As a kid/teenager were you keen on doing adult things?

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I think at one point I looked forward to growing up simply so that I would be taller. The joke was on me because I stopped growing at 13.
I have no problem with my height now. It probably had more to do with feeling annoyed that store employees behind a counter, never noticed I was waiting to ask a question.

As previous posters have said, my biggest reason to want to reach adulthood, was out of a desire for freedom. Also, I started noticing that adults seemed to get more time to themselves. That had a lot of appeal.

For me i would say it was a little of both eagerness and fear of becoming a adult.i
Remember when i was five of six i was thinking about becoming a adult and i started crying because i would have to give up my toys. When was in the fourth grade i used to watch boy meets world in which the characters were teenagers and i couldnt wait to start high school.i remember the summer before high school . It seems like aspergers started to affect me for the first time in high school.i had trouble socializing and was often picked on . If i had the chance to live any part of my life again it would probably be high school. The few friends i made in high school use to have drinking parties but i never went. I use to look forward to learning how to drive in high school but i never learned how.

I couldn't wait to be able to drink and vote when I was younger. But I also feared the pressures and responsibilities that came with becoming an adult.

I vaguely "knew" that being an adult would come with pressures of some sort. But ready access to alcohol outweighed everything else. To this day, I still don't know how I knew about all the good sides of alcohol as a kid. After all, my family was quite anti-drinking, and I never saw anyone having a good time being drink until I was well into my teen years

I can identify with alot of the things other posters have said. I use to go with my mom to drop my uncles off at a party or the bar . I remember thinking "man i can't wait tell im old enough to do that."
There something magical and exciting about being out late at night when your a kid or young adult.there are trade offs for every age.once you actually get to adult hood life can get somewhat tedious at times. I don't get as excited about things
Now that im a adult the way i did as a kid.you also have alot of soul crusing stress responsiblity and boring routines you go thru as a adult.many adults are prescibed anti depressants. I think a increasing number of middle aged men are comitting suicide.

One of favorite songs from musical - I don't want to grow up - from Peter Pan.
Flash Forward to my Ex getting mr a book - wait for it
The Peter Pan Syndrome - about men...some of you are way ahead of me. ..or time for an explanation

I always hung around older kids when I could. I always wanted to grow up and get out on my own. I left home at 17 and never returned. Well, I visit and have a good relationship with the family. And, I seem to be one of the few people I know who does not want to 'go back in time and do it all again.'

But, during that time, I've always found myself in a position of not truly being independent in some way or another.

It's weird. I stayed in bad relationships because I could not 'make it on my own' for long periods of time. It's like I striven for independence, but always was not up to snuff.

Maybe that's why this business with the wife leaving is so bad. I've decided to do things differently. Took me 55 years, but, I finally have to figure how to do this on my own. No wives, no significant others. Just me.

I still see magic in being out late at night, and I'm 32. Nothing excites me more than heading downtown, partying in a salsa club until late, then catching the last train out. (The only thing that changed is that "late" is now 1:00 AM, rather than 4:00 AM like it was when I was 24.) It's always funny to see drunk people milling about the train station, waiting for their train to pull into the platform, since most of them are peaceful, albeit just a little loud. In fact, "life getting tedious" is my biggest fear right now. It's the main reason I absolutely refuse to ever enter into a long-term relationship. LTR's are the epitome of boredom to me, despite being a very "adult" thing to do.

I hated and resisted every change along the way. I hated wearing a bra (nightmare for someone who only liked loose clothing and certain textures), hated driving a car...

Even now if someone else is willing to drive me I take them up on it and pay for their gas. If I'm driving I'm frequently rubbing the texture of the seatbelt on my cheek to stay calm.

The only thing I looked forward to was having a job and having my own money.

Changes freak me out whether they're good or bad. So having my own body changing and responsibilities changing was bad. When I was in elementary school my mom had this little book she bought that she was supposed to write about every school year in and one of the only things written in it was "{My name} panics and cries any time our routine changes in the slightest."

So no, no matter how bad school was I never wanted to grow up.

I remember being excited to grow up, then I came the harrowing realisation that I am not equipped with the crucial skills to survive adulthood - I came to this realisation when I was 12/13, when performing basic tasks became increasingly difficult. Over the years it has got progressively worse...

Plus I didn't really cherish childhood until I turned 13... From that moment I wanted to turn back the hands of time. Plus the change in responsibilities was always abrupt - my mother had the habit of randomly introducing new responsibilities every single year. The fact that she assumed that if I was certain age, I would automatically be able to do things on my own was not helpful.