Skeletor
Well-Known Member
And now I'm a quirky nobody as an adult. I've found this to be the situation of many aspies, and I have a hypothesis as to why. People with Aspergers, and I am one, are usually mentally older than our chronological age, but emotionally younger. As children, our childish tendencies are seen as normal because we are in fact children. But we can also work college level math problems or quote Shakespeare, and are seen as gifted (I memorized a long poem for a fifth grade English class and recited it letter perfect for example). As we age, these things don't change. We still have our mental abilities, but emotionally we remain younger than our chronological age, some of us much younger, hence meltdowns, continued childish mannerisms, etc. We are no longer seen as gifted children, but as adults who didn't grow up emotionally.