Hello, Nc for this as I want it to be separate from my other posts.
I'm just here for advice on this thread because some things are dawning a bit on me, that I am now starting to realise are not the 'standard' set of behaviours but I am unsure of whether I am overly focusing on them and they are just me 'quirks' so to speak.
As an adult:
- Sensitive to noise. If I am on the motorway I need to have music blaring as the sound of cars unnerves me. But if I am reversing or somewhere I don't know, the music has to be very low as I cannot focus at all. As an adult, the sound of my DD crying would set me on edge and I'd become incredibly agitated (hormonal?). The only thing that makes me feel it isn't hormonal is that Dd is 20 months and if she and her dad are playing happily the sound can really grate on me but logically I know it is a lovely sound?
- Still cannot tell the time easily. I get anxious at the idea of having to tell the time (for example if I go somewhere if you have to sign in and check the time, I wouldn't be able to tell the time, it would take me about 3-5 mins to figure it out in front of someone else)
- I find maths concepts really difficult, and I am just realising now had difficult I find it which is a shock to me as I did well in GCSEs?
- very very bad sense of direction. I will often end up the opposite way going somewhere. I don't know a journey until I've done it several times (say about once a week or so for 2/3 years). I also still don't really know my hometown after being here 30 years.
- very very bad memory. I will not remember any book I've read. I cannot remember any holiday I have been on really bar one city break (I've been on at least 20 holidays that I should remember)
- really freaked out by the sound of bees/wasps/flies. Scared of them. I feel like I can hear them a mile off, on high alert for them. May just be a phobia tbf but I read somewhere that it is worth noting as much as you can.
I can't remember much of any childhood symptoms other than shocking sense of direction:
- had to be told which way to run in various games such a cricket or rounders
- struggled with co ordination/catching/team sports
- never figured my way round high school until the last year, even then I still didn't know it properly
- once ended up in a completely different town by accident as a 14 year old despite knowing where I was meant to be but just couldn't execute the journey (this happened about 3 times and tbh I just wouldn't go somewhere alone really)
I am very organised, maybe overly so, I often put in place failsafes for myself in case I forget something as it is a big fear of mine.