Aspies && Age - Do You Agree?

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I found this on a Website and it pretty much sums up how I've always thought about and described myself:

"Aspies are age-inappropriate. We are childlike and innocent and naive, even when having experienced many harsh experiences. It's a childlike innocence that pervades our entire being."

Can anyone else relate to this? I know I certainly can!

Yes! I'm exactly like that.

Yep....at times, my naievete approaches Forrest Gump's

Now...if I could only accumulated his bucks!

Unfortunately this describes me to a 'T,' yes.

I say unfortunately because I don't like this quality in myself. I have been through some very rough experiences, where you would expect me at least to learn not to trust again, yet I'm still a somewhat naive and trusting person by nature.

I'd like to think that half a century of being alive HAS taught me some lessons, and to be fair to myself I'm not completely without some wisdom gained. I've learned a few things and adapted and grown because I've had to.

But I often feel not enough, because of this persistent core part of me that always seems to remain more innocent than I ought to be.

Yes, I think there's more than a grain of truth in this.

What a lot of Aspiens don't realize, though, is that this innocent and 'unworldly' quality can make them very attractive - and I don't just mean to people who might take advantage of them. In a cynical and selfish world it's enormously appealing, and it's something that Aspies need to learn to use to their benefit.

It's a wonderful and admirable quality.

I agree.

Naievete does have its benefits!

I'm the "court jester" at my job. People trust me with their secrets, because they know I won't rat them out.

Same as the "court jester" in medieval times was, at times, the king's closest confidante.

Yes, I think that it is spot on in my case.

So far, it's a 100% 'yes' response. I thought that might be the case.

Yes, I agree I can be childish. I can certainly not handle any stress at all and glad I have a partner to handle
most of life's difficulties. I also get bored easily and can be abrupt, like a kid. Also honest to a fault.

In some ways yes, in other ways no. I approach some things with a childlike sense of awe and wonder. I also fail to understand why some people do things I would consider hateful... though I know people do these things sometimes.

On the other hand, I often do not trust people. In part that comes from harsh situations that I have lived through; it in part comes from the fact that most of the people I run into have been liars... they say one thing and then do another (or mean another). I understand that in part comes from my own inability to accurately access a social situation for what it is.

I really do not know how to answer this one. I find the question and responses interesting though. Good topic, methinks.

I doubt I project innocence at all but I'm sure my friends notice me treating itinerant studying and multinational corporations like they're kindergartens with more coffee.

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Many people have told me and my sister that we express innocence in a mature way. To me, that's a paradox, but just today, I crossed paths with an old classmate who told me that the reason she wanted me to be with her was because I was mature and she wanted to be mature just like me.