(Males) does/did your body grow slower than NT's

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Like I'm almost 16 but my biceps look like a 7th grader's.


It would also fit the Aspie "nerd" stereotype.

Are you the same?

Have you ever tried working out?

That is how you get muscle, I was skinny and weak until I did wrestling one year. I am still skinny, but working out is the way to get stronger, puberty didn't have anything to do with it.

Oh yeah...I was 14, 5' tall and weighed 80 lbs...definitely in the bottom 5% of students in Grade 9. The bullying was merciless, it's a wonder I didn't come out suffering from PTSD!! !

Now, I'm 5'11 and weigh almost 200 lbs, and have worked out regularly since my 20s. (helped with some female attention too; but lots of trial & error before things happened!!) My growth spurt started when I was about 15 or 16, later than most who began at about 13...I guess it didn't help that for many years, I avoided the lunch room b/c of the anxiety it caused me, and just ate a piece of bread, crackers, or apple on the fly while walking around in the halls or outside - but when the opportunity came to eating at a restaurant with my folks, I went to town and devoured several plates.

Luckily, the anxiety that came with ASD never compelled me to eat less

I always looked younger than my age. In my kindergarden pictures I looked like a toddler.

I still look much younger, but at 37 that is very cool. I could easily pass for 20 to 25.

Aspies are usually not very physically active because of coordination problems, and/or lack of interest, so it's understandable why so many of them would be small or skinny. They exercise their brains but not their bodies.

How much are you working out(time wise) Are you eating extra? I am assuming you are skinny for most of what I am saying. Besides wrestling it was hard for me to gain weight. A year after it I added 1000 calories to my diet (2 protien bars and half a gallon of milk added) and after 3 months I gained 10 lbs. Probably not the best plan, milk is the only food that has been shown to be bad for acne, and all most all people are a little lactose intolerant. I also was working out for at least an hour a day about 6/7 days of the week. I did not use free weights because I did not feel comfortable using them. I mainly used the machines. If you are mainly concerned with looking strong then the quickest way is to work your shoulders and pecs.

If you are going to a gym then try to do 5 reps of 8. where you struggle a little to finish the last one a little. More than 8 is endurance, less is strength and strength is the muscle you can see. 8 is a good mix of that.

I'm tiny. Age 15, I weigh between 80 and 95 pounds depending on what part of the year it is, I'm only slightly less than average height though, and my arms are REALLY thin. Not sure why this is though, I eat a lot. And I'm physically very weak.

Well, my Aspie friendcrush has always been really tall. He's 6' 6" now.

I was always average height, I'm actually growing again and eating a lot more food and gaining some weight. My arms look smaller and I look skinny to some people, but that's mostly my metabolism doing that work. I'm actually at a healthy weight, I just look skinny.

Well I have poor muscle tone but I grew taller faster than others did.

i dont really have much muscle tone either, but i am quite tall (about 6'6), however, that didn't start untill about my 4th year in high school (16 years of age), i always was in the shortest 10% of the class, then in 2 months over summer, i shot up to be the tallest by far, and stayed that way.

however, if you look at me, i look not strong at all, perhaps not even strong enough to lift my own weight (aka, stand up straight), however, i appear to have above normal control over my muscles, making me stronger then some of my friends that work out daily.

for example, those who work out need to be with 2 people to carry a keg from one place to another, i stack then 2-high on my own.
it seems that i am able to use a much higher portion of my inert strength then most others, making me stronger with less muscle mass (same with lung-contents, i breath almost double what is normal or even 'possible' for my size)

Is there a relation between. Aspergers and height development because I'm 6'2,still growing.

Can anyone look i into this.