Our life expantancy is 58 apparently.

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It's a brilliant reference and makes me very happy. It's exactly what my old friend Frankie used to say to me when we were first getting sober.

That was a good story.

I guess the breakthrough for me was understanding that the destination is not the goal. The journey is the goal.

I avoid driving long distances by hiring a driver to get to the airport. It is best to know one's limitations. I am pretty far from the best driver in the world. I get so immersed in my interior world that I will miss turns, even to familiar destinations. Also,

"Champagne when diagnosed, because then I knew why people were strange."

This is true.

Yeah that is true, and I have PTSD on top of the autism so that makes me even a little more afraid of that part because PTSD also makes your body have overreactive stress symptoms, when its not nessisary, like all the stress I have gotten could make my life shorter than it would have been without all that, because for sure stress does take a toll on the body. And for me I attemted suicide when I was 15 and with therapy and stuff I got to a point I did not want to do that anymore and now even though it sucks sometimes I want to live as long as possible but who knows what damage all the stress I have already has caused and i am sure has already shortened my life. So Idk if I will live as long as I'd like to probably not since forever seems good to me, but I am not a vampire someday it will all end and well I don't look forward to it.

My boyfriend did the same we booked a shuttle to get us to the airport cause my boyfriend didn't want to drive to the denver airport and then try and find parking. but then also I had finally got myself setteled that there is nothign wrong when a plane lifts off and started getting used to the feeling for one flight, from Colorado to Missouri to go visit a friend he had out there. Then a few weeks later we had to go to wisconsin to meet our new baby neice and flight in was normal. but then on the way back from wisconsin when the plane started going into the air their was a big gust of wind and it was getting blown all over for a minute and that scared the crap out of me, but the flight attendents didn't seem scared so that helped me realise everything was fine but still that is the roughest taking off into the sky I ever experienced so it did scare me at first. I did end up paying 13 dollars for an overpriced double shooter and some ginger ale to wash it down cause that flight was making me nervous and so an adult beverage seemed like it might help to calm the old nerves. But yeah idk I am a bit afraid of heights and planes go very high.

I have seen all sorts of information online that suggests that the life expectancy is lower for the average, adult autistic person. I think there is some truth to it, and it probably affects a wide range of people from level one down to level three, for different reasons.

Yes,, had read about the effects of cortisol on the system..And have been steeped in the stuff since was a baby.
Will not go into the major negative experiences. But have had repeated multiples of them .
Oddly enough had read that average trans person only gets to age to 21 rarely past that..but have seen older .
Just by happenstance ..Pretty amazing stuff people can do with their anatomies ..
And by a large amount of Doctors opinions , it would seem, I should visiting Heaven long ago . ..
Using the , home made term..of "Cortisol poisoning".Not a real thing! Found a overly competint much older ER Doctor, that prescribed me Hydrocortisol as a regular or as needed med . He apparently detected something with my heart too,so Dygoxin was ordered too. Pardon the length of Post but the thought process became amazingly clear to me.. Had blood tested most all my life for raging Cortisol levels. And it created eventually many issues, including many suicidal ideations. And other Skin rash side effects,that were NOT dermatological in origin. Mast Cell.Early onset Asthma,etc. ...high inflammation, in awhole bunch of joints .Nervous disposition..?etc.started a cleaner diet , lots of veggies.
But by adding "Cortisol " over a above normal . The body then reacts to the extra production of Cortisol,using harmless
hydrocortisol,( generally harmless?) And shuts down production . For that period of time . Helping to normalize levels
was the idea. And I am a older Aspie and "beaten the odds"( Gawd willing).. Just thought to offer this as a Thought bubble..Long life and Good Health to all, ( provided you wish that) in all your lifes journeys.

It's often been said that the Victorians had a lower life expectancy than modern people, but somebody reckoned the average life expectancy is misleading because a lot of Victorian children died very young, which skewed the figures - if you made it to adulthood, you stood as good a chance of achieving longevity as we do these days. Statistical averages are strange like that. The average person has less than two hands. Just food for thought, I really don't know.

Apparently I was ahead of my time!

I flew recently about 2 hours to New England. I don't really mind it all that much, the only thing that annoys me is the proximity of other people, it seems very strange to be so close together (in coach). However, this annoys everybody. That is why the airlines make money selling first class tickets.

What scares me the most is driving 70+ mph on the highway, which we have to do nowadays. I am not confident at all about that, especially at night, because my night vision is poor. I really don't like driving at all and take measures to avoid it. However, if I do have to drive a long distance, I will break it up by booking an AirBnB at four to five hour intervals along the route. Slow and steady wins the race.

That's funny!
I drive faster than that on my driveway....and that's bare clay.
(That's how fast you need to drive to get your rooster tail over 5 metres high.)

I call horsesh** on this video. When I was looking into longitudinal life wellness of you guys I saw improvement over time.

There is a lot of money to be made in diagnosing and "treating" children on the autism spectrum, so some people love to scare the pants off of parents whose kids may be showing signs of being autistic. And these days, most of us would qualify as being on the spectrum as children even though most of us are not, in fact, autistic.

Sweetleaf, you in particular will live a long, good life, because you are a good person with a wonderful heart.

Even ..if I do pass on someday ..I will not be forgotten...but odds are high for me to live a full life . Unless my own mind desires to shorten it ...which I will struggle against , with every piece of research I can find...and hopefully be able to apply it.