Asperger's/PDD

Yep, I kept a continuously running mental account of how many rotations I'd made clockwise and counter-clockwise. By the third grade I was incorporating the earth's rotation and orbit about the sun, conceding that our orbit about the galactic center was negligible in a human lifetime.

I was still doing it in high school, another great contribution to my reputation as a weird kid. I quit high school.

Wait a second, I have to turn around 360 degrees now for no rational reason.

I guess I was striving to keep the thin string that keeps me attached to this universe from getting wrapped up too tightly around me, to a point I wouldn't be able to move.

High school was about the time I got really excited about low energy CMOS electronics too. Maybe it was possible to build a super low energy computer with computational and anti-computational states??? (I was thoroughly messed up at this point....)

Eventually I taught myself to step out of the loops before they became constricting and not mind the additional twists in the string.

It's a long string.