Why do we look younger?

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Yeah have wondered about this before. I was being ID at 29 for pubs and liquor stores.(legal age 19 in canada) Stll look young at 47, lots of grey hair tho

I'd actually say this - it seems to happen just as often with NT's as aspies.

I'm 30 - still look and vibe up like I could be in my early 20's. I know that there are both aspies and NT's my age who look every bit 40, I also know many NT's even pushing their mid 30's who look as youthful as I do. One thing I will note though, there may be a correlation with ADHD, I've seen some people with those kinds of traits age slower, and with a lot of the guys I know who are in their mid 30's and look 24 or 25 - they live in the fast lane in terms of extreme sports, social life (have a big name around town), having friends like this I have to admit that they're outliers in their own right almost as much as we are.

Temple Grandin doesn't look that old

I don't look younger, I look older. People at school think I'm 35.

I think my hair has a lot to do with it. I notice that when I wear it in a ponytail people tell me I look younger, and when I wear it down I look older. Also, I have seen girls who are younger than me and look older, but that's probably because all that chain smoking they're doing is already turning their skin to leather, and I don't smoke.

I don't know why we look younger, but I'm 24, and people say I look 20-21 years old. In fact, I have a 22-year-old younger brother, and some tell he's my big brother, and I say, "No way! I'm the big bro!"

Also, my dad (who, by the way, will turn 50 this October) is always being mistaken as an elder brother of mine. (Which is preposterous, because I don't have a big bro--how I wished I had.)

I don't think I look younger than my age & I'm 18. I've seen some peole on the spectrum who look older than their age, so it doesn't always apply.

I don't think I look younger than my age & I'm 18. I've seen some peole on the spectrum who look older than their age, so it doesn't always apply.

Wow people never believe my age , but i always thought it was what i do and the way i dress ! !!

I actually look older than I am, people confuse me for being over 21 all the time. Hell, I almost got into a bar this way =D. Of course, being purposefully bald and having a goatee do make me look older than your average teen I guess. Also, I'm fine with looking older, with age comes a certain level of respectability in appearance, the look of the wise.

Maybe we just develop very slowly. In physical characteristics as well as social traits. We are behind the NT's in those respects. But I think technically and logically we are way ahead of the lot of them put together.

I'm 25, and get asked what high school I go to a lot. D:

It's so strange, too -- the last time I bothered to check my height was just over a year ago, I think. I was 5 ft. 2.5 in.
I measured my height at a pumpkin patch right before Halloween just because, and it kept saying I was 5 ft. 4.5 in.
So, I checked at home, and thought to pay attention and check my height against my mother, who was always a tiny bit taller than me.
I'm taller than my mom now! I didn't think females kept growing at this age??

I can still get the bus at a discount fare, which is nice~~ :3

yes I am told frequently that I look younger, I occasionally get ID'd plus I get treated like I'm younger. I have often wondered why but I don't suppose it's such a bad thing.