Stuck In Time or Delusion.........

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I have read that us Aspies have a Developmental delay yet I feel mature and very intelligent but stuck between two timelines the one we are in now and when I was in 7th and 8th grade,now this may sound crazy but do we also have the ability to experience time shifts or travel?? or am I just trying to live in a time when my life was good??

I'm clearly no psychiatrist but "we aspies" suffer from PTSD even if nothing horrible happened to us. The PTSD will feel is from our lack of tolerance of the demands that neutrotypical society put upon us during that delay or at another time. Don't follow the mystical track...time travel, etc... it's is for those who don't want to face reality. Another thing, developmental delay is very unique to each individual - once you're caught up, you're caught up for good. If you never catch up, so be it. I know a lot of people who go through life pointing fingers at others who have "the label". These people who I saw do this were the "MOST" developmentally delayed. Just because they were never told something was amiss, they never had any self-doubt or criticism of "themselves". Thus, they felt the right to point out others who were actually MORE fortunate than them. The PTSD keeps on making you remember so powerfully that you feel like your actually back there. You're not time traveling

I get very similar, and the years of school bullying, an incident with a knife, and the death of a parent often consume my mind. I spent most of the time after finishing school in a state of depression and being unable to advance in life after school due to my particular set of AS symptoms and co-morbids, making the situation worse.

I often felt like I was time traveling, even when I didn't want to. Counseling and the eventual recognition of my condition last winter didn't help, and in fact made it worse, unfortunately the only thing that seems to be helping with it is moving out of the area and burning all the bridges I possibly can, start from total fresh with a partner who understands my needs and is giving me the support I need to get into self-employment, while searching for an official diagnosis to entitle me to help when (I am sure it eventually will) it becomes difficult for my partner. He's very good currently but it's all new to him and it will eventually wear thin for him.

And I'm rambling

On a personal level I've gone back & forth comparing and digging - is it the ADD or is it PTSD? Along the way occasional little pieces to the puzzle would fill in. Now I can be fairly confident I couldn't have been born with PTSD, I've never heard of babies displaying the signs. I think if I had something truly horrible happen to me I wouldn't have been trying to get out of the house and explore when I was 2. I tend to flinch when someone makes a sudden hand movement toward me and they are a few feet away and with reading sarcasm. Those in themselves could go either way but I've always developed slower across the board

The other way I read the thread title is a preoccupation to live in the past, but not my own past usually. I fantasize about living in the mid-20th century but in my own surroundings, like where I could take a 20 minute drive to go see Leo Fender making his newest model of guitar, but in general to see how clean, wide open and friendlier everything was

There is no such thing as time travel.

You're simply reliving memories in your mind.

Sadly, you're missing out on the present and the future by "living" the past over and over again in your mind.

Perhaps you feel the past is safer, more of a "sure" thing, easier,... or what have you. Therapy is a really, really good idea for this.

You don't want to miss out on your entire life because you miss the past so badly.

Time travel is possible.

That's if worm holes exist. . . How reliable is theoretical physics?

Theoretical physics is very reliable. But most people do not consider this branch of science seriously. Most people think that the Moon landing was a hoax.

I must take time to learn more about it. I'm very naive about it to be honest, but from the very little I have learned of theoretical physics, it seems very philosophical.

.... To the OP, sorry for hijacking your thread.

Actually I tend to lose time when it comes to that sort of thing, alot of the time I'll suddenly jump out of what seems to be some kind of staring spell, but most of the time I don't really remember anything that happened in real life. Just that one minute I was thinking about something, then the next thing I know, 15 minutes or more has passed.
It's kind of annoying at times.