Even though you are a teen, do you sometimes feel older?

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I feel older then my years all the time...

My mom says I'm sixty.

I'm the same. I'm very politically minded- I have strong opinions about things other 14 year olds don't care about. I think very deeply and logically. I can't realte to people my own age very well, and find it easier to talk to adults.

I don't want there to be a diagnosis for it because it's a good thing IMO. It can be a pain because I can't switch my analytical thoughts off, but it's something I have that most others don't, so it's not really to be sniffed at.

People seem to be confused about my age. The first thing they do when they meet me is ask my age. I'm sixteen, but I do look a couple years younger. I just don't talk like a typical teenager. I'm a teenager who looks forward to school, knows what to do in life, and doesn't like to make enemies or cause drama.

At the same time, my peers try to put me down for being "so obsessed with physics" instead of "cool, you found your passion in life". I haven't had one good friend in ten years. And I'll wait another ten years just to find one good friend instead of having a lot of fake ones. I really only get along with adults.

I think it's uplifting that other teens here feel the same way I do.

I have a shamelessly elitist problem where I don't understand how people who aren't intellectuals think. I understand different kinds of intellectuals (scientific, humanities, artsy, traditional, liberal, green, blue, purple, red, brown...), but what of the average teenager? I mean, what do people who don't read think about all day? In a scientific poll, three out of four Americans were found to have not read a book in the past year (at the time of the poll).

Oh my God, how do they think? What do they think about? I'm genuinely curious! I can't imagine having a mind without having knowledge to put in it.

I guess I am sixty.

After witnessing all the stupidity committed by my fellow peers, of course I feel older. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only male student in my school with any sign of intelligence.

always

I think like an adult but act like a child.

On the internet, I'm a bit more mature than in school...

I do feel older. But I also think that AS is complex partly because science isn't quite advanced enough to understand it-- it is, after all, a pretty big umbrella. I think there is a lurking variable (Wikipedia is your friend) but don't agree that people are just trying to silence us because we're smarter or something.

For example, with some of my medications, when I go off them, I utterly break down. I CANNOT function. I probably have depression, and I seem to cope better with life when I am on Lexapro.

I think that it just ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS HARD.

And I know that maybe if we made a community of other people like us, we might not have to worry. The thing is, there's times where I WON'T EAT if someone doesn't remind me because I can't always tell I'm hungry. That's just f****d up.

If we yank out our support system, yeah, we might do okay. But we might shoot ourselves. I would have if it weren't for my parents. I love them to death. (ha, bad pun ><)

We do, however face considerable discrimination. Having a word, a label just seems to help NT people understand us more...

Does that help or did I make it worse? >< speaking of chewmical issues, I need water, I think.

I work with a bunch of old, old, OLD people. I work hours that usually only old people work.

But meh, I still act like a kid sometimes.

I don't know. I guess it averages out to me being 18. Which I am.

I feel like a paradox... I can't fathom what goes on inside me sometimes.

I feel like I have the intelligence and understanding of someone older, with the emotional maturity and dependence of a child...

I am mature... I have mature interests in a few fields, but emotionally... no.

I wouldn't have it any other way though.

I feel (and act) like I'm in my early 20's.

I've felt like this quite a lot in my life.

I feel like I am older and smarter because of the following two reasons:

1) Almost all people in my school are ret*ds, so I feel smart most days
2) I can very easily make adults go "wow" when I am talking about a subject of interest but its because I do a lot of research on it, however, not because I'm any smarter than them. Anyone could do research like I do with the internet and a bit of time

However, I do have good logic and I think differently, which sometimes has good results and sometimes has bad ones.

I think almost all Asperger teenagers are gonna feel smarter coz they will mostly be above their peers, however they will feel like they want to be normal like everyone else at times, but when I feel like that I just say this to myself "dont forget people who had Asperger's who are all successful and rich like Bill Gates. And plus, if I didnt have Asperger's, I would act like all the other idiots in my school", that always cheers me up

In general, all Asperger's people are above average intelligence, and even if your not or dont think you are you are still special and you should be proud.

You dont have a disorder, you have a gift. Always remember that.

Wow, you totally nailed it for me. I always feel older. Weird...