Childfree Aspies around?

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I'm exactly the same as you are with children. I never want to have children.
I can get very overwhelmed living with someome which causes be to appear very irritated. I live by myself (with pet) currently soon to be living with my partner.

I can't seem to handle a partner/co-parent, either.

I've had some measure of luck, lazy sperm, and a growing realization that I didn't want kids. I'm open to a relationship, though, and I seem to adapt better when I live with other people.

There has never been a time that I wanted children or to cohabit with a partner, but it wasn't until later in life that I was sure that I wouldn't ever want those things. I didn't know I was autistic until middle-age, before which I thought of my autistic traits as being mental illnesses that could one day be "fixed". I thought that getting broody and feeling myself capable of being a responsible, reliable parent might come later in life, once I had finally matured into a "normal" adult. By my thirties, I had accepted that at least some of my traits were probably permanent features, so I don't question that it's the right thing for me any more.

The reasons that I don't want those things are pretty much a combination of the various things mentioned in earlier comments. I struggle to look after myself as well as I'd like very often, and sensory/social overloads make time in my "sanctuary" essential at times when other people might be needing my support.

I've never been much of a kid person. My mom ran a daycare out of our house when I was growing up and it was a nightmare for me. They're just too loud, unpredictable, slimy, smelly, and covered in weird things. Also, I have a hard enough time recognizing faces and reading expressions, it's even worse with kids because they haven't really developed any distinguishing features yet.

To have a kid I'd have to get pregnant, and I've always found the idea of pregnancy horrifying. Thinking about having another person inside me, eating up all my nutrients and bone marrow and vitality, gives me minor panic attacks and makes me feel nauseous. People tend to look at a woman without any sort of nurturing instinct as some kind of freak, so I don't talk about this much, but I think it's safe to say that children aren't for me. I have a hard enough time taking care of myself anyway!

I thought childhood was an absolute horror show, which I would never want to inflict upon another living being. Also, even as a child, I thought the human race was bound for an iminent and catastrauphic Malthusian Check due to overpopulation, resource depletion, and pollution, which has pretty well been borne out by the current Anthropocene Mass Extinction Event and concommitant runaway climate change, so why on Earth would I want to bring one more life into the world simply to starve, suffer, and die?

I do have a mate who loves me dearly and understands and accepts me just the way I am; weirdness and all. I'm eternally grateful for her.

^^^you're as fortunate as one can get without winning the lotto, AFAIC

I have neither partner nor children. I live alone too.
My community does not understand why I love solitude. People look at me weirdly when I say I can't stand screaming children. I avoided playgrounds when I was a child. I was uncannily quiet in my childhood, and yet so very diffcult to raise, according to my parents and grandmother.
Some people who have known me since my teenage years now realize that there are things in me that are permanent. I think that is my core personality.

Childfree here

I cannot stand children. They are too noisy, unpredictable and require a lot of effort to keep alive. The process of pregnancy and childbirth also sounds horrifying. I don't wish to damage my body in that way.

I love my fur babies though. I have two cats. Very much a cat person.

I cannot tolerate living with anyone on a permanent basis, though short stints and sleepovers are ok.

Having a relationship doesn't automatically mean you have to live together!

I currently have one partner, and we both live separately in our own places. We see each other 3-4 times a week. Sometimes he sleeps over at mine and sometimes I sleep over at his.
We both love spending time together but also love our space apart to do what we like.

I made it clear on my online dating profile that I would never want to move in with anyone. And that sounded perfect to my partner.
We have talked about maybe one day living in the same street or having separate flats next to each other. That would be awesome. I love my independence and solitude.

No kids, as far as I know. Not that I've had an awful lot of partners, but we've always tried not to be too terribly reckless with things like birth control. That must be my problem

I've always kind of been on the fence about having children, though I do like kids. But as others have said, I can barely take care of myself, and every time I find out about some other hereditary disease I have, it just makes me want to stay on that fence even longer. No way do I want to intentionally put another soul through the kind of life that I've had to go through.

No kids, no (conventional) partner, and it stays that way, if I can help it. I can barely handle friendship, let alone the demands of a family.
It is weird with kids, though. I hate the guts of most them; chiefly on a sensory level (all the screaming, attention seeking and affectations), but some of them are really fun. The curious ones you can just talk to normally? Play word games with? They can be a great deal more interesting than adults!
I wouldn't want one forever though.

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I'm childfree and unmated, both by choice. How could I ever take care of anybody else when it's so hard just to get my own self through life? I do not think my life is a "gift," as some say. So why burden someone else with it?

I did bond with my brother's children but that's also where I learned how huge is the task of parenting.

not by choice, it was a default forced upon me. but as I have grown older and less ignorant, I am seeing the wisdom of the almighty's reasons for making my life as it has been so far.

Divorced, and grateful children weren't involved. If I had it to do over, I wish I'd known that marriage isn't for me, and that I prefer solitude, and the freedom to just be my weird, boring, asexual self. (But I figured it out eventually, that's what matters!)

If we were to do a time-lapse of the Earth circa 8k B.C. (dawn of civilization) to now at about a frame per year (10,000/30 fps = 333 seconds = 5.5 minutes) humanity would look like a giant festering algal bloom. As a student of biology, I don't need to tell you what happens to that algal bloom when it's depleted it's nutrient source, but for all those that aren't aware: all the algae dies. The problem going forward with humanity isn't one of enough fresh new bodies to refresh the ranks, it's about keeping the production of those new bodies small enough to be sustainable. Harder said than done when our entire systems are built around 'more, more, more', but I don't doubt some sentient species will figure it out in the future. Forget renewable energy for second, you're already doing the right thing by not adding a mouth to feed to a species whose own over consumption will eventually lead them to go 'pop' just like the algal bloom.