Do you wish you could be children or underage teens again?
While asking about this, I wanted to touch this issue in the context of AS and the way it's perceived by others when you are children or very young people. Your parents are consoled by neighbors and friends favourably disposed towards them that your social difficulties and the impression of general weirdness surrounding you are things you are going to grow out of one day and you believe in this too, not having any reasons not to believe - after all growing out of some behaviours, problems, inclinations etc. and growing up to others in the same time is a natural process and you're still not "finished", you're still changing and getting more and more mature so you don't have any reasons to suspect it could be any different in your case.
Childhood is the best in this respect - your behaviours are easily forgiven because "you're a kid so you don't understand, you'll grow out of this" but also your life as a teen with an autism spectrum disorder (and a teen as such) also has more positive sides in many respects than when you're adult - first of all, being suspended between adulthood and childhood years, you don't belong to any of those two worlds which in practice means that on one hand you're protected from hardships of real life but on the other hand, not being a child any more you are given some additional privileges children don't have and an amount of them partially depends also on you, on the level of your maturity, how you use freedom you got. Also, when you're a teenager people still forgive you many things because you're excused by your young age.