Feel age awkward?

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I feel the same way. I'm usually comfortable with adults or young children, but I don't understand people my age.

I consider myself both mature and childish, at times.
But I want to be older.

It's fair to say that I'm superior to my peers in terms of thought (and general intelligence), but I have the same irrational urges to do childish things. For instance, I have to stop myself buying plastic animals despite that I really want to. It would be seen as weird.

Tony Attwood said that Aspies age 3 years behind socially. I still feel like I'm 10.

On the bright side, I 'm not afraid to fool around.

One doesn't really outgrow this.

I'm 48. I went to a school reunion and felt most comfortable with my classmates' just-left-school children. And it's not like I'm one of those broody women who wants to actually breed children or goes coo-coo about babies, it's just that those kids seem to be interested in much nicer things than their parents are.

And my best friend is 66.

My aspie friends range from 21 to over 50. They all like doing fun things which most ordinary adults wouldn't want to do, and it is relaxing to hang out with them. We have a regular aspie friendship group and I'm gonna start arranging events where younger aspies can come too.

I would say I'm younger, by about 2-4 years, mentally (as in attitude, not intellect), socially, and physically and always have been. However, I've always been very mature, well behaved, and responsible in my actions for my age. Thinking about it, I believe feeling younger while acting older caused me quite a few problems growing up and still gives me problems now. I definitely feel like I should still be in high school (I'm about to start my 3rd year of college). My birth certificate says I'm twenty, but I don't look or feel twenty, so why does everyone keep expecting me to think like I'm twenty!?...Sorry, personal pet peeve here. I just wish that mental/physical/social/numerical age (and all other uncontrollable traits) didn't come with a set of this-is-how-you're-supposed-to-be's that can cause you a lot of problems if you don't or can't fit the mold exactly.

I always feel better talking to adults or to people slightly younger than me. They seem to take me more seriously.