I was similar - primary school teacher wrote home to my parents asking their permission to slipper me (it was a no).
Diagnosed with adhd last year at 45, scored ridiculously high on self test aspie but no incentive to get an autism diagnosis atm (my wife is worried the far right will get in and they’ll go after the autistics).
Would have been nice to have had a diagnosis as a kid though - my life would have been quite different (maybe more hugs less drugs)
My parents weren’t consulted - public school allowed it up until 2001, I believe.
Anyway, I just got really good at masking, and learning to understand systems such that I might subvert them. Sociality and conformance just didn’t really matter to me, they didn’t have intrinsic value - so I learned to act the part, and figured out the least effort methods to hack people into approving of me, whereby I could gain personal agency. They trained a sociopath.
It’s gonna be interesting to see what the future will be like, when today’s kids who’ve actually had support and nurture rather than an endless cycle of punishment are really running the show - fewer crazy fucks like me out there ruining shit for the rest of humanity, that’s for sure.
Diagnosed with adhd last year at 45, scored ridiculously high on self test aspie but no incentive to get an autism diagnosis atm (my wife is worried the far right will get in and they’ll go after the autistics).
Would have been nice to have had a diagnosis as a kid though - my life would have been quite different (maybe more hugs less drugs)