Aspergers Gets More Noticeable The Older You Get

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I think if people get upset by the fact you are not married or attempting to get married, they need to learn to accept others who are different than they are. If they are intolerant of people who are different, then they are the ones who have a problem, not you.

I would say that my Autism was more noticeable in my youth where as now it isn't as my social skills have improved my confidence is better.

There are lot of single people out there who have never been married regardless of their disability or being an NT.

I can imagine it gets noticeable again when you reach old age and get Alzheimer's or dementia because you stop hiding it and you lose your skills you have learned over the years. That is the case with my grandma so I would ask my mother "has she always been like this or is that her being old?" since she knew her before she started her illness. I would ask my dad too since he grew up with her. But thanks to her disease, her memory is so poor she can't even remember things that happened few minutes before or the day before, she does fine with change now. My uncle was worried about her when my family was moving her here to a home so she be closer to my aunt and uncle because he didn't think she would be handling the change well and has always had that problem. But she did good because of her short term memory being gone.

Well it does. I'm desperately trying, at 31, to appear like a grown-up, but I still look like an awkward teenager which is weirder the older i get. Unfortunately, there are others elements that give my age away, so I end up looking odd.

I am in my 40s and still single. I do agree that it puts you in a different social class, with less in common with married people my age, but I find I have more freedom to do what I want, and that is important to me.