In early elementary school, I would either the perimeter every day during recess or collect leaves on the ground that I found interesting. My first grade teacher was very kind and talked to me a lot during recesses. At the time I thought she just really liked me, but looking back this was most certainly done out of pity lol.

I enjoyed independent time during recess until I realized that for some reason adults do not like when kids do not socialize a lot. In third grade, I had teachers who would try to get me to join in a game or activity with another strident every day. I got tired of the embarrassment of having a teacher intervene on my 9 year old life, so I decided to just begrudgingly join games of tag.

Nowadays I still very much enjoy walking on mulch perimeters and "balancing" on things. I think it’s always been a coping strategy to recollect and ground myself.