AS in teens vs. AS in adults

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I think teens with AS are less severe than adults with the disability even though they're younger. It's because they were able to get help with social skills. However, they also do better than children with AS.

Such an observation cannot accurately be made at this time due to the fact that they only started officially diagnosing people with Asperger's in 1994, so adults who are diagnosed today are more likely to be particularly severe simply because the less severe ones are less likely to bother getting diagnosed.

I've found AS doesn't need to bother social skills or ostracize them. Special interests I've struggled with but with socialization logic walks through, that's why all my friends turn to me for friendship or relationship advice, I see the basic logic no matter what the situation.

Anxiety and depression tend to become much worse in adulthood with asperger's. However, other adults are much easier to deal with than teens are. This is my experience anyway... People my age and older usually find me kind of interesting eventhough I'm really quiet. When I was a teen, my peers just ignored me.