Do you feel your age?

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Sometimes older, sometimes younger.

I can remember being three, and even though I couldn't speak, I can remember feeling like I had been here for a very long time and was conected to the world. I enjoyed talking to older people when I was in school. I didn't feel older, but was often mistaken for a teacher and asked to buy beer for others. In college, I felt so disconnected and confused, and thought if this is what it feels like to be 21, getting any older will be horrible.

Later as my life got better I felt younger than ever (I guess the feeling, is mostly about your health and state of mind.) I continued to feel this way all the way to age 46 until stress started to overwhelm me; and my coping mechanisms failed. People often commented you never change; even when I felt like I had less life force than my 94 year old aunt. I think the reason I didn't physically change much was because of indoor work, my obsession with exercise and health, and not much facial expression to gain wrinkles.

I feel and look much younger then my biological age. I think I am emotionally immature, but I am also mature in other ways and always have been. Of course I know a lot more then I did at 16, but I usually am not very comfortable with a person my age, I don't feel "equal", unless they are somewhat like me or understanding / nurturing (in which case I still feel much younger then my age). This feeling I had with older people when I was younger is still there, feeling inferior and inadequate because I was younger (or I thought I felt that way was because I was younger). On the other hand I have always liked much older people, I like listening to them talking about their life, and their wisdom. I get very addicted to online games and eventho, maybe because of my mature sides, I always end up guild leader or officer, I also can get upset like a 10 yr old in some situations (no offense to the 10 yr old people who are mature lol).

I feel younger than I am. I don't feel like an adult. (I'm 28.)

When I was in my teens I remember feeling like I was both older and younger than my age simultaneously; at one point (possibly later), I described it as feeling like I had non-linear age - like my age does not fit on the normal line of progression from 0 up through different ages. To some degree I suppose I still feel that way.

A couple friends once described me as being like "a six-year-old trapped in the body of a 25-year-old [or whatever age I was then] with the mind of a 65-year-old British man". This amused me.

Not really. I usually feel a lot older then my peers (my father has described me as being born with the maturity of a 60-year old.)

I definitely feel younger. In fact, the OP pretty accurately describes me as well (only I'm about a decade older). I think I will always be a nerdy teenager on the inside.

I'm 40 and on my birthday people said "So what does it feel like to be 40?" I thought the question was worded strangely since many of them were older than 40 and they should know the answer to this question. So interpreting it as them asking if there was any unique insight that I myself had about being 40, I simply said that it feels remarkably similar to 39.

Truth is, I feel 16. I think I have for my whole life. I feel like a 16 year old in a body that has much less endurance, but a mind which has learned a great deal of wisdom (for an Aspie) in dealing with other people. I can pass for NT on most days if I want to. Except with my wife. I also noticed that other people are starting to take me more seriously in recent years, as if its some kind of "right of passage" of having to be old to be considered that you know what you're talking about. When I was 24 people rarely took my insight seriously even if I was right. I feel like Tom Hanks' character in the movie "Big".

My hobbies are a lot like a 16 year old's though. Been playing a lot of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 lately but I'm not as good at multiplayer games as my NT friends. Something about anticipating the actions of others I suspect. I have just as much interest in gaming as I did when I was 16 - back when 16 year-olds didn't typically even have a computer.

It's interesting how many people say they still feel 16 -- I'm the same way. In some ways, I'm very responsible, but in many ways I am still carefree and idealistic. My husband says I am not well-suited for the world and need someone to take care of me, which sounds like he thinks I act younger than I am. Part of feeling younger may be the group I hand out with...I'm the old lady of the group. I joke that I am proof there is life after 30. I'm 34; most of my friends are in their mid-to-late 20s. None of them are married, though a few are in LT relationships. Only a few of our friends have kids, and they don't come out to party very much. Most of them can't even commit to a dog, although Einstein (our Corgi) is very popular with just about everyone. Our parties often consist of alchohol and Rock Band, although games like Pandemic, Apples to Apples, and Quelf also make an appearance. (After all, only so many people can play Rock Band at once.) Overall, it's a pretty young, active, fun-oriented group, and I fit right in. I think feeling younger than I am helps (although I have no problem with getting older and never lie about my age). I also look a lot younger than most people my age; sometimes when bouncers see my ID they say things like, "No f*****g way."

I look younger I will be 25 in Feb and customers are always asking me if I am still in high school. I appreciate looking younger and really will when I am older but it irritates me sometimes that I dont look my age. I dont act my age a lot of the time too. At work I do because you kinda have to. At home though I admit I can be childish and even while visiting my parents I can be as well without meaning to. I have been that way all my life. My fiance always wonders at least when I am mad why I act so childish yet he loves how cute I can been when something really makes me happy. My dad once said I act like I am stuck at 12 which hurt and hurt more when I therapist said the same but now I just embrace who I am and how I act. I enjoy being able to just feel like a kid at times. I know I will have to grow up so to speak once I have children of my own but for now I am just trying to live life.

I look young but i talk like an older person though.

Honestly, most people seemingly treat me as if I was some teenager around 19yrs or such.Personally, I'm not 19 though my writiing or improper use of grammar as such more than likely makes me look immature and un-intelligible.
Still, I do my utmost best to understand others including conversation material and all other relevant points of interest..

Yet another poll I can't answer. I feel every age. Or more like, I feel like I felt at every age because my time perception is weird. I don't really know (aside from "how did I feel at a certain age") how to "feel an age" anyway, any more than I know how to "feel female" or "feel male" or "feel in-between" or "feel both" for that matter.

I am 18, but I feel 13-14. I fit in with 13-14 year olds and have similar interests. I act 13-14 and people think I look 13-14.
When I meet new people, I don't tell them my age unless they ask. If they don't ask then I can normally get away with simply being 14. I used to socialize a lot with that age group, but since I have turned 18 this is no longer possible in case people think I'm a paedo. I don't want to be older. Driving, drinking, girls don't interest me and I certainly don't want any added responsibilities at the moment. I'll just have to see where I end up.

Im 22 and I have the social and emotional maturity of a teen yet I dont think I would fit in with other teens if that makes sense. I find myself calling a lot of people in my college "mature".

I'm 18 but I feel like I'm 80. I jumped from the torture of puberty straight into the torture of assisted living. I've been bedridden with migraines for a month with no end in sight.

I am pushing fifty but I have never really grown up.
Like the other day somebody dumped an old tellevision and
some other crap across the road from where I work
and the first thought I had was how cool it would be to ram
one of the forklifts forks through it these are the kind of things
I always think of doing.