Is it normal for a 15 year old to have a sleepover?

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For the first time in 2 years i have been invited to somebody's house for a sleep over this weekend. The person who has invited me over also has autism. I was just wondering cuz as I said I haven't been on one in two years and because I was wondering shouldn't I have grown out of sleepovers by now. I was also wondering because my friend with autism may not know that people tend to socialise differently as they get older. Thanks in advance for any relies

sleepovers seem perfectly normal to me.

as long as you trust the people and are comfortable around them then why not go and have some fun? keep in contact with friends whilst you still have them.
Later on in life if you end up losing touch with all your friends from being hesitant and distant like many ASD people do you will regret it very much.

Everything is easier when you are younger and people are still finding out who they are and what their goals in life will be.

people I knew were still sleeping at each others well into there late teens and often early twenties.
Obviously not doing things the people your age will be getting up to but it's essentially the same.

If you two want to do that, do it. If you still feel ambiguous about it, just call it "crashing". You're crashing at X's house. You can do that indefinitely without a stigma.

I'm heading for 40 and I still have sleepovers. But I phrase it "I'm staying at such and such's house on Saturday." or "Such and such is staying with me." It's a normal part of social interaction. When adults have sleepovers it's normally so the one who drove there can drink some alcohol and crash on the sofa or in the spare room so they don't have to drive home or because they live in another town and it's a long journey back.

I still have "sleep-overs" with an NT female friend in our 20's. We just don't call them sleepovers and they're much less common as time goes on. It involves staying at someone else's place for a night because it's more convenient than returning home at midnight or to watch movies and talk later than we normally would when there would be a return trip.

Perfectly normal. I am having sleepovers with my high-school friends New Year Eve every year as a regular meeting of old friends since the time we graduated. We all live/study in different towns now so it is the only option.

Yes!! It is okay, sleepovers are awesome and fun.
No age limit for that... just older people stop calling it sleepover to sound more mature
I don't know what males do on sleepovers but for us it is an integral part of female life. We get together with a friend or even up to more 5 girls, play games, watch movies, talk about intimate stuff, dance around, eat sweeties and junk food, make a mess, go to sleep very late all together or don't sleep at all. Totally fun. When we get a little older we may go to a bar or go out and get drunk and do crazy stuff, but always end up all together sleeping on the floor.
Probably the greatest revelations and secrets I learned in my life were shared on sleepovers! It is generally very intimate and fun, and help create strong bonds.

Yeah it is!

But people just doesn't seem to call it sleepovers I think. It's just a... a weekend with a friend? Or a weekend in a friends place or so. But I think the contents are basically the same.

Yes, it's very normal. When I was at High School a lot of kids were having sleepovers with their friends. I was actually 15 when I had my first (and only) sleepover at a friend's. I finally felt like a normal 15-year-old.

And adults have sleepovers as well, only they usually say ''I'm sleeping at my friend's tonight''. And it's not always necessarily related to alcohol either. Some people just enjoy staying over with a friend every now and then.

I remember a few years ago when I was at my first volunteer job, a woman there who was a few years older than me suggested we go to the cinema together then I can stop at her's for the night (which means sleep at her's). I was thrilled, but sadly we never got round to doing it. I then lost touch with her after she found a full time job and I left the volunteer job.

I'm 31 and you could easily call when I come back home from a bar a sleep over so don't feel like a 'sleep over' is some ubiquitous label that's only acceptable up to a certain age.

If you have a friend who wants to spend the night with you and watch movies, video games, etc. .... DO IT!

If it makes you both happy and you have an enjoyable night then f**k what society wan't to label 'sleep over's'.

It's your life and you should be happy. If spending a night with a friend makes you happy you should do it proudly and without embarrassment.

Society and especially with this insurgence of social media has created so many 'standards' that are expected to just be adhered to but that's absolute bull s**t.

If something makes you happy, and it's not causing harm to yourself or other's do it and don't feel ashamed at all.

I never even slept over at a friend's house until I was 16.

As a 20 year old guy, my 30 year old cousin slept over at my house just last night. There's nothing weird about it. It's totally normal, even for adults.

I am almost 17 and I have never slept over.
Also, I have no intention to. No matter if the person who invites me has autism or not. I fear that anyone might harm me when I am sleeping. This is the reason why I have a knife hidden even in my own room. Kinda like Christofer from "the strange accident of the dog killed in the nighttime", y'know.

I only crash at other peoples places if there is something preventing me from leaving or it's close family when I'm on vacation.

I only let two people sleep over at my place, and that's my mother, and my best friend. No one else is allowed too. I have a fear of being messed with while sleeping. At home I have two weapons within reach when sleeping in my bed.

My mother just told me two days ago about 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. I'll have to check it out.

It's totally normal. I'm a 20 year old guy and I still crash at my friend's houses once in a while. Most people just stop calling them "sleepovers" at a certain age.

My 17 year old has them, although they aren't called sleepovers anymore. It's just friends coming over for the night/weekend. It's not a structured thing or anything. They hang out in her room, or in the den, or sometimes go somewhere.

I'm 50 and my best friend sometimes stays here. I've stayed at her house too.