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11:11pm June 16, 2012
[Toddler-me playing with a puzzle, while my mom sits next to me. My legs are splayed into a really weird position.] I had to post this because of the legs. I know I’m hypermobile, but I literally cannot figure out what my legs were doing in this picture. It just doesn’t make sense the positions my feet were in. And then I’m twisted around in some way. I still do things like this and end up wondering why my body hurts when I’m twisted into some weird posture. I have another picture taken shortly after this one somewhere. It showed my mom handing me something by holding it in her hands and looking only at her hands, not at my face. While I looked only at her hands, not at her face. That ended up going a long way to proving autism to CNN, because it’s been written that parents of autistic kids unconsciously learn to adopt that posture because there’s no eye contact or confrontation involved, unlike the usual more direct way of handing things to someone. My mom tells me she started getting in trouble at work because she’d learned from me not to make eye contact with anyone, and it affected her performance reviews as a respiratory therapist until she figured out what was happening and became more selective about it. It looks like this picture she has the puzzle piece she is handing to me, and she’s about to do that posture I described.

[Toddler-me playing with a puzzle, while my mom sits next to me. My legs are splayed into a really weird position.]

I had to post this because of the legs. I know I’m hypermobile, but I literally cannot figure out what my legs were doing in this picture. It just doesn’t make sense the positions my feet were in. And then I’m twisted around in some way. I still do things like this and end up wondering why my body hurts when I’m twisted into some weird posture.

I have another picture taken shortly after this one somewhere. It showed my mom handing me something by holding it in her hands and looking only at her hands, not at my face. While I looked only at her hands, not at her face. That ended up going a long way to proving autism to CNN, because it’s been written that parents of autistic kids unconsciously learn to adopt that posture because there’s no eye contact or confrontation involved, unlike the usual more direct way of handing things to someone. My mom tells me she started getting in trouble at work because she’d learned from me not to make eye contact with anyone, and it affected her performance reviews as a respiratory therapist until she figured out what was happening and became more selective about it. It looks like this picture she has the puzzle piece she is handing to me, and she’s about to do that posture I described.

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