Changes in Aspergers People

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Can people develop things related to Aspergers late in life? Can they develop sensory issues, being slow, having bad anxiety & more things late in life?

I don't know about sensory issues but i developed anxiety and tics in my 20s. I also used to have great concentration but now can't even concentrate enough to read short stories. I probably have adhd or something similar.

It is possible that as one gets older, there is less spare energy available for the things we do to compensate for the difficulties in an aspie profile. Resilience also drops off, so recovery from a lot of social or sensory overload takes longer than it used to take.

I second what Rowan Nicole said.

But also some things can go away or change and leave you appearing less autistic. So some people have to self advocate more because others assume they are neurotypical or that certain things aren’t stressful.

I developed sensory issues in my 40s. I started having more anxiety & hyperventilating last year, I always had social skills problems, it started in elementary school, Cerebral Pasly also have a social skill issues too. Back then when I was a child & a teenager, I did not have Aspergers symptoms.

You cannot develop Asperger's or any type of Autism late in life. One of the absolute diagnostic criteria to be able to get a diagnosis of any form of Autism/Asperger's is that you have to prove that the traits and symptoms were there from early childhood, like toddler age or younger. Now there are many things that can cause sensory sensitivities. You can have or develop sensory sensitivities and not have an Autism Spectrum Disorder. So you can develop sensory issues later in life, but it won't be because of an ASD. But you can also have an ASD and not have sensory issues even though that is more rare. So it is possible that you have ASD already and that your sensory issues developed as you got older. But ASD is something that you have to have had since birth or at least proved to have had in early childhood so no, you cannot develop it or catch it as an adult or older child. There are other conditions that you can develop as you are older that may have similar traits as ASD but they will not be ASD.