Well I thought about this a lot. I think that you are right. It took me a long time to reach any sense of maturity. But the question is is maturity a good thing. So many sad young foggies.

I am now set on living my life as I want to. Maybe its a teenage thing.Or thinking young.

No Fear No Limits No Shame. beeen a business man, a lawyer, an accoutant, double graduate. Now am training to be a Psychiatric Workshop Facilitator, teacher, and writer.

Be you its hard but it is only true way to live ones life. Do not be a conformist in a world where conformity is such a sad life of quiet deperation. Passing as normal is not enough and is wrong.

No Harry333,

I do not believe that is true for the most part...

we can but I fell it is harder for us because of many factors..

the issues to do with our AS means we may not understand or develope the same as others so the progression is slower and/or perhaps stops for us..

it can depend on the severity of AS symthoms... diagnosis vs nodiagnosis...

and what traumatic or drastic events of our pasts which shape use as individuals to personality or patterns we exhibit

usualy I'm more mature than my peers but in the relationships and emotional realms I'm more sensitive and my though processes seem more like those of a woman..

based on self obsevance of my responses in emotionally stressed relationship situations..

I hope this helped with your question

Walt

who would want to?

well idk... i am a teenager and i have matured to that stage... but idk about past.

we think my dad is an undiagnosed aspie and frankly he acts just like u describe ur dad... so idk, maybe we dont ever really mature to the point other people do.

how would they know whether or not we mature past teenage years if we usually aren't typical teenagers? some of us are more mature than others in our teenage years, we just mature differently

I've always been far more mature than my age group, which seems to be the opposite of what your dad was like.

DO MEN EVER MATURE ASPIE OR NOT?

Assuming I actually have the traits and deserve the diagnosis, I'd claim that in SOME aspects I matured well ahead of schedule. Intellectually, at least, I've always been way ahead of the game, and it's everyone else, all those neurotypicals, who are intellectually immature. OTOH, emotionally and esp. socially I'm still a bit retarded.

I believe I have aspies and was just thinking the other day that I feel more like a teenager than an adult.

I have a teenage daughter who has aspies and some days you can't tell which one of us is older. I have to act mature sometimes to take care of my child.

Anyway, yah I feel I will always be about 16 years old emotionally.

Ack!

Can we PLEASE not say things like "has aspies"? Asperger's Syndrome is not like crabs... you don't "get aspies" or "have aspies".

Ack!

First of all, as I was reading Jagiello52's comment "Do men ever mature Aspie or
not?" it made me laugh and I spit soda on my keyboard. Then I thought I was safe as the conversation turned more serious and took another drink of soda only to read VulcanTourist's comment that "Asperger's Syndrome is not like crabs"...so again with the soda spitting.

That's it...no more drinking and typing for me. But, wet electronics aside...

I went to a symposium last year on social/emotional development in people diagnosed with AS and HFA. The presenter stated that individuals with AS and HFA are only 2/3 their actual age emotionally speaking.

That certainly seems true for my husband and daughter. I guess you can all do the math for yourselves and decide if that is true of you or not.

akpsych1, it was all a sinister plot on my part. My specialty is repairing things, including keyboards. It was thus my evil entrepreneurial plan to cause a monsoon of coke-spitting, leading to sticky, disordered, low-functioning, non verbal keyboards that would require my l33t skillz to diagnose and medicate and cure.

My nefarious plan didn't work so well, if all I got was one coke-snorter!

lmao!!!!!!
this is far better than the hateful crap that is going on in the other groups!!! thanks for the laugh!!
that was so funny!!!!! lol

I find this topic interesting because I never really thought about my maturity level. To me it's like I can turn it on and turn it off when needed. At many times (especially at work) I will be the mature, professional engineer that I am. However, put me around my close friends and even my own kids and I act like a 13 year old in a 30 year old body. I'm a big kid at heart but I love it! It's part of my personality.

Well Cher was asked why she went out with very young men and she said

I used to go out with older guys because I thought they would be mare mature. Then I realised men do not mature so thought go for the young stuff.

Also Mature can mean BORING TEDIOUS AND DUUULLL. Met so many men in the Law who were young foggies middle age at birth.

Quelle bore.