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Does Autism get Worse as you Age?

That's brilliant that you've managed to work out what you need and to be able to carry it out. I'd love to get to where you are now one day but I'm afraid anxiety is something I'm stuck with and I don't seem to have control over what thoughts come in to my head.

That's a stunning photo :)
 
Alex 25 said:
That's brilliant that you've managed to work out what you need and to be able to carry it out.
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I kicked myself for quite a while when I finally recognised the pattern. Seeing patterns is something I'm normally very good at but it took most of my life to notice that one. :(

I also have no control over what thoughts pop in to my head, but with practice I got good at changing the subject really quickly.
 
I am amazed that it took me this long to discover this thread, and here I am 55 days away from my 79th birthday.

After reading through everyone's comments, I think I may be a bit of an oddity. My autism has been less of a problem as I have aged. My teens and twenties were absolutely horrible, but I think that is true of many of us on the spectrum. My thirties saw improvement in my socializing, and I was married at 38. We are still together as a couple but have lived in separate abodes for more than half of our marriage. The 40 years of the occasional emotional overload that would send me into shutdown or a meltdown gradually decreased as I learned how to deal with them. Now whenever I feel myself slipping towards one, I have developed tactics to push through them and end them in a speedier and healthier fashion.

I have not been deeply depressed in some forty years, thanks to my resolution of a three month continuous depression. That shifted something in my brain chemistry I think, but I have no explanation backed with empirical evidence.

I may be the odd person out, in some ways, as I consider myself less autistic with age. Sure all the signs are still there if you spend enough time with me, and it isn't due to masking, as I stopped doing that decades ago. I have a habit of blurting out that I am high functioning autistic to strangers. I do this in an effort to educate the ignorant about what autism is and how I consider it a superpower. It certainly helped make my life better, even with all the contentious moments that arrived unbidden.

I have numerous MRI scans of my brain and I found the medical analysis of them amusing. None of those had anything to do with my autism, but they provided some illumination.

I guess it may be due to my finally arriving at a place where I like myself and I am comfortable with all aspects of my being. How did I get there with so little strife? I have no idea. I feel for anyone who is struggling. I wish I could tell you how to get through whatever problems you struggle to deal with. It can't be my intelligence for their are autistics that test a higher IQ than myself, but then I was always horrible at timed multiple choice tests (one of my more persistent autistic downside. whatever it may be though, I am grateful for it.

That's my story and I am sticking to it.
 
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