Youth is too short

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My peers got far ahead in life (work, socialising, relationships etc) and i feel like i fell behind.

I was depressed since my childhood and wasted many young years. Now i'm 26 years old.

In some aspects i still feel like a kid.

Idk how i lived 26 years and still couldnt make some progress

Youth is wasted on the young.

Because you're autistic. That's why you haven't met the same NT milestones. Mystery solved.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I'm almost 60 and there are so many things that still are hard for me. The difference I suppose is that it's no longer expected of me to "make something of myself" which is a significant relief. Maybe the way for you to feel better about it is to try to take the pressure off yourself. Instead of focusing on what you think you should have accomplished or comparing yourself to others, you can try to just be you. It's not like our difficulties can magically go away, whether we want them to or not. It's likely that you did what you could, and that's all any of us can do.

It is easier now for us to do things at our own pace.
It wasn't all that long ago when women got married at a young age and didn't remarry unless widowed.
These days women get married later in life all the time.

Same thing with jobs. Many people change jobs these days.

I'm 24. Turning 25 this year. My childhood was a mixed bag. Frankly I think everyone feels like three kids in a trench coat sometimes. We're all just making it up as we go along.

I hope you're not too hard on yourself. We're all living by different timelines. Different circumstances. I get where you are coming from though, I often have a crisis about this.

I'm 49 and there are lots of things that are hard to be.