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Looking a lot younger?

Ereth said:
Let me spell it out for you then:

I chose to take it as a compliment rather than an insult because I didn't feel like making myself depressed.".
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That is just the sort of logic that appeals to my innermost nature. It is like you read my mind.
 
My problem is that I look my age. Yet, I have a maturity level easily 10 years lagging. By my physical age, most folks have established careers and/or families. I'm floundering professionally and I think this puzzles NTs that are unfamiliar with ASD. They see an obvious disconnect in my physical age and maturity level.
 
I am 60 years old, and Ilook my age and then some. Because of cancer I am on chemotherapy for the rest of my life. Before chemo I looked much younger. The other women I know on the same crap who are still living,look about 20 years older than their actual ages.
 
When I was 19, I was carded at a PG-13 movie. Now I'm 40 and still get carded when buying a bottle of wine at the grocery store. Though to be fair, most people guess I'm in my late 20's.
 
OH MY GOSH! I am always getting carded for buying lotto tickets because everyone thinks im like 17 and 18! I thought it was just because i was born 2 weeks early! Wow! I am still stuck in the teenage mentality actually. but i am slowly getting out of that funk. i hope. Maybe my going to school will help me out. Its so good to know there's a few people out there like me!
 
nurseangela said:
They already do out in California thanks to Botox.
:rolleyes:
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Indeed, the automatic sensory-motor-emotional feedback loop is as important as proprioception in the ankle is to not twisting an ankle and falling down.

Botox can actually render NTs less able to read others' expressions and emotional states and to have the emotional response that would normally go along with this automatically:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/f...the-ability-to-empathize-study-says.html?_r=0

Now conceive of this as present from birth while that same motor-emotional system is instead tuned into all patterns and micromovements around, instead of just to human facial and non-verbal cues... And it takes development down a different path. Kids on the spectrum won't lie much because they cannot assess whether it is "working" on the people they are trying to lie to. There are so many implications when this one motor based and proprioception system is not tuned in the way a NTs is (as theirs inhibits all the patterned based information other than from humans).
 
Where I live you get to ride the bus for free if you're under 16. I'm 25, I always get to ride the bus for free :p They don't even ask for my age.
I don't get carded at the local liquor store anymore but that's most likely because they know me, other stores still card me every time.
 
ive never had wine. mainly because my mom is extremely over protective and doesnt want me to be an alcoholic. lol! i dont have an addictive personality.
 
I got IDd for buying a patio scraper the other day - I'm 23. If I was planning to hurt someone I'd obviously choose a more threatening gardening tool! I always used to look much older when I was 11-14 because of my height, but I've been told a few times now that I look 17-18, which I'm happy enough with.
 
Eh, my family ages well. If people think I'm nearly ten years younger, it's genetics. But I don't like it when somebody talks down to me.

Until I have ample grey hairs, I understand getting IDed when I pick up tobacco for my husband or a little alcohol for either of us. Just doing their job, because those child laws are hefty!
 
Is looking a lot younger really an autistic trait? First I've heard of that. Well, I'll be 30 soon and people always think I'm at least 20. I do want to look my age so I can be taken a bit more seriously, maybe.
 
I'm nudging 61 and still have issues with being taken seriously ;)

Mostly because being funny in public is my way of dealing with them.
 
I know what you mean. It's hard trying to fit in with society so we put on a [happy] mask or whatever, and are used to not feeling 'normal' as a way of coping.

If this doesn't make sense, I apologise, as I have a language disorder. Hard finding the right words and took me forever to write the sentence above lol. See - lol - just laugh your way through your difficulties, makes life a lot easier. (I know that can be hard too)
 
Cupboardy said:
I know what you mean. It's hard trying to fit in with society so we put on a [happy] mask or whatever, and are used to not feeling 'normal' as a way of coping.

If this doesn't make sense, I apologise, as I have a language disorder. Hard finding the right words and took me forever to write the sentence above lol. See - lol - just laugh your way through your difficulties, makes life a lot easier. (I know that can be hard too)
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Made sense to me ;)
 
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