Feel age awkward?

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I have noticed how sometimes I can act much older than the people my age- never seen the massive peer presure issue or got the stupid insults they call humor- an sometimes I can be much younger-like making up imaginary siblings, having special interests for little kids and wanting a soft-bodied doll when I was ill in hospital.
Do others feel this awkwardness? How do you deal with being a kid and an adult at the same time?

I'm the opposite, I guess. My mental age must be like a teen or young adult because I still play video games and don't partake in adult stuff (wife & kids, mortgage, social outings, etc).

I've always been really mature for my age. Had adult conversations sense I was 5, don't really even consider my peers the same species, we're so different.

I also feel younger and act younger than I really am-I still feel like a teenager most of the time.

I feel quite a bit older. My peers have an inexplicable sense of humor, and most of them seem to be ignorant buffoons.

I feel both older and younger at the same time. I don't get how all my peers talk about are the opposite gender, and make a point of always talking about what they did with them to everyone and feeling proud, and just finding a need to harass anyone who doesn't join in with their laughter. But I feel very young, too. I lack common sense in every form and so have almost no independence from my parents yet, but they spend no time with their parents and go out all the time, and will be very street-wise as such. It's like I'm not even the same species of them.. they're focused on getting along with everyone by making jokes, and are independent, and yet I prefer to learn about knowledge, yet I am dependent on my parents. So in their eyes I must really look weird. Getting good grades yet am socially useless. I'm just more evolved I like to think.. or from and alternate universe. Something along those lines.

I think mentally I'm older and younger than my friends, but socially I'm just plain younger. They all have boyfriends and stuff, and are totally capable of carrying on conversations while I'm unable to do the same. On the other hand, sometimes I can look at their problems from a third-person's POV and capable of providing them sound, logical, adult advice even when I have never experienced the problems they present before me. This includes any issues related to dating.

And even though I may give them pretty good advice, they don't always listen. I told one of my former friends to stop trying to date freshmen last year, mostly because the majority of them were like three years younger than her, but also because she had a tendency to take things a little too fast. She didn't listen to me and ended up getting in trouble because of it.

I fee so similar, OP.
Especially ever since about age 9- I definitely started to notice being different/more mature than other kids.
It was really bad at age 13/14, that's when I started only befriending people age 18+ because they were the only ones I could get
along with well. And now at my current age, 17, it's still really awkward. I still prefer older people, minus a couple of exceptions.

But then there is a certain part of me that still feels like I'm 8 years old, for instance I'm really attracted to things for younger kids.
And I almost feel like my childhood went by way too fast because of how quickly I matured/started to become reclusive, and now sometimes
I just want to go outside and play with blocks/bubbles/chalk and other little kid things. I hate it.

Yeah, I'm with you on feeling age awkward. I'm always being told that I have an "old soul" (whatever the heck that means) and that I act extremely mature and calm, despite the fact that I am the youngest one of the group of friends that I sometimes hang out with. I just don't see the point of acting loud and drunk, especially if I can have a fine time, otherwise. At the same time, I still dress like I'm in high-school, eat like an 8 year-old and occasionally have melt-downs when things go wrong. It's a bit of a paradox.

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Being slighty awkward about my age is one thing I can defiently agree to on a daily bases, at the moment ever since I started back into school after my long year and a half's emotional break from education I have just recently felt myself behave more and more in quite a mature manner, no idea why I seem to act like this but I guess things like this do seem to occure from time to time, there are some days on which I act very imature, childish and dumbfounded whilst other days I just feel a little bit more self aware and (how should I put this...) in-telligent...? One problem I seem to be having issues with at the moment is when I'm socialising and interacting with both my friends and other teens my age. To others when they come up to there little tricks and games they may seem funny and cool but to me I just see them as childish and imature, which I feel is highly abnormal! I mean, come on Dan! I'm 14 not 40, i'm in secondary school not college or university! What is wrong with me I do not know but yes, it is just messed in many ways, I can not describe how I feel about this.

God help this mentally confused child.

Lets just say I find myself to be much more able to hold better conversations with adults than to other teens my age.

I generally act more mature than other people my age, like I listen to the Beatles instead of that One Direction thing everyone 'fangirls' about. But I act younger when necessary (and it's really helpful that I look younger, too).

I don’t consider myself awkward, just more practical and far more sensible than other kids my age. I don't indulge in petty things. Which is probably why I don't get along with any of them and am considered an outcast.