>>17912819>mfw someone wants to hear about itThis is going to be long and silly, and I hope you realize this.
Well I managed to be born with Fragile X Syndrome, which involves having a certain genetic repeat level on the X chromosome. My "repeat level" isn't high enough for me to, in descriptive terms, "have it full-blown," which would've likely left me severely deformed/retarded/???. However, it's still there. I also didn't know I had this until I was 17. My parents found out when I was four but they didn't want to tell me until I was older (I'm 20 now).
Here's what I know it does with me:
>Slept 18 hours/day as a kid. This number gradually went down as I got older. I now feel refreshed after a good 9>Apparently the way I would play toys as a toddler was like an autist. Taking toys apart rather than playing with them normally, flipping book pages one at a time at 18 months>Bad speech problems. Years of therapy helped me get better, but it still shows in the way in the way I talk rather noticeably. I often stutter horribly over words or speak way too fast. Therapy enabled me to eventually be better at making sounds, especially the "th" sound, though I still have a very hard time with r's in general, and that tends to be noticeable in a LOT of what I say.>I at least used to walk weird, not sure if I still doThat's about all I can think of that I can say for sure. Otherwise, I think it effects how I think. In the past they thought I had extra grey (or was it white) matter on the front of my brain, but chances are that test was outdated 90's-tech shit and outright wrong. I've also noticed that a lot of the time, if I'm making a conscious effort to listen to someone, i.e. I didn't hear what someone said and ask them to repeat, I can't seem to mentally register all of what they say UNLESS I'm very well acquainted with the person.
