Autism Spectrum Disorder

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeah, I learned to read before I was potty-trained

Me too. Best reader of my class despite the diaper.

but it honestly took me until I was almost a teenager before I learned to tie my shoes.

I still struggle now. I have velcro. It's easier.

I can tie a knot in a shoe.... but I get tired of doing them up and undoing them and they always come undone so I'm not very good at it. And I often do multiple knots and sometimes I've even been known to ruin laces.

It can also take me half an hour to make my bed... and I can't fold paper or chop potatoes or cheese straight. And peeling apples looks like fucking magic. How the fuck do people do that? I even struggle with a potato peeler. I thought that was hard enough. Apples are impossible.

I still struggle to fold my clothes too. I always forget how it's done and they get crinkily. Paper is never straight though. And my handwriting is wobbley but who the fuck needs handwriting when since I was 6 years old I've been able to type like this after 30 minutes practice? All I lacked was speed. I never had to even learn to touch type.... I spent about 29 minutes staring at the keyboard feeling confused as to why my dad was talking me through it step by step, and then I said to him something like "Don't I just move my fingers where is closest and most comfortable?" and then he watched me touch type in amazement. At a slow speed for about a minute. Not long after it was a moderate speed. Took about a year for me to develop full speed. But I never really got a years daily practice until I started using the internet at age 12.

Basically the skill itself I seem to have been born with, it's weird (or a gift, just not much of one. Typing isn't exactly the most fascinating skill... I wish I was a pianist instead (the keys feel too big and clunky.... I often wonder if I'd been shown a musicial keyboard or piano from a young age maybe I'd have that gift instead...sigh)).... and all practice did was speed me up.

I tend to accelerate when I'm feeling hyperactive lol. I don't just type fast it gets faster and faster as I go lol.