Do you look younger than your actual age

Stuart333 said:

What do you think? Is there anything in it?

Autistic traits are associated with faster pace of aging: Evidence from the Dunedin Study at age 45

Includes:

"Autistic traits measured at age 45 are associated with faster aging"

 "Higher self-reported autistic traits significantly correlated with a faster pace of aging, older facial age, and poorer self-, informant- and interviewer-rated health. After control for sex, SES [socio-economic status] and IQ, autistic traits were significantly associated with each variable"

"these preliminary findings highlight a potential warning sign for poorer aging and health outcomes"

Yes. Not that it matters to me really.

I don’t know if I look younger than I am. 

I haven’t seem any evidence showing that autistic people look younger than non autistic people, and I tend to look for evidence before I jump to conclusions.

If there was a study that demonstrated autistic people are perceived to be younger than non autistic people, I would guess the reason would be that some autistic people use fewer facial expressions or are more likely to avoid strong sunshine, resulting in fewer wrinkles.

No!!!!

I dye my greying hair, dark brown to try to look younger, but it only helps a bit.

Like many women I spent my youth trying to look like Aphrodite, wishing for the body of a Goddess, now I have one at this late age, the body of one of those fat lady Venus figures, lol. 

I've always been told I look much younger than I am, and I've also been told I sound younger on the phone too. I did read somewhere that this appears to be more common in autistic people, but I don't know if any proper studies have been done to prove it.

People often say I look younger than I am, when I was younger they said I looked older. I don't know how old I look, I don't know how a 63 year old should look?

I do think though as you age, your inner self becomes more apparent on the outside, a life time of bitterness, spite and jealousy will show in the face, in the lines, theres a difference between smile and laughter lines and the lines of a scrunched up face, they're subtle, but there

I'll be 46; in less than a fornight, from now.

Face of a 30 year-old, and the torso of a 55 year-old.

I look about forty but am more than 10 years older. 

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.

Deleted User said:

Made my day.

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

I'm skeptical of the proposition that most autistic people look younger than their chronological age.

In any case, I used to look younger than my age (as far as my self-perception goes). Nowadays I think I look about right for how old I am. For some reason I can't remember other people's take on that at the moment, however.

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.