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    What age were you when you started walking and what age for talking?

    Haha, I did the scooting around on your butt thing too! It looks like a baby is doing the same thing a dog dies when they scoot along a carpet using their front legs. At least that's what it always looked like to me HAHA!
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    Do you know any famous people who had or have autism?

    I've heard he's quite the a**hole too though. I get difficult to work with and all that, but sometimes autistic people are a**holes too and it has nothing to do with how they are perceived or being autistic lol. Did you see why he's not running Microsoft anymore? It's because he's no longer...
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    Do you know any famous people who had or have autism?

    Thomas Jefferson is believed to have been autistic. If you learn about him as a person, beyond the whole "Founding Father" stuff, everything about him screams autistic. He was quite eccentric. I feel a special bond with hom because of his obsession of writing every single thing down. I do...
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    What age were you when you started walking and what age for talking?

    Just thought I'd add my two cents in here. I didn't start talking until about 4 or 5 and spent some years in speech therapy, and to this day have problems with pronunciation of certain words and a life long "mumbler". When I began talking though, my working diagnosis of autism was revoked in a...
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    Just To Start Things Off (calling all girls)

    Those experiences definitely seem familiar, but the way I have always viewed it is that we are just good at faking our way through normal, but maybe that's just me. It's like, you have to "act normal" just to get along in life, be accepted, not stand out, etc. I may be swearing up a storm or...
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