the evolution of Aspergers

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When we excuze our behaviours, we say because of Aspergers.
But when we grow older, do we quit to have Aspergers? (no?)
I am wondering about the change of Asperger from when we are born until we become older.
How does it look like?

Aspergers is a reason for behavior.

Not an 'excuse' for anything.

How does it 'look' when you get older?

It looks different in different individuals at every age. It morphs differently in different individuals as they age.

I don't excuse my behavior. I am who I am. Yes, I think and react the particular way I do because of my Autism, but while that may be 'different' than the social norm, I refuse to see it as 'bad.'



LOL, no, we absolutely do NOT cease to have AS when we get older. You learn to deal with your alternate neural wiring better and develop coping mechanisms that help us make up or cover for the abilities we're deficient in, but the handicaps never disappear. Autism is not something one "grows out of."



I can't say what it looks like, because I only see it from inside my own head, but I don't know that I essentially see the world much differently than I ever did. I'm certainly jaded and cynical from a lifetime of being sidelined, ignored or verbally and psychologically abused because I couldn't function at the levels others expected of me.

My personal feeling is that the social parts of our brains, already stunted from early childhood, stop developing entirely somewhere in the teens and the executive functions follow by the early twenties, while the rest of the brain develops normally. At least that's been my experience, your mileage may vary.

Any questions regarding emotional development would have to take into account the experiences, frustrations, failures, rejections and feelings of inadequacy caused by our impaired social function. Constant sensory and anxiety overload is bound to create a less than stable internal emotional ecosystem.