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Nostalgia and obsession with the past

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I live in the past. I fear the responsibilities that adult life brings; I endure bittersweet nostalgia for my childhood and schooldays, when things were safe, predictable, structured, choice was limited and my anxieties were safely contained. My past seems like a golden age, a perfect time, like a perpetual summer.

I am immature, emotionally, that is. I don't feel my age, and I am anxious nearly all the time. It is because of my anxiety that I yearn for a simpler time.

Are there others who are trapped in the past?

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  • I get told I look younger than I am, by about 10 years (in fact the amount younger I appear to look to others seems to be getting greater the older I get - maybe, if I live long enough I'll start looking like a baby?! :P)

    I read somewhere that this, looking younger than one's age, is common amongst people on the spectrum too, but I doubt that was anything more than anecdotal.

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  • I get told I look younger than I am, by about 10 years (in fact the amount younger I appear to look to others seems to be getting greater the older I get - maybe, if I live long enough I'll start looking like a baby?! :P)

    I read somewhere that this, looking younger than one's age, is common amongst people on the spectrum too, but I doubt that was anything more than anecdotal.

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