The Deeper Reason Why Cerebral âAspieâ Introverts Suffer In The School SystemAs a kid I was behind.
I didnât have the social awareness of other kids my age, my physical coordination was terrible. When other kids were getting started with stuff like piano lessons or soccer, I wasnât remotely ready.
When all the other kids were riding bikes around the neighborhood I was still walking around. In fact I didnât learn to ride a bike until I was 14 years old.
My parents were scared to death thinking something was wrong with me looking for diagnoses, some tangible problem with a name. I spent my entire youth being told I had a âdisability.â
Then oddly enough as I neared puberty, the gap began to close. By the beginning of high school, I was essentially functional, but still far from typical milestones in a teenagerâs life. I was closer to a late elementary stage of social development until I was in college.
Then through my twenties I began to gain traction and with every year grew stronger and began to pass people up.
Today at almost 30 years of age, I feel Iâve truly begun to come into my own. Socially I feel competent and physically Iâm well beyond the majority of my contemporaries.
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