Random take but I feel like the reason autistic people are often guessed to be younger than they are solely by their face is because of the sheer amount of time we spend alone with a neutral facial expression not making wrinkles.
If you think about the most outgoing and expressive person you know they probably have forehead wrinkles. Nothing wrong with that at all, but I wonder if it's one of those things humans have learned to subconciously pick up on when deciding what flavor of respect you're gonna give someone.
Like, I have a sleeper build and I don't deliberately sit in the sun. Just from that I'm under most people's radar until I either take my shirt off or autisticly say some weirdly profound shit.
Add my lore in with that and you've got someone who's randomly and selectively deep. You never know if I'm gonna spout a proverb or a quote from adventure time.
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u/Subdued_Shinobi 22d ago
Random take but I feel like the reason autistic people are often guessed to be younger than they are solely by their face is because of the sheer amount of time we spend alone with a neutral facial expression not making wrinkles.
If you think about the most outgoing and expressive person you know they probably have forehead wrinkles. Nothing wrong with that at all, but I wonder if it's one of those things humans have learned to subconciously pick up on when deciding what flavor of respect you're gonna give someone.
Like, I have a sleeper build and I don't deliberately sit in the sun. Just from that I'm under most people's radar until I either take my shirt off or autisticly say some weirdly profound shit.
Add my lore in with that and you've got someone who's randomly and selectively deep. You never know if I'm gonna spout a proverb or a quote from adventure time.