AS and delayed physical maturity...

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I do look young for my age.

I probably look around a year or so older than I am.

"I don't know, but I physically matured one heck of a lot faster than anyone in my classes. I was 5'8, 165 in 6th grade and 6'2 200 in 8th grade. Right now I look 40 years old when I am 20."

Yea, kind of 'accelerated' in college (now),... I went from looking too young to too old. I'm only 20 and I have a half white beard (when I don't trim it, or shave it). I also have white hairs scattered throughout my head hair. Stress I guess... sucks either way

I think I look my age at the moment.. but some people say I look 18 (younger) and others say I look older.

I believe people who are young on the inside will always look young on the outside.

I don't think that I will age terribly quickly.

No, what is your point of no return?

I don't know. I havent developed any different then the other girls. I think. except my body seems to have stayed the same for a really long time...

How old are you though?

fourteen.

I've got that too. People seem to think I'm 25-30 (I'm actually 21), probably because of my heavy features, thick-set muscular build, sideburns etc, though I also have very young-looking skin. To further confuse people, I've got a fair bit of grey in my beard/chin stubble. I tried googling for asperger's and longevity, but turned up nothing. It would be interesting if there was a link.

Do not worry. You probably look perfectly normal for your age.

same here. Under all that body hair my skin looks very youthful.

The skin on my hand has been damaged by archery and soap.

Well I still get nasty acne, so I guess thats sort of a sign of not aging...

Oh well. That is life for you.

(reminder, I'm 20) heh, while I do look older due to white hairs sprinkled throughout, my face is still plagued by acne - this may have something simple to do with one side of the family with oily skin who wont produce wrinkles into at least their 50s (naturally, for farmers w/ hard lives...) and another side with super sensitive skin..... add these two and you get an evil brew that annoys me enough that I don't shave to conseal it and cosequently seem older with my semi white beard.

so, it may seem acne isn't an indicator one way or the other. In my estimation aspies may be prone to more stress than normal if they are 'picked on' early on, have tough families, or carry a sense of shame due to perfectionism. I believe these to be some of the contributing factors in my case.

Hmm, not shaving can actually make it worse, as hair makes the skin more oily. I have noticed it gets a lot worse when I don't shave for a while.

But yeah, I'm too lazy to shave much either.

Anyway I better shut up before I turn this into a personal hygiene thread.