People with Aspergers

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I saw a documentary on tv years ago about a boy trapped in a 40 year old body & mentally he grows every 5 years.




Intellectually I can't understand things I used to know that make me feel so dumb.

Being 26 and back at college with a bunch of 18 years olds, I can lose track of my age. Sometimes I feel like I'm one of them, but other times I think they are immature and stupidly naive. Mental age is really flexible, and can vary massively depending on mood, subject, and experience. One minute I can be messing around at college and be like an 18 year old, then next minute a different subject of conversation can come up, and I'm talking about it like a veteran.

I look rather young for my age at least from what I've been told. As far as my maturity it all depends on how I'm feeling that day. Sometimes i feel like an old soul, other times i still feel like my 16 year old self. Though I imagine most NT's deal with this as well.

I don't feel mentally younger per say, at least not enough to where adult situations are foreign to me or that I'd be disturbed by movies that aren't child friendly. I wouldn't say I fit the conventional stereotype of a typical adult female, which could certainly cause me to come off as less mature or younger around them. I do tend to look younger than I am or at least enough to where people comment on it. I am really into metal music and will never give up the metal t-shirts regardless of how old I get so there is that.

I can only speak for myself but I do not believe my chronological age. It's gotten to the point where sometimes when I am taking a survey I will put the previous year. It takes me a while to process that yes I had a birthday recently. I know that they say age is just a number but still...nothing about it really makes sense. It whizzed by too fast for me to have lived that long.
Emotionally I would say I'm younger. I have more childish interests. I do watch adult television but my favorite shows are often targeted towards teens and I still like some teen shows. I also find that some things bother me easier than the average person. Developmentally I'm younger. People say I look younger too. Intellectually in some ways I am older though. I have been told by a few people I am wise. I also seem to have a stronger work ethic than many adults. Many adults want to work just for the money but I want to work to be proud of myself and not have to burden anyone. I have been told sometimes I should be grateful that I live with my mom and don't have to worry about bills. I sorta see their point but what a ridiculous statement. It's like if they want it so bad then maybe they should switch lives with me. Many adults also don't seem to know how to respect others. They complain about children/teenagers being ridiculous yet they are the same way except worse because they should be old enough to know better. They are immature in a bad way but my immaturity is mostly harmless yet I am the one that is ridiculed. For example when I complained about poor service to my cable company I was called a child I was so tempted to say I may be mentally a child but at least I'm not as much of a b***h as you are.
My physical health though it seems to be older than my age. I guess it is the stress of being disconnected to the rest of the world but it's still mind boggling. My ticker is fine or appears to be but my stomach makes me feel very old at times.

I meant to say "I still like some children's shows" up there but the dang thing won't let me edit because it keeps going to the captcha.

I´m 62. People look surprised, when I tell them. My bones and lungs are in the early 40es and I feel more like I´m in the 30es..... the 40es, when I´m tired and desillusioned.......but when I see a close-up of myself.....o´- oh!

I've seen plenty of people with autism.

And I can say, for certain, that few or none of them had "elfish" features. In the vast majority of cases, they looked "normal"--sometimes, the boys looked a little more "delicate" than "normal" boys, though. There is a tendency for people with autism to look somewhat younger than their chronological age--but that's far from universal.

The ones that do probably, pardon me for saying this, probably have some other disorder in addition to their autism.