primeideal

Sure, yeah! Even from the first few weeks (10 days), I was very quiet and tended not to cry, so that my aunt would tease my mom about "this doesn't count as raising a baby, it should be a lot harder." I spoke very little between the ages of 1 and 2, although I learned a few new words and seemed generally attentive--I would point and grunt to get my parents' attention (fixating on, say, the page numbers in a book rather than the narrative), and seemed to be communicating enough that they didn't worry. At 20 months I knew my alphabet letters and at 22 months was spelling out my name with refrigerator magnets (the same aunt pointed this out, my parents were skeptical, hahaha). Then at 23/24 months I started talking at a normal pace.

I'd have to check with them for more memories of the 3-6 year range. Another uncle, a psychologist, had suggested that this might be a possible diagnosis based on not a lot of interaction with me, so it was apparently pretty clear to him.

I appreciated the mainstream education; to a certain extent, by the end, I was a little arrogant and thought some of the strategies were "dumb" and my fellow students had different challenges than me. I was ahead of schedule as far as math and stuff went, so I really appreciated the other tweaks to my schedule that let me skip ahead there. I had just an incredibly fantastic elementary school full of people who understood me and were willing to work with me.

I know I tried to learn "social stories" to script interactions, they seemed rather low-level and unhelpful at the time though they might have been more useful than I recognize. I think these days I'm guided more by my own generalizations, which might themselves be too simplistic but are a decent enough approximation.

Hope this helps, feel free to let me know if there's anything more (though I might not be very useful). :)