How long did it take to figure your life out?

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I think I found that job when I was about 22 or 23 but I'm not working now.
I never discovered my talent.
I never was really OK with socializing but I gradually learned to deal with it better when I was working.
I always was OK being introverted.
Joining WP & researching things & analyzing myself helped me out alot & so did getting a girlfriend who accepted me.

You´re only 32. You have dozens of years ahead of you to discover your talent, no matter if it can earn you a living or not.

Okay, I'm around the same age as the OP (late 20s, early 30s) and have just now figured my life out to enough of an extent that I can actually have some hobbies. By figuring life out, I mean stuff like having a nest egg, live in an area where police don't bother me for having meltdowns, people on my floor know i'm out and proud about autism, and have a career where i am out and don't get crap for being the way I am.

It's been a long time in the making. But for us, I guess it is as difficult as raising a family or climbing the corporate ladder, whatever, is for NTs. Just making a life. So, keep your chin out and keep working on it. The worst thing to do is to think too much. You have to keep at it and ignore the haters because there will always be NT haters like crabs in a barrel.

The only thing I have figured out after 50+ years of living is that I have nothing figured out.

Never found a job I liked or was particularly successful at. I have no talents that I can identify. Still not good at socializing. The only contentment I have in life is being with my wife and children.

Almost 29 and still trying to figure things out. I know what I want to do (art/illustration) but I lack the resources to do so (as in making a living from it). In the meantime I just create and hone my craft.

i'm 27 and I feel very behind in life dating-wise, relationship-wise, academically and career-wise

I am of the opinion that such a process is forever ongoing.

Finding out that I'm on the spectrum helped a lot (in my 60s). 78 now and still a work in progress. Like a shark, swim or die.

I am still trying to figure my life out. As a married woman, and diagnosed one year out of college. I had to think all the way back to my childhood to figure out why I felt "off" from everyone else. I've never held a stable job, though I want one more then anything.

I think life is a figure-out-things-as-you-go. So-to-speak. At least, for me, it is.