Does your autism make it hard to relate to your generation?

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I used to be like you when I was a teenager. I did have a few friends my age but found that I had better conversations with their parents than I did with my friends.
But nowadays I seem to enjoy younger friends because people my age are usually at a stage in life I simply do not understand.

Yes, absolutely. I look at myself and then I look at others in my generation and age group and I just don't seem to understand or get them

I do have a hard time relating to my generation, but I think it has more to do with how I was raised and the fact that I'm technically "between" generations. My birthdate can fall under Millennial or Gen Z depending on where you look and I don't relate all that well to either of them. There are some things I can relate to with other people that are also near that divide but, unfortunately, there's too much I just can't relate to with anybody anywhere in either generation and I'm fairly certain it's mostly because of how much time I spent with my great grandparents, and to some extent my parents, when I was very young. When my parents were at work my siblings and I were at my great grandparent's house. I didn't spend much time with other kids my own age. None even lived nearby enough to try to spend time with. So my formative years were spent mostly absorbing the culture (is this the right word?) of my great grandparent's and my parent's generations rather than my own generations'. For the most part the shows and films I watched, the music I listened to, the books I read, the mannerisms and language I observed, were theirs rather than my peers'. And that created a pretty big chasm between me and other kids my own age from very early on. I'm sure my autism contributed to that chasm as well, but not as much as my lack of exposure to the interests and trends of my own generations.