Today I thought I'd try a different kind of post. Now I love doing my beauty posts, but I thought to myself that you guys don't know me that well. I mean you know me through my beauty posts and can tell what kind of person I am, but I wanted to write a 'getting to know me' post. I think this will be a series of posts and they'll change each time so I won't write everything about me in one post, that way you'll get to know me a little better. I'm not sure how often I will be writing this series, but we'll just wing it.
Let's backtrack a little here, before my sister was born I was happy and quite an independent toddler- I was talking and understanding conversations by the age of 1 and walking before I was 1, so I was doing pretty well for myself. I would obviously have the moods and tantrums that a normal toddler would have, but everything changed when my sister was born. I was 3 and things started to go downhill. Not massively, but I would want to be carried down the stairs rather than walk and just little things like that. Things like that eventually stopped but I was still having tantrums. When my sister and I used to make games up, I would tell her what character to be and how the game was going to go. I know that sounds like I was being bossy, but it'll make sense later. I would have meltdowns and they were worse when plans changed. I remember my parents having to stop telling me where we were going incase the plans changed as I would go into this big meltdown.
When I started secondary school my teachers noticed there wasn't something quite right with me. I was developing just not like everyone else. When I was in year 8 the school called my mum up and asked if it was possible for them to run some tests with a specialist as I wasn't where everyone else in my class was. My mum agreed and I had a test done with a specialist. I remember being asked a load of questions with 4 pictures and one was the answer. I would sometimes pick the right answer and other times pick the literal answer. Once the tests had been completed we got a letter in the post saying that my tests had concluded that I had Asperger's syndrome. Asperger's is a form of autism, I don't fully understand it myself but I know that I have a type of autism. I'm not as autistic as some of the people on the spectrum, but I'm still on there as I have a mild form of it. As I was diagnosed much later than I should have been there wasn't enough evidence or proof to properly diagnose me- I had learnt to deal and cope with Asperger's long enough which is why they couldn't properly diagnose me. I still went to visit a specialist to help me cope and deal with it even more and to help me develop.
My mum says looking back on it now, she can see that my tantrums when plans changed and me telling my sister how a game was going to go weren't me being bossy or misbehaving, but my way of coping and understanding things. I would have a tantrum to cope with the fact our plans changed and I would tell my sister how the game was going to go to understand it in my own head.
I still don't fully understand autism and Asperger's but I'm getting there and one day maybe I will fully understand it and be able to help people who don't know what to do when they have a meltdown- something I still get to this day, or just help people with everyday tasks which they find difficult, for me it's getting on a crowded bus in the morning to get to work.
My next getting to know me post will be on my anxiety and how I deal with it.
Xoxo
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Let's backtrack a little here, before my sister was born I was happy and quite an independent toddler- I was talking and understanding conversations by the age of 1 and walking before I was 1, so I was doing pretty well for myself. I would obviously have the moods and tantrums that a normal toddler would have, but everything changed when my sister was born. I was 3 and things started to go downhill. Not massively, but I would want to be carried down the stairs rather than walk and just little things like that. Things like that eventually stopped but I was still having tantrums. When my sister and I used to make games up, I would tell her what character to be and how the game was going to go. I know that sounds like I was being bossy, but it'll make sense later. I would have meltdowns and they were worse when plans changed. I remember my parents having to stop telling me where we were going incase the plans changed as I would go into this big meltdown.
When I started secondary school my teachers noticed there wasn't something quite right with me. I was developing just not like everyone else. When I was in year 8 the school called my mum up and asked if it was possible for them to run some tests with a specialist as I wasn't where everyone else in my class was. My mum agreed and I had a test done with a specialist. I remember being asked a load of questions with 4 pictures and one was the answer. I would sometimes pick the right answer and other times pick the literal answer. Once the tests had been completed we got a letter in the post saying that my tests had concluded that I had Asperger's syndrome. Asperger's is a form of autism, I don't fully understand it myself but I know that I have a type of autism. I'm not as autistic as some of the people on the spectrum, but I'm still on there as I have a mild form of it. As I was diagnosed much later than I should have been there wasn't enough evidence or proof to properly diagnose me- I had learnt to deal and cope with Asperger's long enough which is why they couldn't properly diagnose me. I still went to visit a specialist to help me cope and deal with it even more and to help me develop.
My mum says looking back on it now, she can see that my tantrums when plans changed and me telling my sister how a game was going to go weren't me being bossy or misbehaving, but my way of coping and understanding things. I would have a tantrum to cope with the fact our plans changed and I would tell my sister how the game was going to go to understand it in my own head.
I still don't fully understand autism and Asperger's but I'm getting there and one day maybe I will fully understand it and be able to help people who don't know what to do when they have a meltdown- something I still get to this day, or just help people with everyday tasks which they find difficult, for me it's getting on a crowded bus in the morning to get to work.
My next getting to know me post will be on my anxiety and how I deal with it.
Xoxo
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Twitter- saralouisehxo
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