Any young adult aspies here hate being called kiddo?

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I've been called kiddo before by older adults and I don't really like it. I'm close to 35 and a 72 year old lady the other day thought I was in my
late teens or early twenties. I was kinda flattered but because of my condition I think people think I'm alot younger than my actual age. One of my online friends is only 11 years older than me saw my online photo when she thought I was 16 or 17 and I was actually 29 in the photo and she called me a kid! At 35 am I actually closer to mid life than being a young adult chronically? Because in this article here it says giving birth over 35 is not exactly great: https://www.self.com/story/high-risk-pr ... ed-to-know
So 35 should be considered middle aged.

Any sort of condescension whatsoever whether it's with the usage of the word "kiddo" or any other such moniker is utterly repulsive to me. There are a couple of ways this could be interpreted though, an older person trying to broadcast the fact that he is older than you or they know that you're mentally disabled and they're trying to relate to you on "your level."

Either way it's is an unacceptable way to converse with me whether it's due to my age or the fact that I'm mentally disabled due to Autism (one of several conditions).

This kind of crap actually really really bothers me to no end.

Am I alone in this opinion?

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I hate it too.

I only get angry once people know me. People who know me think I'm older than 30 because I'm intelligent and well read.

If someone sees me and thinks I'm a kid it upsets me but that's cos I look like a kid and I like to go places with my parents. It's unfair cos my mum's NT and by the time she was 30 she was back into liking her parents' company too, this 'get away from me mum' attitude is really juvenile and teenage. I'm glad I never went through it except I worked in a shop and a library didn't want them to go in there. But I never refused their company in the same way that teens do.

It just really upsets me when I get given a kids' menu or charged kids' prices or spoken to like I'm a kid. But strangers genuinely think I'm 15 so I can't get cross. And besides, I quite like kids menu food, it's plainer and smaller portions.

I got cross when I was 18-25. I made sarcy comments til this year. But they just go on what they see.

34 and look like a Teenager sounds like a win to me.

My grandad calls me kiddo a lot. I'm an adult now but still very treated like a little girl.

I’m 58.

I wish I was called kiddo more often than old fart.

When I became an adult I thought maybe some of the 30 somethings on wp would stop obsessing over my age. I was wrong.

Yes, I hate it. I hate any term that makes me sound unintelligent or less than anyone else.

No one likes being called kiddo, it's condescending.

It depends on the context.