Childlike perspective?

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An odd thing, which I assume is due to the Asperger's. I often feel that I'm looking at the world through the eyes of a young child - for example I had to climb up on a dryer yesterday to get something. It's hard to explain, but I felt like I was a 5 year old climbing up to get something. Happens a lot.
I also tend to think I'm very, very small (i'm short, but not that short) when I'm around other people. Like I'm a perpetual kid, and they're the adults. It doesn't really bother me, but I wonder how many of you have had the same experience.

Yup, this is me. I am quite short as well.

I like to think of myself being as the most childish world weary person I know. I love to hop and bounce and jump around my house. Running when people are expected to walk, looking at things, leaning in like an excited kid..

Not only do we feel that way, we often also look that way (i.e. younger than our actual age).

I believe it is "due to" us not having an inherent pack mentality. We are not designed to participate in the most common human relationships (i.e. "dog-like" relations).

Wow...I'm just amazed at how many experiences we all share.
I'm beginning to see this as a gift - albeit with some obvious drawbacks. I love my unique perspective on the world, and I think some of my aspie traits have helped me to be a good parent.
Do any of you still like reading children's stories? I love Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland and all the books I used to read to my children when they were younger.

I still have Black Beauty - my favorite book when I was @7yrs. I've been too busy to read it, but with final exams over, think I just might.

I'm 20 years old, and in many ways I still feel like a kid. I mean, I'm really "old" for my age in the sense that I'm really jaded, but at the same time, I'm still having a hard time coming to grips with the idea of being an adult, and having to finish school, get a job, find a place to live, learn to drive, etc.

I was treated like a king as a kid, and I remember people practically worshipping me, giving me stuff, feeding me awesome food, and taking me on awesome trips, but it seems that as I reached adolescence, those things all started going away, and to this day I'm still trying to shed this "entitlement complex" that I've developed over the years.

I also remember, around the time I turned 12 (a.k.a. the point in which my life started going to hell), I tried to become more "mature" by selling all my childhood toys, and quitting watching cartoons, and other things like that, and I had only realized later on that I kind of screwed myself up by forcing myself to mature, rather than slowly easing out of it like most people do at that age. Ironically, if I hadn't had done that, I would probably be an independent adult by now, rather than a borderline high school dropout with no job experience or drivers license.

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I'm glad someone else feels this way as well. While there are times that I feel like an old soul (much older than my peers or sometimes even my parents), the other day I was walking through TJ Maxx and seriously considered buying a set of play dough.

I find that when I'm learning something new or when I find something truly amazing is when I most feel like a child. It's like everything is new and bright and so much bigger.

But I feel like I'm a walking-talking contradiction. Intelligence of someone beyond my years, emotions and view of the world that can only be explained as child-like. I have never related to anyone my own age because I simultaneously feel like their mother and their younger kid sister.

I'm still trying to decide what to do when I grow up. I still swing my legs when I'm sitting in a chair (my legs are short). Most of the time I feel like a kid playing dress-up.

I am like that a lot too.

Yep. Feeling young is a symptom of Asperger's.

Hey, I've been working with a therapist, and he has told me that an adult is someone who takes "ownership" of his life, who does not somehow feel that there will be some person or institution that will be there to "protect" him.

I'm thinking that I can actually do that, but that I'll still feel like a child. I just wonder what others of you might respond to that....

I don't feel out of place among adults, but I still feel very much like a child in some ways. I think it has some benefits, because I remember very well what it's like to be a child and they often seem to like me. Past a certain age a lot of people seem to just forget what it was like entirely.

I'm a old one (35) and I STILL do not feel like a real grown-up. Almost as if I am pretending to be a grown-up. I work at a university and lots of people still think I am one of the college students on campus!

35? Old? Excuse me, you're a baby. I'm 44.

He'll be a conservative therapist, then?

Adults are also supposed to be able to make sensible reasoned choices. It seems to me a sensible reasoned choice that it's safer to encourage the existence of a fallback institution to protect, than to fight all troubles alone and defenceless.

Put another way: it's an adult thought out choice to be a child, it's a childish lack of thought to be a macho or economically conservative adult.

Yes, I am child like.

Yes I am like this. I live in sort of a fantasy mentality, I watch a lot of anime and like to pretend in my head things are like fantasy. I have the maturity of my age (25) but the mentality of a kid.