I Feel Like a Child.

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I feel like a beer.








Sorry, was that bad?

I left home at age 22 and never went back. I started out renting a room in college up until Jan 2012 when I got my own apartment and had my hubby move in. We are now considered to be in a common law marriage under Canadian law. My hubby didn't work since he didn't have a visa and he is in El Salvador right now waiting to get his green card. I am sponsoring him. I work and drive. I own a 2007 Dodge Nitro. I only go back to my parents for holidays or visiting.

This is why we need more supports to enable us to become independent, successful and capable. There seems to be a lack of support for adults almost everywhere, and I think more adults on the spectrum need to fight for these. I'd bet everyone on this thread has serious potential...but you all are stuck without the right supports and people who understand you. You can change this, one person at a time.

Merely brought a groan, it wasn't a bad thing to say, but I will return a joke I like to tell at such jokes... it was capital PUN-ishment.



Agreed; I can't believe the opportunities that we're not told about. How many of us on Disability in the United States even understand you need to apply for Medicare Part B within 2 years or get penalized? I got that confused with Part A at the time and I'm sure it because of that years ago, before I even knew what Asperger's was.

I had a great family to help, but even they didn't know what Asperger's was; I don't know if I would have chosen the career I did had I known. There were times I could have asked a few questions, like when I learned in college how much nonverbal communication made up the total, and I just figured that maybe my visual and hearing problems were the cause of my picking up so little. But, at the same time, I never could figure out how to verbalize that question to that professor, d explain why I was asking. (that being 1990, I *might* have learned about AS then; depends on whether she was knowledgeable enough about it, as it hadn't quite hit the U.S. yet.)

You's a babe. I was a late bloomer and then returned home after a year away (22-23) to afford to study. Then circumstances meant i didn;t leave again till I got married at 27. Got my licence and saved for my car at 22.

It's ok to bloom late....I'm 45 tomorrow - people think I'm 35......

Rejoice in what you DO have. And work toward it step by step.....and one day....you will feel like a butterfly.....

I moved out after highschool. I do still feel like a kid though, now 5 yrs later. My inner-self is a child in an adult body. I have a high IQ which reminds me that its not normal to run through yards, climb trees, get really exicited and run up and hug someone I like a lot in a child-like way. So I refrain... but that's the natural me..a kid. I am able to drive a car and achieve anything academically I so desire; I am not able to not want to run around get really excited over ice-cream and water parks and i feel safe when i am with my true friends as opposed to being alone. I still get afraid of the dark. I was born an adult intellectually and a forever kid emotionally. I hope one day there is more understanding and people who feel like i do can be accepted more readily. Its ironic: if i had a low IQ everyone would be understanding and get their little brownie-points for being nice to me, but since my intelligence is fully developed, unlike my emotions, i just get labled "co-dependent" or a burden by the ignorant self-seekers out there.

I think God for looking out for me and blessing me with some of the truest friends a person can have. It can be a good quality. to feel like a kid... I'll always have a youthful spirit and un-jaded excitement.

I'm 27 and some of the older guys at work call me " kiddo" including my friend and counterpart in Calgary....having an inner child must be some sort of company wide shipper receiver quirk because it seems my counterparts in Calgary have the same inner child personality as me. It seems to be more of a positive thing where I work and thus socially acceptable as long as the work still gets done.

Does anyone else seem to look a lot younger? Nearly everyone I meet assumes I'm still a teenager, and I'm not sure why. Or maybe it's how I come across to people? I don't really know how old/young I feel (I usually tell people I'm friends with that I don't believe in age, which is probably true since most people I'm 'friends' with are about ten years older/younger than me), so maybe that comes across.

Wow, you are my clone! Seriously.

i think is bc lack of experience, our age(me=29) isn't on the same level as experience wise.
that is why we feel like were behind others. that is what i think.

i do feel young for my age, i know younger guys who know more than me and more mature than me.

I don't generally feel like a child, but people around me definately treat me like one.

I play basketball a lot, and because I can't talk to anyone, people seem to be amazed when I make a simple lay-up.

shamo, there is more than that for me at least. It's also my taste. For instance, I much prefer YA books to adult books for instance, because they tend to have less filler and are more to the point. I don't have the patience for a lot of outside the story line stuff.
Sometimes I like clothes that people might call typical teen, like a pair of shoes I bought last year.
I like some manga, like Pokemon, Naruto and Yu-Gi-Oh.

I also see a lot that we are supposedly emotionally immature and I know that is true for me in some ways. No amount of experience would have made me realise some of the things I have the last years; only my own mind could do that when it was ready for it.

I feel exactly that way all the time. Though I work, I am single, live with my family and can't drive. All friends around me are in a relationship/married, got a lot of traveling. But I was stucked with my own browsing the website all days. Can't handle any daily social events with satisfaction like NTs.

i feel like that sometimes,
28 and still live with parents. I do work though but in the same job as I have had since 18(so obviously I pay board). don't drive, no bf. I have bought a place though and will move into it in a few years time. Renting it out currently to help with mortgage (dad's idea).

26 and still living with my parents......... *sigh* But I can drive.

I feel like this often. However, this is a new generation. Many, many people still live at home with their parents well into their late 20's and even into their 30's. It is normal. It has nothing to do with AS but with the U.S. economy. It is much harder to get on your feet nowadays. It takes more education, which means living poor while in school. Also, there aren't many high paying jobs anymore. Even if you have a degree, it is hard to get a job.