, I would have to give you 15 or 20 minute warnings, not five because that wasn't enough". Like autism red flag mom geez!
And during this conversation I was trying to find an in into mentioning that I though I might be autistic so I say " oh and I used to love lining up my hotwheels too right?" She said yes. WHAT??? Glad autism awareness is growing nowadays but I'm still shocked I got this far undetected, I'm like the batman of autism.