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Autism and Age

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Do the 'symptoms' /'traits' of autism increase  and are more noticable with age?  Would that be less masking in a more familiar space. Could it be one or the other or both?

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  • I have become progressively less concerned with what people think of me, especially strangers, as I have grown older. I am much more comfortable in my skin than I was when younger. I think both developments have allowed me to be more me in public, which, as I am autistic, inevitably means that I am probably more outwardly autistic in my behaviour, at least some of the time. My autistic traits have not become more pronounced, they were always there, but if I'm on a walk and want to spin a walking stick around like Charlie Chaplin I will now do so (making sure I do not hit anyone!).

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  • I have become progressively less concerned with what people think of me, especially strangers, as I have grown older. I am much more comfortable in my skin than I was when younger. I think both developments have allowed me to be more me in public, which, as I am autistic, inevitably means that I am probably more outwardly autistic in my behaviour, at least some of the time. My autistic traits have not become more pronounced, they were always there, but if I'm on a walk and want to spin a walking stick around like Charlie Chaplin I will now do so (making sure I do not hit anyone!).

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