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How do you feel according to your age?
Younger than your current age 74%  74%  [ 52 ]
Your current age 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
Older than your current age 21%  21%  [ 15 ]
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02 Dec 2010, 9:25 pm

I feel 14 years younger. I'm almost 25.


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02 Dec 2010, 9:26 pm

I'm 15 and I feel more like I am about 24 usually, but in some ways I feel like I am 10. I listen to music adults tend to listen, I don't do a lot of things that teenagers like to.



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03 Dec 2010, 12:30 am

I'm almost 23, look 17-18, feel 13.

For a girl who developed [physically] faster than her peers, that combo can be annoying...



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03 Dec 2010, 12:34 am

Both.

I'm pretty young for my age and I do behave immaturely but on the other hand, I spend a lot of time online so I am more informed than the average person.



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03 Dec 2010, 12:59 am

I am 22.
Emotionally, I feel like I am about 12, and at times even younger.
At the doctor's office the other day, a nurse told me that she thought I was 14, so physically I look much younger than I am.
However, in terms of actual physical health and mental stress level, I feel like I have been alive for decades longer than I really have.

I think it is interesting how many of us feel more mature than our peers when we are in our teens, but then in our 20s and 30s we feel younger or less mature. This is how it was for me-when I was in middle school, many of my classmates seemed very immature, and I preferred to converse with the teachers. However, now I feel like I am being left behind by my friends/acquaintances, because they are "growing up" but I am not.



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03 Dec 2010, 10:13 am

menintights wrote:
I don't "feel" younger exactly, it's just when I see myself in my head it's always the preteen version of me. This is the default image for me that sometimes when I talk to a fellow grown-up (especially one dressed in a business suit) I forget that I'm an equal rather than someone who doesn't know better. That's why it's always awkward when we stand up and I find out that I have to look down rather than look up.
This is how I feel. I forget that I'm older than people in shops for example but they call me sir or Mister.