Do you think aspies are Neotenous?

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I used to get carded until I was in my early 40s. I used to tell them 'Thank you'.

WHAAAAHH
I am so jealous of you....

Since my childhood I always seemed older than I really am. So annoying. At first it is easy, but now it is annoying. I look like 5 years older. Not too good when trying to get a date or something like that. But it makes it a bit easier when you are trying to look responsible.

On the other hand, I still have the ability to think like a younger someone. That is worth something (I hope).

The rules here say "if you look like you're under 25, have ID ready", so I guess it isn't that much of a stretch.

I don't actually think I look younger than I am but other people tell me that I do.

I don't know what a 42 year old woman should look like to be honest.

I've always looked 10 years younger than my age. I also still dress like I'm younger. Mainly because I do not like to buy new clothes.

Didn't someone on here once theorize that we looked younger because we used our facial muscles less? Or something along those lines?

Was this a rhetorical question? because if not:

I used to look much older than my age as a teenager, and then it switched in my twenties. First time I was carded was at 24. I felt fabulous when I got carded at 32 The lady blushed and told me she had a daughter my age

Yeah, she looks good. It's difficult to tell. I think she looks young or maybe I'm getting confused between looking young and looking good.

True. While I think Miller looks young for her age, her character is supposed to be, shall we say, "artificially enhanced", so maybe the makeup department just pulled out all stops.

I'm in my mid/late 20s, but I always get mistaken for being anywhere from 12-16. I'm female, and I do not consider it a good trait at all. It makes it so much harder to do a lot of things because people assume you're a teenager. It makes it even harder to make friends or have people respect you, because people take one look at you and see a teenager, so they wouldn't even consider that you could be their friend or whatever. And all the awkward questions you get--how old are you, what school do you go to, etc. When you answer, they act all shocked. There are many other bad things about it, too, and only a few good ones that I can think of, with possibly more good traits as you get older and start at least looking like an adult. My dad also looks very young for his age, and was recently mistaken for being my mom's son, which was embarrassing for them both. He has a lot of ASD traits, too.

People say I look young for my age but I see that all over the internet and we can't ALL look young for our ages, ...so I always wonder whether they're just trying to make me feel good?

I took this pic when I got my new glasses...that was a couple of months ago...I'm 48. The pic is a little overexposed...I took this to show my FB friends my new glasses. I don't really have wrinkles and that can be seen as young-looking, BUT I think if you look at my face you can definitely see that I am middle-aged...just the overall look. I feel I pretty much look my age.

...I was (arguably ~ still are) that way .
I've called it " the Dick Clark-Cliff Richard disease " !

Oh wow... Congratulations, you look waaay younger than 48!

OMG! (laughing) Awesome.

LOL!! ! Thank you. But I definitely feel I look like a middle-aged chick. (Which I am...) A funny thing happened recently...my littlest son (age 9) asked me, "Mom, what year did you go to kindergarten?" I told him and he stared at me frozen in shock for a few seconds and then he said with a sort of awe: "Oh, wow. You are old." I said, "What have I been telling you, Mommy used to do her homework in chalk on the back of a shovel and we didn't learn about earth science because the earth hadn't evolved yet."

Lol'd. Pretty witty.