Aspies...when did you finally realize you're not a kid

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Due to AS, my emotional maturity came a lot later, and I only seriously considered myself a man since last February when I liked this girl (err...woman) in one of my classes.

I finally figured out what I was doing wrong.

This is my life and I need to do something with it.

Men relate by doing things together; it's how nature works. The guys go out and work, the women organize socialization, you know how it is.

I figured a lot out when I finally realized "I am grown up"

I'm 25 years old now and I haven't yet realized that I'm not a teenager anymore. I still feel like a teenager and I am totally puzzled when I see former high school classmates of mine now turned into what appears as responsible adults, with jobs and families of their own...

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Probably 75% Aspie, 25% NT... and 100% ADHD

Aspie-quiz results:
Aspie score: 138 of 200 / NT score: 78 of 200 => Very likely an Aspie.

For me, it wasn't so much a sudden realization, as a gradual shift in the way I think about myself. I definitely don't consider myself a man yet, though. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to identify with that particular label.

It's not about being a man from a biological standoint (i.e. an adult male of the human species), but about feeling like a man, about the way one self-identifies.

It's the same for me. Biologically I am a young woman, but it's hard for me to feel like that, since I don't feel like an adult in any way. I don't feel like a girl either, so this is just strange...

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Probably 75% Aspie, 25% NT... and 100% ADHD

Aspie-quiz results:
Aspie score: 138 of 200 / NT score: 78 of 200 => Very likely an Aspie.

Never really was a kid. I take interest in a few kid-friendly things, but for the most part I'd consider myself well into adolescence.

Hard to say really, I still don't fully consider myself to be a "grown woman" in the conventional sense. It's weird, parts of me, like school and work responsibilities, almost seemed to skip straight from childhood into adulthood with nothing in between, while the rest of me, emotional maturity, pleasure activities, ways of communicating, all seem to be stuck in this perpetual childhood. I still talk to my imaginary friend, play in cardboard boxes, and love running around in toy stores, while at the same time I'm going to college, working, and going downtown with my friends, all of whom seem so much more "grown up" than me, even though we're the same age. Most days I wish I were still a kid, life was simpler back then, not to mention more fun!