Which was better for you, childhood or adolescence?

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This is unrelated to ASD but ASD could play a role. What period of your life was better, childhood (ages 0-11) or adolescence (12-20)? I ask because I feel like my childhood was great, but my adolescence was horrible. I'm wondering how common this is.

I'd say childhood so far. Not that my adolescence has been terrible so far.

ergh

my childhood, i was blissfully unaware of all the troubles in the world, i was obsessed with history and cared for little else, i had no worries, sure i couldn't really make friends and my entire class bullied me all the way through my primary school time but i didn't care, i was just happy being me.

then in my adolescence i became increasingly aware of the worlds problems, my history teacher sucked all the fun out of history and made my brain associate it with hard work and misery so ruined it, i become obsessed with video games instead, lost my 2 only friends, gained one more though (so now i have one friend at least). I suddenly became aware of my difference, so stopped being able to feel like i belonged any where.

so yeah....childhood was best for me, im 19 now and things haven't really gotten any better though

Childhood, though I do not consider teh new "tween " term as a adolescent.

Until I was bout 15 , life was idyllic. Both the environment of economy and the era, and the expectations of me for that age group. Social interaction was still fairly black and white until dating was more prevalent in my peers

Both were generally good for me, but I'll have to say childhood.

Childhood, but my late adolescence was better (18-20).

In childhood, I had a fair amount of friends, whereas as a teenager, I only had a few. I wasn't bullied much in childhood, but I as soon I hit grade 8, I was.

If I had to choose one it would be my adolescence. Although I wouldn't wish to return to either.

Childhood. Puberty hit me like a sack of bricks.


Honestly I actually had a lot more problems as a kid, I was just better at ignoring them.

Definitely childhood. I haven't been very happy since about twelve years old.

Of course, adolescence isn't over for me yet, but I can't see it improving enough to be better than my childhood. I have so many happy memories from back then, while in the past few years I've felt so much stress and fear...

Childhood by a long shot. I was allowed to be who I was, even if I sometimes acted a bit odd, because people believed that was just part of my being an artist. Everyone said I was going to grow up into a famous artist one day because I loved to draw so much. If my anxiety got bad in early grade school I was usually just excused to the hallway where I could have a quiet time.

Then you become a teenager and suddenly you're supposed to give up kid stuff even if you still like it and are still too young for adult stuff, which I thought was stupid and scary. The other teens do not value odd, overweight girls who spend all their time alone, draw cartoons, wear comfortable clothes, don't obsess over their appearance and have no interest in sex or what society thinks. They want you to be a robot, a clone, a zombie just like they are or it's like you have the plague. They quickly learn what pushes your buttons and press them hard. And it's a million times worse than ever now thanks to social media.

No wonder there are so many school shootings and suicides.

That's one of the things I loved about childhood, too. When I was little, people excused my weirdness, but once I became a teenager, people started to make fun of me for it, so I had to change some of my behaviors in order to make and keep friends. >.< Even better, when I was little, I wasn't even aware of my own quirks... so I didn't worry so much about making bad impressions. I was much more comfortable back then.

I preferred childhood. As soon as puberty hit, I started getting sexually driven by hormones, causing me to crave dating and sex with men (not boys my age). I was so obsessive that I got myself into trouble for 'stalking'.

Mine were both very bad, but I think childhood was the better of the two. There's a lot less pressure on you at that age to fit in and have a social life.

Childhood, most definitely. My life started to suck around the time I hit adolescence.

Childhood
Mostly because I didn't need to worry about the future and as long as I got good enough grades (which I usually did) no one had too many expectations in me I couldn't meet. I didn't have friends and in primary school I sometimes got into fights with bullies on a daily basis but I was used to it. I tried to avoid them but it didn't bother me much.
As I grew older the imbalance between how I was and how I was supposed to be grew bigger and it got less easy to ignore that I'd have a hart time becoming an adult and succeeding in things like getting a job. I also started to feel lonely at times as my daydreams and my own thoughts weren't enough any more.