Do you consider yourself immature for your age?

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I want to elaborate on my first post:

When I was in my teens, I associated primarily with adults. When I became an adult, I associated primarily with people in their late 20s-30s-40s. When I got into my 20s, I stopped really caring about other people's ages, and now in my early 40s, it seems like most of my friends range from 18 to early 30s, with a few older exceptions.

I think I may have felt more mature than my age in my teens, but in retrospect, I think I just had an easier time relating to adults. I recall some pretty immature moments.

Nowadays, people tell me they think I'm in my mid-late 20s or early 30s based on how I interact online. This may be immaturity (which I'm okay with) or it may be that I'm imitating my friends, who are mostly in their mid-late 20s. Or both.

When I was in my 40's I felt like I was finally an adult, but since then I've been regressing. Hitting self-awarded "adulthood" somehow gave me the right to be my childish self, openly and without apology. The really scary part is that soon enough all the members of my immediate family will have passed on and I'll be alone in the world as an elderly child without protection.

Quite interesting question. As for myself, I look younger than the 19 years I am. But I do act more mature than other 19 year olds, I think. My problem is that I don't feel like I'm at anyone's age. I very often look at other youths as puerile and when I see someone that actually looks older than me (even those who are not usually do), I feel that they actually are way older than me. Nobody feels like being at "my age".

Oh, and I watch both Spongebob and Pokemon as mentioned here. But I don't think that makes me immature.

Mentally, I feel more mature than my 30 year old sister.

Emotionally, I'm still stuck at around 14 to 15.

I'm almost 16 and I feel like my mind is about 10.

I'm 22 but feel like a teeanger most of the time. As well, some of the girls on the spectrum that I have mentored tend to be very naive and have immature special interests. One girl I previously mentored liked kids movies and tv shows (she was 15-18 when I supported her). One girl I currently support doesn't know much about the world/general knowledge because she hyperfocuses on her interests, and she likes Winnie the Pooh, Sharon Lois and Bram, The Big Comfy Couch, Barney, etc. as well as a lot of children's music. It gets awkward when she starts singing a sharon lois and bram song in the bar! (and yes, this has actually happened) One of my biggest challenges when supporting her is directing her onto age appropriate interests.

It is a mix for me. In many ways I feel more mature. However, when it comes to life skills and issues dealing with executive function, I'm much like a child.

I feel like both more mature and less mature than other people my age. In some aspects I'm very mature and find my peers very immature in comparison, and in other aspects I feel less mature than them.

I'm very mature about things like work, studies, finance, major life decisions, priorities, being there for people at difficult times, dealing with various serious life events etc. Most people who meet me or talk to me in non-social settings assume that I'm older than I really am, and I've gotten very far at many things compared to my peers.

On the other hand, I'd say I'm less mature than my peers in an emotional and social sense. I also have a lot of interests and obsessions that most people find childish or immature. I love playing with toys, watching cartoons, collecting/playing/sleeping with plush animals etc.

Very immature.

My wife tells me all the time that I'm just like a small kid! I like it!

Considering 99% of people my age are immature, no.

Generally I do not feel immature, in fact I feel quite mature usually seeing as my compatriots are quite immature. However, I find myself feeling immature when sexual topics are being discussed as I have always previously blocked my ears subtly whenever such topics have been discussed as I am oblivious to most sexual references that are so commonly used my males of my age.

I feel like I'm 25.

No, I am frequently told that I am much more mature than my age.

When I was little people said I acted like an old man all the time.