Aspies && Age - Do You Agree?

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I feel pretty childlike in that I look forward to little, simple things. I don't have that sense of "I'm too old/cool for this" that teenagers are supposed to have. I hope that I never lose my ability to look forward to things, because that's part of who I am.

The opposite. When I was a child, people would comment on my cynical attitude toward religion, myths like Santa Claus, and promises to return a favor later if I did a favor for them now.

I was 14 when I told my freshman English teacher that the biggest lie ever told is "I love you". This earned me a weekly visit with the school counselor (who turned out to be only an intern doing pro-bono post-grad work for his Master's Degree in Developmental Psychology) for the remainder of the term.

I wouldn't say I'm necessarily the epitome of "innocence", as I consider myself to be fairly cynical, but I am definitely prone to child-like naivety in the more practical sense of the term.

I think I am fairly "appropriate" for my age. I am not naive, not innocent, and considered to be the "wise responsible go to person" in my family.

Not anymore...when I was a teenager maybe, but I have learned many things since than which prevent a state of childlike innocence or naivety. And not saying I liked that aspect of me, just made me an even easier target for bullying or ostracism so yeah.

i'm a contradiction. in some ways i'm very childlike and in some ways i'm like a bitter and cynical old man.

I think I was that way when I was younger, and then the experiences have left me a bitter and cynical human being... who just happens to collect dolls and draw cartoons, and whose life generally revolves around Disney and Nintendo.

Apparently society believes these interests in an adult rank up there with murdering babies and eating fluffy kittens. A cyberbully who drove at least one person to suicide gets a million likes on Facebook, but a person who would rather stay home and play The Sims instead of going out to a party to get stinking drunk while surrounded by a hundred other people doing the same thing makes them the equivalent of a leper. We really are on the wrong planet.

I actually used to host pretty big parties and I'm sure a lot of that laissez-fare tomfoolery has molded my image in the eyes of my family of choice, mercifully I was nitpicky enough about who I invited that I never had to deal with any such confrontational nonsense. After a while lots of friends went to college or moved elsewhere in & around town so now I just attend at most 2 or 3 of my friends' shindigs annually.

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I'm 60 but don't really feel like 60. Others I know my age nearly always seem to be far older than me.

I don't know if it is childlike, but I rarely ever dislike people -- I tend to like just about everyone I meet. Also, I quickly forgive just about everything.

Hi, IAA----nice to see you!!

Well, it has always confused me that as many times as I have been cheated and taken for a ride - my natural spontaneous nature is to believe everything everyone tells me.