When does Adolescence end for us?

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Plenty of adults learn new skills. Just keep your brain active and you'll retain a good deal of that neuroplasticity.

It's not that adults can't learn new skills - its that your brain is continuing to develop until you are 25. Developmentally, you aren't actually finished growing until then. So the neuroplasticity is higher when you're under 25.

Until you are 25 your frontal lobe isn't fully developed.

I hope it never ends for me. I want to stay young and strong forever.

When you have a child.

I feel like my adolescence is still going on. Not surprising; aspies' emotional age is 2/3 of their physical age, and I'm 30. A lot of my friends, all close to me in age, are talking about setting down, buying houses, getting married, and having kids, and those friends are guys. I, on the other hand, want no part for it for at least another 10 years, or most likely, never. After all, it was only very recently that I actually learned how to meet and date, and also learned to appreciate the concept. I spent of most of my childhood and adolescence being alone and bullied. So now that I'm an adult chronologically, I feel like I got a lot of catching up to do. I managed to do some of it via cruises: in a 1-week cruise I took, I did more partying there than I did in all 4 years of university.

Don't get me wrong; there are things about adulthood that are just plain priceless! For example, saying something intelligent and having people take you seriously, as opposed to laughing in your face when you're a child, and dismissing you as a know-it-all when you're a teenager. But settling down and the rest of the stuff my friends are thrilled about, out of the question!

man this belief that adults can't learn skills is just a bit rich. my dad learned to speak english well after the age of 35. and i hope by 'aspies' you mean 'all autistics'. adolescence ends at the same age for autistics as it does for NTs. it's just different, because NT and autistic brains are different.

that's like asking the difference in tanning between people of different colors. you're not going to end up in the same place as an NT in terms of 'development' because you're not starting from the same place. just my $.02

I'm an old geezer now, but if I had the time and money, I'd look into becoming a good chef. I have a fascination with cooking but it's just out of my league right now.

i'm an old geezer now, but if I were 30 years younger [but with my present noodle] i'd look into going to music school. ach, scratch that, I still would require musical talent, having perfect pitch isn't good enough.

I'm 44. Still waiting for that transition.

My learning is lifelong.

But your brain doesn't just ossify when you hit 25, and constantly learning new skills is a way to retain a lot of plasticity.

Anyone can learn something at any age if they put their mind to it. You don't just learn everything you need to know as a child then stop learning at age 18 then be unable to learn anything else throughout the rest of your life. Even for NTs, life is full of opportunity.

Physically I ended puberty at 17. I don't know about emotionally. I do have ''teenage tantrums'', like sulking and slamming off up to my room. I have been told that I'm behaving like a sulky 13-year-old.

It ended for me during my MID LIFE CRISIS. Yep executive functions are worse. In fact, I am more asperger than ever! Sorry just enjoy your youth it doesn't get any better later, except you know yourself more and are able to manage things since now it takes longer to recover.

If you mean in physical way, until about 25 the body is producing more or equal cells as he is loosing in normal way. While until 25 the cell renewing ratio is changing and you are reproducing old cells slower and slower, so you are physically getting "old". As well as major brain changing, that you endure during puberty, normally is done by that age.

But that doesnt mean that your brain isnt able any longer to create new connections or to store new memory. So you can learn new languages or instruments with 40 as well. From my experiences your physical reflexes become a bit more lame, and you are getting tired more easily the older you get, but thats not the end of the world, you simply have to plan some nappies from now and then. ^^ Just as a bit more lame, doesnt mean really lame, so I still can play every computer game I like, I simply recognize that in earlier times, I sometimes was a bit faster from now and then.

When it comes to mind I agree on that, so I still have very kiddie/teenager needs and likings. The physical age sadly slowly catches up, so when you are visiting metalconcerts and jump and bang around for 2 hours, afterwards your neck and knee joints slowly will start to tell you stuff about your physical age. ^^

And instead of going on Saturday evening on concert, drinking tons of beer, going home in the morning, deciding that sleeping now isnt worth it anymore because of new day starting already, playing videogames for some hours, and visiting afterwards your parents to eat with them Sunday lunch, it becomes more of...

Going on Sunday evening to concert, drinking moderate amounts of beer to prevent horrible headaches, leaving latest at 2:00 in the morning, because of your eyes closing, anyway how much caffeine you had, waking up at 14:00 afternoon, still feeling a bit lazy and dizzy, calling your parents, that you are sorry to have missed Lunch and that you will visit them tomorrow evening. ^^

The mentioned worsening of executive function during a midlife crisis. A midlife crisis normally is an sort of depression, and while an depression you are normally overly exhausted/tired/overwhelmed. Its totally normal, that during such a period, your executive functions will be sh***y, just like an teenagers executive function will be worse, when being exhausted/depressed. So you do get the need of a bit more "rest times", but as long as you allow your brain to get the rest and relax times it needed, it should be capable to deliver you comparable results.

Umm... thank you?