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Do you look younger than your actual age

Stuart333

Are you well preserved?

I saw a comment somewhere that autistic people may look younger than their actual age. I'm not sure about this, or whether it was based on sufficient data.

Obviously we can't post pictures so this is going to have to be based on your own judgement or comments you have received.

I think I look younger than my actual years, my parents who are nearly 80 don't look that old, especially my dad, something the doctors have said. My smart scales also say my metabolic age is a lot younger (14 years) but I don't believe it.

What do you think? Is there anything in it?

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  • Very much so. People are always very surprised when they find out my age. A few days ago a woman who was clearly much younger than me accidentally bumped into me and said “sorry son”. Made my day.

  • in reply to A
    A said:
    Made my day.

    You enjoy to be perceived as being younger than your chronological age?

  • in reply to purelambdaphi

    Doesn’t everyone? I’m in no hurry to get old.

    A number of times people have mistaken my non-autistic brother for my dad. He’s only four years older than me. He does not enjoy this.

  • in reply to A

    It's nice most of the time, whilst also enjoying being hidden in plain sight, like when my son would play in a youth team and most of the other parents are easily 10-15 years younger and they never heard of Tiswas, and the oldest parent [because his youngest son was an accident after bringing up three much older siblings], says, as a matter of his authority, like we should all look up to him: "I'm an old man now!" not realising o'course that he's only a year older then me. Silly man; and his eyebrows shoot up and his chin disappears when I call him out on it. And he looks at me as if could give a toss about being the dominant one, as if I've stepped on his willy or something. 

    All hierarchies are BS, as you know, especially ones based on other layers of BS...

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  • in reply to A

    It's nice most of the time, whilst also enjoying being hidden in plain sight, like when my son would play in a youth team and most of the other parents are easily 10-15 years younger and they never heard of Tiswas, and the oldest parent [because his youngest son was an accident after bringing up three much older siblings], says, as a matter of his authority, like we should all look up to him: "I'm an old man now!" not realising o'course that he's only a year older then me. Silly man; and his eyebrows shoot up and his chin disappears when I call him out on it. And he looks at me as if could give a toss about being the dominant one, as if I've stepped on his willy or something. 

    All hierarchies are BS, as you know, especially ones based on other layers of BS...

    [content removed by Moderator due to breaches of rule 7 of the online community rules and guidelines]

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