Reply #4: I think that's cool.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

:)

I had a 30% or so chance of having Down Syndrome when I was born--the doctors couldn't at that time do an in-utero chromosomal reading to check chromosome 21, though they must have known about trisomy 21 then. When my mother found out, she spent hours praying (she was still religious then) for me to not have to deal with that.

I am "normal" now, and definitely don't have Down or even really AS. However, I do spend an inordinate amount of time in my head, telling stories to myself, and have "shaking" in my hands that I unconsciously do when thinking, and consciously do when daydreaming. I used to say when I was little that the "shaking" made my thoughts run. Even now I am twiching an elastic band (my favorite) back and forth and around and about in between typing these paragraphs. I am very good at hiding this, though, and never do it in front of non-family members, so I don't think I could be on the spectrum somewhere, seeing how aware and sneaky about it I am. :D