Late maturity/ period of adapting/ regression

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More specifically have you experienced a stretch of time where you've finally caught up with your age bracket, maybe 5, 10 years or so to have the impairments return? (independently of gathering information online, if possible)

To draw an analogy; if your lifetime was comprised of a 24-hour day, would your time of functioning in the world be the same as the the amount of sunlight that Barrow, Alaska gets in the dead of winter?

Part of it for me is voluntarily letting some learned expectations go - finding social rituals and pursuit of vanity to be pointless, and an element of not really liking all that much of what the world has to offer, besides reaching new levels of disgust with humanity almost daily, but in fact coming to WP and discovering that "hitting the wall" in a lot of areas in life is completely beyond my control was an influencing factor , though I'm not certain if I would have found this out eventually with or without WP

Maybe another way of describing it is like being Icarus; people like us are trying to get off this island prison with wings made of wax, only to end up flying too close to the sun

If the word wrongplanet had any meaning to it. You stated it there. I myself find worldly things to be undesirable. Try to remember, Where different, Where aspies. I know a lot of times we wish we could turn off are aspieness like Superman turning back into Clark Kent so we can fit into the world like everybody else. But unfortunately. That's a luxury we don't have. And even if we do manage to fit in. We find it very uncomfortable or feel deep inside that we are betraying are selves or selling out. Try to look at the bright side of it. Without people like us. The modern world as we know would not exist. We would all be cave men eating raw meat. We are the people who have been chosen to see color in a black and white world and live outside the box. Believe me. You will find your place in this world and the sooner you learn to be yourself, The happier you will be and just being yourself is the most mature thing a aspie can do.. Weird is Wonderful!

If this cheers you up. Check out my Christmas display I did in front of my house in 2012.

http://youtu.be/jKnmPOB2bWY

It's not biggest,
It's not the best and
It's not the fanciest.
It's Just different and for me that's what being an aspie is all about.

<sarcasm> BTW: if you are gonna be "Icarus"? I would suggest you make your wings out of something other then wax or if they have to be wax then paint them silver so they will reflect the sun's infrared rays away. </sarcasm>