Getting Worse with Age?

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My social skills are definitely deteriorating as I head towards 60. Anyone else notice this?

New fear unlocked! I thought it was just me.

But yeah, I don't have the time or patience anymore to waste energy playing social games anymore. Especially as I've learned over the decades that I don't actually do it well enough anyway.

Burnout is unfortunately very common in autistic adults. We can mask, push
through, grit-our-teeth-and-bear-it so
much until we can't. Thus, we seem "more
autistic."

It is not just autistic people, I think all people feel more isolated the older they get. It is because the main reason people get together with others is due to physical attraction. As we age, that factor diminishes, hence isolation results as people drift away and new ones do not enter our orbit. The lack of friends means social skills diminish, because friends exercise the social skills like a gym. One way to counter this trend is through work, that is one of the reasons I am still working, because I know I get social exercise from work. People will be around you due to compulsion in the work environment, they need you for various things work-related.