Childish behaviour, is any one else dealing with this?

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I'm actually in college doing an Interactive Media course (I was doing a 1 year level 2 course but now I'm on level 3 now doing a 2 year course) which teaches me more in depth about game design, coding, website development, digital art, 3D modelling, animation etc.

My 'dream job' is to make apps on the App Store for young children and Autistic people so that they can learn, play and communicate. I know what apps young children and autistic people like as... I'm both of those things. I'm thinking I could use this knowledge to help other people.

I'm also very good at English and absolutely love writing stories and I would love to incorporate my awesome story skills in apps. Maybe like making interactive story apps.

That's only 10% of my Hot Wheels collection! I also collect these awesome detailed trucks that you can get from Hamleys and Harrods but I've forgot the name of the company that makes them.



I go to college too and take my toys with me all the time. I don't think it's an anxiety relief for me... I think I just enjoy carrying massive amounts of toys. When I went to secondary school, the bad thing about taking toys with me was that the children would always take them off me and throw them around, hide them, break them for no other reason except for that it belonged to me.



Mum is very half hearted when enforcing her opinion that I'm too old for toys. I don't know if I've made her sound like an awful woman or not because she really isn't. I don't think she'd really take my toys away. My mum was happy for me to play with toys and watch cartoons, it's when I started college that she brought up the fact that she believes I'm too old.

Hi Coda,

I'm glad you seem to be doing better now. Enjoy your toys, and don't let anyone deter you.

Tell us when you get your first Ap sold.

Hey Coda,

I think what your mother is afraid of is that you'd get seen as 'strange,' but in actuality there are tons of people still have toys and even often play with them, even as 'adults.' The Transformers fandom (and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one also) is known for this, many members accumulating hundreds of toys and play sets, and just losing themselves in their enjoyment. These two things were often derided as being too 'kiddish' before they became popular.

Plus the only adult things you have to do is pay taxes and bills (and maybe have a job if living on your own) but the rest is pretty much up to you. I still like to play, but I don't really have a private yard to do it in (I like to run and climb and explore, plus build things) and the apartment neighbors will tend to ask odd questions.

My parents tell me "You should be looking for college, not absorbed in your computer or Legos!"

This is an interesting topic. I've come to think personally that some aspies seem to mentally and emotionally age a bit differently than an average NT person would. I've certainly noticed this with myself as well. I am early into my 30s myself,and its hard to actually place the overall age of my behaviors, interests and emotions. I haven't played with toys since I was about 11 years old, though I do actually think a few of them on the market now are pretty neat. I do like to watch some slightly more childish cartoon stuff though, I still listen to a small number of childrens songs once in a while, and often I just tend to act odd or silly or a little to hyper. My winter hat has ears and eyes on it because I quite frankly think its pretty cute. However at the same time I watch documentaries, listen to rock music, drive, shop for groceries perfectly well, cook, file income tax, converse intelligently with people my age, etc. There have been many days I've gone from saying to someone that something is not fair to me and I want what I want and should get to do it, likely the way a slightly younger adult would, to discussing topics with the same people, in a way that might almost seem older.

Assigning most things to very specific age groups often eludes me. I have actually often described myself to others as both mature and immature, a child and an adult at once. In some ways I know I will never grow up completely and I actually don't see why people think that's so sad. In other ways though obviously I will keep up as anyone else would. I have said before that I think I'll make a strange but pretty interesting and funny old lady someday.

I'm 37 and I still love to colour in my colouring books

Reading this thread is making me feel like going to look for my colouring books & pencils. It's too late tonight but I think tomorrow I'll go down (they're in the basement where most of my books are) and look for them. I still get alot of enjoyment out of sharpening my pencil crayons & smelling the freshly cut points of the wood, I love the smell of pencils. I'd stay home from school when I was sick & stay in bed & colour all day (or at least till I got a blister on my middle finger ) Even now I find colouring very relaxing.

I am already a strange but pretty interesting and funny old lady.

I'm 30.
My friends keep getting married and having kids.

And here's me going "What I really want is to complete my Pokedex."

I don't consider myself immature for having atypical interests for my age, though. There's much more to maturity than what activities you enjoy.

When I reached 13yrs my parent made me get rid of most of my toys except a few. I was heartbroken, I just didn't understand. When I reached 18yrs and was asked what I was going to do with my life after I spent 6 months after graduation depressed. I didn't have an answer, I could not understand why I had to be an adult when I wasn't inside. I wanted to play with the animals and watch Loony Tunes. I got a job but lost it. Then I was sent to a group home to learn how to care for myself. I now have toys and if anyone thinks I'm immature I don't care.

I enjoy my fair share of "trash TV" but I cannot tolerate five minutes of Honey Boo-Boo, and I know it's wrong to feel such distaste for a child I don't even know.

I remember my mother being embarrassed by the following:
- My having a Hello Kitty check book.
- Getting a Hello Kitty debit card.
- Having a Hello Kitty-themed water dispenser that was a gift from a friend.
(I like Hello Kitty).
- Wearing t-shirts with cartoon-like drawings on them, to include ninjas, pandas, and Dr. Seuss characters until I was around 21. I didn't see how this was embarrassing.
- Wearing purple and blue eyeliner.

Anyway, things I do now that my friends poke fun at:
- Having an old Gameboy Advance model and playing Pokemon Red, Blue, Gold, and Silver. I don't play any Pokemon Games past the ones released in 2000 (Gold and Silver).
- Watching shows on Animal Planet like "So Cute."
- Watching live webcam streams of puppies. Yeah, just puppies.
- I do like to watch cartoons like "Hey Arnold" and I like certain Disney movies but I think a lot of people dabble in that kind of nostalgia. Somehow Pokemon is kind of taboo.

I'm going to be 40 in a couple of months and I have my fair share of toys around my apartment. I also bought a whole bunch of craft supplies this weekend because this thread got me into the mood for crafts.

I think most autistics have that "interior child" complex. I'm trying to find a way to keep that part of me happy. I have some tactile issues and I will most likely invest in a weighted blanket and have a few stuffed animals or something. Maybe if I get a good enough job, I can take up a hobby that lets me be a big child for a little bit? I'm not sure if I'd want that or if I do, how to do that.

I play Pokémon and I've watched that show "Too Cute" before. I'm graduating a year early with my BS in math and within two days of move-in I had the puppies and kittens on and my new roommate tartly grabbed the remote before almost hissing at me, "This show is so stupid! What are you, slow? What's wrong with you?" I then said nothing, got up, and went to my room and found the stream on Animal Planet.

She then switched on some show called Fashion Police or something to that effect. Needless to say, I think my new roommate is an butthole. And I do play the newer Pokémon games.

You do you, Coda (Love Brother Bear, by the way). As long as you're doing your best when you work if you can work, and pay your bills, it doesn't matter if you make a bedroom into a ball pit.

There is nothing wrong with crafts. It has actually helped me build patience and relieve anxiety better.

At 46, I still run up stairs 2 at a time, and prefer to sit on the floor cross-legged for hours to sitting in a chair. Getting up is the only problem!

I know a 20-year-old female who is amused by brightly-coloured toys and also acts like a toddler and needs to be watched like a toddler when they are out. She's not Autistic, but has Down's Syndrome.

I admit I grew out of playing with toys when I was about 13, and just used to sometimes get some toys out in my room and play with them a few times when I was 14, then grew out of playing with toys all together when I was 15.

But I love teddy bears. Each morning I love to make sure my teddies on my bed are comfortable, and sometimes I miss my favourite bear when I'm out. But I cannot admit that to anybody because I am 24. But I feel more comfortable discussing that on WP.