Has anyone ever told you to grow up?

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I get this from my mother all the time. She calls me immature for not wantingto listen to her reality checks or whatever and she is just so negative all he time and I'm on a completely different world. I am positive and full of hope for my future then she's got to come and vei me down. Constantly bringng my dreams and goals down and sometimes goig into a psycho frenzy about it...who is the immature one??

All the time, and it's bull. I just tell them to shut up.

I stick out my tongue at them and say "Nuh-uh, and you can't make me - you're not the boss of me!"

Only sometimes, it turns out they are, and I get fired.

OMG! Welcome to MY WORLD!! !! !! !! ALL THE TIME OMG WOW!! !! !!

Yes I have.


In fact I find it a joke to tell an aspie to grow up because they can't help their emotions and social skills. I only find it necessary to tell an autistic to grow up if they are being bratty or not respecting you, and they are being how lot of aspies don't even act like. There is a member here I have told to grow up because if his hypocrisy and irony and his negative attitude about women and the fact he is a smart ass. There's an example there on when I find it necessary to tell an aspie to grow up.

I pretend to vomit, then I say "Hey you said to 'throw up'"
a play on words that gets them every time.

Or I "blow a razberry" at them and call them
a poopyface bossybossy if they are being mean.

It makes me even more set in concrete about NOT
growing up, and why should I "grow up" or be
growedup if it only means I will be abused?

If I am abused it will cause malfunctions and then
the Bob Normals will put me in the slammer for
stuff that They caused me to do.

A pinch of prevention.

heh...one of the quirks of dating my "boss"...can't get fired...nobody would want my job...

He tells me to grow up all the time....at which point I can get quite rude...

Yeah my mother.

It never occured to her that maybe just maybe a 20 year old behaving like a kid was perhaps her fault? That thought never crossed their mind.

I was so obviously different than the other kids. My parents never did anything and I never got any help. I did not figure out what was up with me until my 30s ffs!

In my experience "grow up" is something people just say to be nasty. It's usually a way of invalidating anything you have to say and belittling you. It doesn't usually mean anything besides that whoever is saying it is mean.

Because I don't watch sports, binge drink alcohol and date rape women I get told that I'm immature and that I need to grow up. Because I am educated, work hard, going back to school and have a house that is paid for and money in the bank I am irresponsible and need to grow up. Can somebody please explain why NT's think that?

I seem to be an exception.. Noones ever told me to grow up.

Yeah, my father says it all the time. Usually just after I've made a valid point in an argument, and he has no response that actually makes sense, so he resorts to insults. It's laughable.

I got it on my school report card once.


'Needs to grow up'............


Pearls of wisdom indeed.

oh, but you must remember, that to be a "mature adult", you must suddenly take an interest in politics and the "pressing issues that have never been more important than they are now", start a really bad smoking or alcohol addiction, and also focus on extramarital affairs...fun....

One thing I've learned is that most people who say this are no more mature than the people they think they're preaching too.

As I once told my friend "it's not that they mature; they're just as immature as they always were...but they express it in different ways"

Nope

Yes, I've been told a number of times to "grow up," but growing up was never a special interest of mine.