"KROM" > wrote in message
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> I think it is a protective thing when we are babies to tots so we dont
> worry about what's going on around us in the world...makes sense that
> we aren't ready as babies to worry about the lions outside the cave...
>
> but as we become big enough and fast enough to run away or climb the
> tree and take directions from grownups we turn outward more.
>
> I think some of us just dont properly change for whatever reason.
>
> as a kid I would never play with my toys..I would set them upon the
> floor and go to a high point like on the bed or a dresser and the
> toys would play themselves in my head I didnt need to move or touch
> them.
>
> I was a quiet kid unless bothered..then I would have a fit..it was
> like violence being done to me to be drawn away from whatever I was
> doing in my head.
>
> people demand to be paid attention to...so it was always a issue
> sadly.
>
> I am amazed I was never diagnosed..although I was taken to a place and
> knowing what I know of my mother she wouldnt stand for anyone but her
> being the victim of anything that would distract from her getting
> attention.

Back in the day kids rarely got a special label. The family just
accepted the uniqueness of the kid and did their best. I hate labels
personally but at least in this day and age getting a label often means
getting some kind of outside help.

> it took me 40 years and the internet to look outside myself as much as
> I do..but take the facebook games...they frustrated me so I will never
> play them again ever and am just as happy being in my own head

You aren't the only one who has spat the Zynga dummy Always the best
givers too ...

> online I'm fairly chatty if a topic or thing or person interests me
> but offline people deem me antisocial and are creeped out that my
> wife and I can go to a work picnic for example and be content to sit
> together under a tree looking at the clouds...lol

> it is tiring stressful work to socialize..we do it to function in
> society but it isn't fun

Its not fun if it doesn't come naturally. Me, I love functions