I'm autistic but nobody told me until I was eight. Up until then, people described me as "special" or "different" and I thought that meant I was destined to save the world some day.
A childhood belief about i'm different
others believed things like this
- i used 2 beleive i wuz an alien that had to save the world from "bad guys"— me not u
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed— MrK
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- When I was a kid I used to believe that cartoons were people dressed up in special costumes.— Sarah-Jane
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy