autistic reference in this song?

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"Advice for the Young at heart" by Tears for Fears

Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work ?

Too many people living in a secret world
While they play mothers and fathers
We play little boys and girls
When we gonna make it work ?
I could be happy
I could be quite naive
It's only me and my shadows
Happy in our make believe
Soon...

And with the hounds at bay
I'll call your bluff
Cos it would be okay
To walk on tiptoes everyday

And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
Cos to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands

Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work ?

Love is promise
Love is a souvenir
Once given
Never forgotten, never let it disappear
This could be our last chance
When we gonna make it work ?
Working hour is over

And how it makes me weep
Cos someone sent my soul to sleep

And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
Cos to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands

Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work ?

Working hour is over
We can do anyhting that we want
Anything that we feel like doing
Advice...


I've always enjoyed this song just because of it's smooth, musical sound, but never really paid attention to the lyrics until recently. To me, it sounds like describing the trials of growing up autistic

While I agree that many songs by tears for fears seem to have an "aspie" ring to the them, this could just be first love(I could be wrong). Or rather, continuing to love like its the first time. When you have your first love, you're like a child, naive and gitty. But you hate working on it, so you let it fall apart. You get selfish in your pleasure, what you enjoy about it. Its the having a girlfriend and not the companionship That first break up "sets your soul asleep". He realizes that you have to work on love to keep it going, not just stay gitty and naive.

Then again(like I said earlier), I could be totally pulling this out of thin air. Just my perception...