When you think of yourself as a child…

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Do you feel like those memories are you? Or does it feel like those things happened to someone else? As in the child you were seems like a separate person to the adult you are now? When I think back to childhood stuff the child that was me could have been anyone, I don’t feel any emotions, it’s almost like I am remembering what happened in a film I watched a long time ago or something.

Just working through some stuff and thinking about my childhood and I’m definitely in the childhood me feels like a different person to adult me camp. I wondered if it’s ASD related but asked my NT DP and he feels the same, so maybe it’s normal to feel this disconnect from one’s childhood? Just curious to know whether this is common or not.

Yep feels very disconnected for me too, exactly how you explain.

I remember it from a third person visual viewpoint

It might be influenced by reading a lot of my old diaries, but I feel a pretty big continuity between then and now. Obviously I've grown and changed in loads of ways, but I can still see myself in my memories of fighting bullies in the playground at 12, or climbing trees at 10.

In a third part kind of way in memories but even memories are very few. However I recognise feelings that I remember but were too young to understand. I was a very very anxious child but just thought everyone felt like that.