Rules for different age groups

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Only 27,5 cm

Never could act my age, never will.

This thread reminds me of a cartoon I have somewhere. It's of a boy talking to his dog, and the caption is
"Mum told me to act my age. When I did, she told me to grow up!"

I was always confused by being told to "act my age". When I asked for clarification "How is someone my age meant to act?", I got called "a smartarse" and worse.

Nice to see I'm not the only one -_-

Anyway, on a side note: I have a theory, that teenagers act the most grown-up of all.
There's a time when you watch cartoons and all that stuff cause you're a kid. Then you're a teenager and both you and your piers want you to act as un-childish as possible, so you shun any reminder of your childhood like crazy. Then you grow up and you might start watching old kids movies or the like again, this time for the sake of "fond memories", or whatever.

I remember when I was a teenager, I asked a friend if she read Harry Potter, and she looked at me weirdly and said "No!" as if saying "Why would I be so silly to do something so childish?". But once I got to high school, a few years later, my piers all read Harry Potter with joy, and I think you would have been considered weird if you'd babbled something about it being childish.
There was a time when I was like 16 and I played on my gameboy during school breaks. This was "weird" and "childish" behavior. But you know, I suspect that if I were to do this again now, in university, at the age of 23, no one would consider me to be childish for it, they'd be perfectly cool with it.

So, it's like there's an age where you're old enough to be childish. (or is it only that, the higher the education, the more childish someone is?) At any rate, I'll be using this argument in the future.

I never grew up, cood not "conform",
threw tantrums when terrorised,
it didnt "teach me", kept throwing
tantrums got suspended then kicked
out of "regular" school and put in spesh ed
and got along better.

My mother has always gotten mad at me on how I've acted. She has said and still says sometimes for me to stopping acting like I'm five. I wish that both parents would tell me what they expected from my behaviour as it would perhaps have avoided the usual mentions of ''you are embarrassing me'' and ''stop acting like you are five/two'' (it varies).

I used to get punished, now she just tells me that I'm embarrassing but what does she expect? How am I supposed to act my age when I don't know how?

Yet I'll never belong to my peer group nor can I belong to when life was simpiler. It's enough to feel lost.

So, anyway..instead of being depressed about it, how about we compile a list for the Aspies after us, about how to act at which age?
I mean, when you're older you usually understand what mom was upset about 5 years ago or so, right? Even if you didn't get it at the time.
So, anyone up for making a list together?

What annoys me is - when I was 15, my 12 year old cousin once came over and wanted to go off and build a den in the woods by a river. So I asked my Mum if we could, and she said, ''wouldn't you feel embarrassed?'' so I sighed and said, ''all right - we won't then. Why do I have to be too old for everything?''

But now (I'm 20) I see 16 year olds flying around on scooters. It seems ''OK'' now. My Mum just looked at them and said, ''they're nice scooters'' - but if I was 16, she would have said, ''you're too old for scooters. You'll look silly.''

Why wasn't I allowed to be a kid when I was a younger teen, but now younger teens are allowed to be kids?

I have been alive for 41 years, I still don't get
What Law in the us or Any Country for that matter
says that I am "too big" to do this or too big for that,
I just don't see it, what is so wrong about going outside
on my own property and colouring with my chalk on our
own part of the pavement? There is no rule against it
it isn't defacing, no city ordanince or anything.

Same with playing on the swings, back in California, Officer Chris
just waves says "Hi Tigger" and goes on so he's nice, regular non police
tried to act like they owned me, saying
bossing me around stuff like "Your too big to be playing
on swings" and I would say "Ok how about I play in the street?"
they shaked their heads and walked off, or they'd
say "Why don't you have a girlfrend?" and I'd say
because she does not exist or there isn't anyone out
there for me they'd say "go get her" and I'd grab into
the air and when she did not appear I said "Ok guess she
cant make it to the party" and go back swinging and
they do the head shakey walk off thing, hehehehe. Got rid of them.

Bit off topic, maybe.

I hate the word Acting. Or Act.

Shouldn't you be Behaving your own Age.

Behaving and Act are two different things.