Ummm, let's see.....excessive crying in the classroom as late as 10 years old
always feeling different
other kids always knowing there was something "different" about me, even asking me if I was retarded, etc.
not getting "friendly jokes" that other kids seemed to get
other kids being easily irritated at me and I couldn't understand why
not understanding simple directions from teachers that other kids picked up
being accused by adults of "playing dumb" when I knew I wasn't
flying into uncontrolled rages--at 16, I even threatened to kill my boyfriend, and would have too, if I hadn't been caught
doing things I knew were wrong but I couldn't stop myself--as if an evil force had been controlling me
feeling like another person was taking over my body
felling I was living in someone else's body
not being able to pick up on social cues
spacing out a lot