Do aspies and children typically get along?

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Yeah, at 9/10 is where they overtake us for good, we remain there saying "hey, hello, good luck with adulthood !"

Sadly that was too true in my case.

I don't know about me loving kids, but kids certainly do seem to love me. I have always figured it's because I don't treat them like they're stupid, and I like a lot of the same things kids do. Kids are not so different from adults as we like to think (although that doesn't mean I think they should watch adult tv shows or play adult video games or anything like that...).

Personally, I don't like kids who are really loud or insist on repeatedly saying stupid things. But then again, I also dislike adults who are the same way, and often I feel like there are more adults this way than kids...

I don't get along with children at all.

They don't like me because they feel I'm different.

I get along with children pretty well. Always have.

I remember kids responding to me really well when I worked a summer job teaching children to swim. The age group I was most comfortable working with was 5 thru 9. At that age, they're old enough to understand formal directions, but still young enough not to think they have all the answers. Somehow, I knew how to talk to them on their level without talking down to them. For instance, when I described swimming strokes, I used analogies that I knew kids would understand, such as animals or cartoon characters. (Once, I even got into a short conversation about different sea mammals.) If I thought that a particular stroke was going to be difficult, I'd just tell them that, following by a few words of encouragement. One other thing that kids liked is that I kept parent/teacher communication to a minimum, such as medical conditions I needed to be aware of. (I hated with a passion when my teachers talked to my parents, so I didn't want to inflict the same on kids.) At one point during the summer, the management moved teachers around, and I clearly overheard kids asking if they could stay in my class.

Kids like my sense of humor, I think. I try to demonstrate my most "citizen"-like behavior when I'm around them, just in case I inadvertently affect their development. The pressure! I figure it'll do them good to witness at least one honest-to-goodness freak during their formative years so that they don't start taking themselves too seriously.

I like children. I think it's because children are more straightforward. If they want a biscuit they will say "I want a biscuit!" whereas adults will sit and look at a biscuit and expect me to notice and realise that I'm supposed to offer them one.
I can relax more with them because I don't have to work so hard to read them.

I also really enjoy children, and feel more comfortable around children I just met than adults I just met. Children seem to like me too, and I have the feeling that I can "read" and understand them, in a way that I can´t seem to understand older people. I can take children one on one or in small groups, but huge numbers of children are too much for me, they are just so loud and hard to control. But, generally- I like kids.

Though I haven't been around kids in a long time, I was always good with them & they always liked me. I think it's because I, in so many ways still think like a child. By that I mean, that I still remember what it was like to be that age & how it actually felt to be a child, which most adults don't.

I still collect leaves off the ground during Autumn & just yesterday I picked up a fallen feather & put it in my pocket lol. I'm still fascinated in so many ways by the little things kids adore, that most adults have gotten over.

Of course they do, aspies are just another form of children.

i have no idea.

i rarely encounter children. when i do, it is usually on christmas day when i am demanded to go to the gathering.

i get very bored and leave the gathering and walk around the garden and find somewhere to sit.

i start to study things around where i am sitting, and before long, inquisitive children want to know what i am looking at.

i am not very keen to talk, so i just point out the basics like "ant lion nest" and "ants in danger of entering it". they get absorbed and watch, and their parents always call them back to the party (which is a relief for me). but the children want to come and see what i am looking at, so they become cranky and unsettled.
i hope their parents can provide them with entertainment that occupies them and leaves me free, but it seems that they always want to see what i am looking at.

all the normal adults are sitting in their chairs with their wine glasses in hand and chatting away about things that are impossible for me to fathom. so i go and inspect random stuff out of boredom, but i soon become interested, and that is when children want to also see what i am looking at. and then their parents scold them and tell them to come back to the table. etc etc etc. what a saga. i am glad it only happens rarely.

i hate christmas time.