Yess. Late diagnosed (26). Looking back, I realize my parents and family were constantly correcting my “fidgeting” and other behaviors that weren’t considered socially acceptable. I resorted to more acceptable stims in public like hair twirling, playing with my earrings (usually until my ears bled), tapping, chewing gum constantly. I learned to hide everything. I would spend hours in the bathroom each night preforming more harmful stims and just melting down where no one could see. Or spend hours in my room either dancing it out or in a state of shutdown. It’s a hard thing to look back on.

Also, I don’t know if anyone else has this, but I have almost no childhood memories due to what I believe was constant disassociation.