Was it easier to talk to adults or children growing up?

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I found it easier to talk to both adults and younger children.

Adults were interested in what I had to say, unlike those my own age. Children were accepting, especially toddlers and truly wanted to be around me, again unlike those my own age.

I would have to say though, that I did talk to adults more often.

Yes, I always felt much more comfortable with adults and younger children.

I found it far easier to communicate with adults as a child, but at my age now I find it easiest to comunicate with younger children.

So maybe a bit of both?

I think the amount of people in different age groups I befriend is about equal- I have as many older friends as same-age friends as younger friends.

Mostly younger, I've had a few older friends(More than a decade) in my late teen years.

When I was younger I enjoyed speaking to older people, for they had such interesting stories

to tell. My mother worked at a senior day care center, and when I and my sister came after

school or when school was out we found it fun to sit and ask older people questions and

delight in their answers. I did try to connect to people my own age , yet there was a bad

connection. As for younger children I prefer to leave them alone , and always have .

I do not even speak to the children at church,and a co-worker has his wife and daughter visit

and I stay away. I am sorry that is the way I am.

When I was younger, I always found it easier to talk to older people, them seemed to be more 'on my level' and had more to offer. Now, I have trouble talking to small children. I just don't know how to relate to them. I feel foolish trying to talk 'child-like' and I usually avoid those situations, if possible. I don't hate children, they just make me uncomfortable. I suppose, I could get used to them, if I were around them more, though.

Adults. I could actually hold up my end of a conversation with a trusted adult. With other children, I had no idea what to say.

Glad you brought this up, I've always struggled communicating with people my age. I was always more comfortable around little children like right now my 2 nieces and nephew and sort of able to understand their little world. I seem to also really communicate good with some of the elderly at my job even those hard at hearing. With peers, I don't know what it is, why I can't pick up with them. I've even had trouble dating. Really kind of sucks because I feel like I'm missing out on something. It would be great to know why there's a problem in this area.

well, I definately confirm what you're saying about people with aspergers. I have always been... almost scared? of small children. I have literally no idea what to do with them. I hate the fact that they won't sit still, hate the noise they make. Although I do consider myself quite immature, I have always felt more on a level with people older than me. For instance, when I first moved to London, my closest friend was the editor of the magazine I worked for, who was in his fifties.

Adults. Never understood my peers, and still don't for the most part.

When I was a kid, I found it much easier to have an intelligent conversation with adults. When I was ten years old, I showed an adult who was much older than I was how a four cycle engine worked. --They really had no idea.

That's interesting.

Eh, I don't know about me though.
I do know that when I was a kid, in order to get away from the children I'd search the company of the adults who were slower, calmer than and not as noisy as kids. They'd leave me alone most of the time, which was why I liked them better. And I did search out adults to play board games with me, because I always played board games that were for older children and my peers didn't grasp the rules... always a nightmare.

I didn't play with children until 3rd grade though, so I'm not sure about voluntarily playing with younger children. There's only one occasion on which I voluntarily played with a girl, who was much younger than me I think. I was already in school, just finished first grade, so I must have been 7? I don't know how old she was, but she was more than a head smaller than me. It was fun and I didn't feel any older than her.

In our house lived a girl and her baby sister too and I had to play them, but I didn't like her and she didn't like me although we had to play together to make out parents happy. And I didn't like her baby sister either, she was... annoying to me, always loud and hectic and messing with my toys.

As a kid I would have conversations with adults throughout my neighborhood. Now I find it easier to talk with kids, especially my nieces who both display traits of asperger's/autism. I suspect one of my nieces is a genius and I'm going to make sure she gets what she needs when she grows up so she can reach her potential.

I always preferred the company of adults. When I was 13, my best friend was 27.

I'm becoming less and less social as I get older, because, while I still prefer socializing with those who are older than I am, I find that the child/adult balance is slipping further and further away, and no matter what the age of the person, I'm now perceived as an adult, and am expected to be on 'their' level.

Even worse than adults is teenagers, though. Yikes!