Do you have the personality of an child or an adult?

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I'm definitely child-like. My mom says she likes that about me, though. She says that I haven't lost my childhood like most teens have.

Adult, but childlike. A couple of my co-workers and I talked about it one evening when I was pulling a week of late shifts. They were both women in their early 20 and they were commenting on how I wasn't like most people they knew who were in their 40s. They finally decided that I wasn't "jaded" like the other 40somethings they knew, which meant that I gave off a more youthful vibe.

I figure I have the social development of someone in their early 20s.

I believe I have the mind and maturity of a child, probably about 12 or so. I have been told that my personality is childlike and not of a man my age.

^^^this post + your avatar = me lol

Adult kernel covered with childish surface. Yaay.
I'm something like this stereotypical wise, innocent adult-child ^^" Adult when i need too, and childish when i want to.

I'm some of both. I have a lot of child in me; it's difficult for me to be responsible and mature when I need to be - which sucks since I'm in my late 40s!

A mixture. I'm 38 but I can behave like a 9 year old sometimes.

What if it doesn't divide evenly? We can have someone who is 17 years old and will therefore have a social developmental age of 11.6666666666...7. And that's too vague of a number lol

In my case, my personality is somewhat childish and somewhat adult. I'm hyperactive, find silly things to be hilarious, and act too immature for my age (14.5). On the other hand, I am far too serious (in the case of work) and have decided things that most people my age don't have the mental maturity to do (religion, sexuality, etc).

Adult, even when I was a child. I usually feel about 70 emotionally.

Adult, though I'm both ten and forty because I prefer intelligent stimuli I am usually more Adult.
I get along better with those much older, I understand those much older. When I was six my best friend was in their sixties and she was the only one that understood me, everyone else though I was too young to think the way I did.

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What is interesting with me: when I was four each and every conclusion and delusion I had then I have now…sure, I may place “bigger” and “better” words into my thoughts but the thoughts say the same damn things...my education level is no different; I learnt nothing at school.

I guess I was an "advanced" four year old.

In some aspects you'd be considered an intelligent four year old adult?

I don't know...I've never sought a label for something I don't think anyone can comprehend. It makes perfect sense to me but does it to you, i.e., are you the exact same person now as you were then, mentally? I’m emotionally the same too….

I never spoke with a voice or a pen…so no one knew who I was, at no fault of their own.

Mostly yes. My horizons, my goals and idea's have expanded as I've learned more but I do think quite the same way as I did before I've just gained experience and learned more. I think this applies to everyone in one way or another but not to the extent of what you are speaking. I am naturally someone who builds a system of things, your typical INTJ and so I built my world and my understanding when I was young of course, while information has come and gone and my "system" has changed here and there when seen feasible I do what works or what I deem best applicable.

Emotionally, I'm not sure if I've dematured or matured. If you look at it in the perspective that how I deal with the little knowledge of emotions I have now is more mature than back than, I've matured. If you look at it from the perspective of how much I understand and share my emotions, I've dematured.

When it came to labels, I guess I was a victim to some extent. Not to fit in with the world but to fit myself in to my world. Of course because everything is internalized. I didn't seek order for the world I sought order for myself and my understanding.

I'm good at seeing things from multiple standpoints, even if I don't connect I can usually understand or learn it well enough. This was the main thing that bothered me when I found out that I was AS, I introverted the idea that I was socially "unacceptable" and "awkward" as a sign that I just found everyone too stupid and didn't want to communicate anyhow but when it came does to it, it was something I couldn't compute, I couldn't learn or apply. I had so much difficulties not matter what research I did or what data I gathered on how to react I couldn't duplicate it. The idea that I couldn't learn something I wanted to learn blew me away because generally if I want to learn something I will learn it. Its never been an inability to grasp something, its always been simply I did not want to until now.

I need to think about this some more; I’ll try and see what the “social worker” thinks when I see her tomorrow. My goals, wants and desires are no different, how I view things, listen to things and interact with things is no different; I’ve learnt nothing that’s tangible to me after my first memory…sitting there watching A New Hope, wishing for a “repeat” button on the VHS player…now, I’m just reiterating and repeating things I’ve read in books, none of it feels mine due to my mind categorizing it into perfect and neat little packages ordered to authors’ names.

I know it but I don't see it as mine; all that is mine is what I knew before I knew nothing...which is exactly what I know now.

I'm just babbling....

Usually, I would say my interests are more in line with someone older than my chronological age of 42. However, I can become a child every time I see my cats.