feeling childish

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I act childish quite a bit. Even in public, I act younger than my age, although I'm not sure if staring up at ceiling fans and AC vents counts as acting childish. I still squabble with my sister, and I still flip out when Dad tells me to slow down on my eating, and I flap my hands and make noises when my parents tell me to drink less of this or eat healthier, or whenever I'm made to do something I don't want to do. I also just got a component stereo that holds 400 CDs, and I tend to brag about it a lot. So, yeah, I guess you could say that I act childish at times.

Yeah I do too don't know much about the adult world. I still doing things as a kid.

I feel childish sometimes. I was really feeling like a child at my sister's Shower, last Sunday. I was sitting around, obsessing about my Diecast Routies. All of the sudden, I see all of my sister's friends with their hair done-up, their make-up on and Boobs pointing through their fitted tops. That's when it had occured to me, that even though my IQ is above Average by thirteen points, maybe I might be just a little Immature for my age.

What does that make you think you're acting like yourself?

I can be mature if need be, in terms of being trusted by my parents not to do anything wrong when being left home alone, and I can have very deep and serious conversations - usually about spirituality, or problems in life that have solutions. And I don't giggle childishly when the issues of sex or reproductive organs come up.

There are however, some issues that I just feel incapable of handling, for example I have a friend who is depressed and self-harms a lot, and for a long time I was one of three or four people in whom she confided - the others were adults, ie our parents' generation adults. And I didn't feel I was mature enough to be able to help her carry the burden. Also for example, things like going to Auschwitz. Another friend went there and she said it is impossible for people who go, not to feel that something in their life has changed because of it, and she said that everbody should go. However just seeing documentaries of things like that affect me a lot, and I'm terrified of what going to Auschwitz or a similar place would do to me - I don't think I could handle it. So for those kinds of things, I feel I'm not very mature.


As for behaviour - I generally act like a child when with my small group of schoolfriends, because that's how we have fun. We go to the park and play on the swings, we tickle each other, we hide each others' possessions, and that's just how it is. But then we can all also be serious when need be, which is good. It seems a healthy balance to me.

I paid you a complement in another prior thread I posted. Did you get it?

No, it was actually Lottie who I paid a complement to. I said that someone who keeps their cool online seems like my kind of person, and she said just that.

I wonder if this is the start of something big.

I often feel the urge to get a little childish at times. Often I may feel the urge to run for no good reason at all like a 2 year old. A bit odd for someone that has just turned 53. I guess this is a bit of Peter Pan in many of us; even NTs.

Paul

I think its normal for everyone to act a bit childish.. after all most of the time when people are having fun its because they are talking about or doing something that would normally be considered immature

When I was in grade school through college I was often annoyed by my peers immaturity....giggling girls and practical jokers,fart jokes and people throwing beer bootles in the street or other vandalism,lack of intellectual curiosity and superficial interests....All these things still iritate me(beyond reason....REALLY irritate me)but I am very immature(in societys eyes) because I collect stuffed animals,love toys that "do" something,still like the humor in old school"punk" music,I dress like a slob and still would rather dumpsterdive then go to the mall...I dont want a job I have to wear a "suit" for and have no interest in getting married, having kids or a morgage...I like to keep my life as "simple" as possible....So...I dont know if I am Immature....just have different priorities...As the Punk song says...."I dont want to grow up....if growing up means being like you, it's something that I'll never do"

IMHO anyone NTs or otherwise who buys a high performance sports car like this new
Koenigsegg CCX (clicky here!) in places where there are ridiculous low speed limit laws are a bit childish. They will never find a place where they can get in into overdrive. So it is nothing more than an expensive toy.

But wow! what a toy!!

Paul

Yes, it was you.

I think we have a common trait that we possess. That is why I think it could be the start of something big.

In many ways, despite being 20 in less than a month, I fell like I haven’t really become an adult yet. So for me being treated like a child is sort of a relief. However there is a difference between being treated like you’re still sort of a kid, and being condescended to.