Last Week

I was on vacation all week and was unable to write in my blog until now. I will post two entries this week to make up for it, if this works out. In class on Tuesday, we discussed early childhood developmental disorders. When I was young, I never had a real issue with bed wetting, feeding or toileting. When I was a baby, my mom said that I slept through the night on most occasions. It was not until I a little older (around 5 or 6) that I started having this irrational thoughts that made it so I could not sleep. I would lay down at 8 or 9:00, and never be able to get to bed until 2 or 3am. I could not sleep, ever. I was unable to keep my eyes closed without something over them in my bed. I thought that someone would stab me in the eye. After awhile, not having a pillow or my arm over my eyes stopped working, and I had to keep my eyes open at night until finally I didn't even realize I was drifting and fell asleep that way. I don't remember how old I was when I grew out of this. I also had OCD when I was a kid, not being able to step on cracks, and feeling like everything needed to be "even". (i.e. - walking on each foot until it felt right, chewing on both sides of my mouth until I could swallow until it felt right, etc.) I grew out of all this sometime in elementary school, but not too sure when.