For #AutismAcceptance I’m collecting some clips of me as a child.

I was undiagnosed but I think it’s interesting to look back on how I behaved.

First up, nearly-3-year-old me at a play park, not playing but just taking everything in.

Wanting to get up to where the other kids are but having no idea how to do it.

#AutismAcceptanceDay
Here come the hilarious attempts

I never liked sports, am not intuitively physical, am hypermobile, and went on to dread PE at school.

BUT, as an adult I loved dancing, yoga, and aerial silks (before I got ME)

I remember a lot of physical play that other kids thought was fun was a bit scary and painful to me. I didn’t like the discomfort and fear of getting hurt.

#AutismAwarenessMonth #AutismAcceptanceMonth

I think I would’ve done better in sports with very specific instruction, eg: what muscles to use in a certain move/ exercise.

As an adult doing physio, I would do the exercises wrong until the physio pointed on my body so I could feel exactly what my muscles were meant to do.

Next in this #AutismAcceptanceDay instalment, is My First Sports Day.

Other possible titles:
What Is Point Sports
I Never Learnt To Crawl
Why Run When You Could Walk

(For avoidance of doubt, yes that is me strolling along at the end)