Do you feel like you were born in the wrong era?

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I, ever since I can remember, I had a sensitivity to the early 1900s, like 1900-1919. At first, I was creeped out by it, found it freaky oddly, yet was oddly drawn to it.

Lately, I've been drawn even more to it. In the past year, I've wanted to hear of it at every opportunity, picture the chaos, the dress-wear, the inspirations and tastes and sights and smells, like I was supposed to be there. I was obsessed with the Romanovs and Peter Pan. My favorite book is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Every time I see footage of it I perk up.

Now, maybe my knowledge of that era is too limited for me to tell if I would really want to live in it, but my feeling, my fascination, the longing to be there and live there and be a part of it all... Is it normal? Or at least, can anyone else relate?

Not really. I feel like any time in the past would be harder for an Aspie.

I have fantasized about having been born during a star-faring era of human future history.

Was I born at the wrong time? No. I was born when I was born, and that's all there is to it.

I have always felt drawn to both the Colonial period and the Victorian Era, but don't think I would've had the physical and emotional stamina to survive either one for very long unless I had been a part of the privileged upper class with all the comforts of the times, and the servants to take care of me, lol.

In all reality however, I really think I would function better if society was like the 50s and 60s where all women had to do was be housewives and didn't need to provide income as well, or be judged by society if they simply WANTED to be a housewife instead of having a career.

I have always been fond of Rhodesia especially from 1965-1980 in which I would have joined the RLI (the Rhodesian Light Infantry) in order to take up arms against Mugabe and his leftist thugs on behalf of Ian Smith.

I also could imagine myself being alive during the late Victorian era as a British Colonist far away from the mother country yet ever so loyal to the crown wearing a khaki uniform and pith helmet.

Nope, not me. I like modern amenities and I don't want to be part of a time period where the rights of non white men in the US were so bad. Mind you, there's still lots of problems now.

Not to mention, as someone who isn't cis, is gay spectrum and ace, and who is severely mentally ill... no. I'd be dead or in an asylum.

In some ways I do. I always have thought if I were born in a pre-industrial revolution time, like pioneering days or something, I'd have been more able to be content. I really struggle with a lot of modern thinking and the structure of our lives. Our current day lifestyles and my issues have made me lazy, but at heart I think I'd have been happier when things were simplified to directly working for your own basic necessities without reliance on anyone but your family and community if you were part of one.

Of course me in 2016 going back in a time machine would be a different story. I'd wind up killing myself or dying from all the work.