Published on 12, July, 2020
Do you look younger than your age?
Could this be autism related?
An autistic friend mentioned this to me the other day and then it was commented on in a thread here today.
I do look younger than my age and so does my friend - maybe by as much as a decade (on a good day).
Yes this is something that I have been told quite a lot and have noticed myself. When I tell people my age they say I don't look it. And when I've been out I've even had people ask why I'm not at school LOL.
It's nice but can be irritating sometimes as I get mothered a lot and still treated like a kid.
Yeah, when I'm in a new social situation people tend to not take me seriously or I can be invisible sometimes, for many reasons but I think one of them is that they think that I'm a kid
I feel you. I think people tend to treat you how you look, like it's instinct or something.