For context, I am 17 nearly 18 years old and I am really scared of becoming an adult. I don't know if it is because of my autism or the fact most of my teenage years were spent with covid.
As a child, I seemed mentally ahead of my years and seemed to grow up really quickly. But since becoming a teenager I started to seem younger than my peers, especially so recently. I still feel about 15 yet my 18th Birthday is in a few weeks. Everyone else seems to be growing up and keen to leave home and school and start driving and being independent. Yet I don't feel anywhere ready for that. I still want to be a kid and be in school and everything seems to have gone too fast. I am in desperate need of advice and if anyone else felt/feels the same and how they coped with it.