Immaturity

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Does anyone here feel younger or even still like a child?

As a child about age 10 to 13 I was very mature. Much more mature than other kids in that age. But then, about 15, I started to feel like a child. During my whole late teens I felt much younger, had younger friends and actually wanted to be a little kid again. I feared adulthood. My entrance to adulthood was very difficult. In my early 20s I still felt like a child or at least a teen. I didn´t want to get older.

After 25 I got used to my adulthood. Since then I don´t care how old I am. But I´m still pretty immature.

bits and pieces of me are still a bit immature, such as playing video games alot, or stuff like that (which isn't that bad I suppose), but I mostly feel the opposite.

I'm middle-aged but I say I am merely 'chronologically mature'. I don't feel like I fit this aging body. I still very much feel a child.

I am much more mature than Neurotypicals of my age. Their immaturity often frustrates me.

My younger sister of twelve years whom is a low-functioning Autistic seems to be very confused about her age right now. She continually repeats activities from her early childhood and constantly worries about growing up.

As I've said elsewhere, things like eating sweets and playing video games are NOT signs of immaturity. These are merely bizarre, meaningless rules that are inflicted upon society by the the media and... well, society itself. I believe that maturity should not be defined by a person's hobbies or preferences, but by a person's sense of logic and morality.

I'm very very immature and still think, act and feel like a child........

Very immature. I hate having to be an adult. I don't act like one and not sure if I ever will.

Yeah, I'm still in the kid phase. I have these odd momemts. Like when I'm out shopping for food. There was this woman with her kid that was blocking the way and she was like move out of.the man's way. That really felt wierd. 28 on the outside 15 on the inside. Like that movie with tom hanks.

Very well said, I wholeheartedly agree.

In a lot of ways I'm stuck at 13 and I have a very poor sense of my own age. Often I will see people that are much younger than me and it 'feels' like they are the same age old older than me. At some point I realize how I'm seeing people and I have to stop and think it through logically because my brain is telling me something other than the facts.

I feel like I am teenager. I don't understand how to be an 27 years old woman. And what will be in the future? =((

I feel fairly childlike but I tend to keep it to myself a lot due to the fact that I don't have many friends to talk to. The only ones I do have are either busy or just live a far bit away. but regardless I am still a child at heart and don't really see myself changing anytime soon.

my parents were told that my emotional development would never exceed that of a childs.
emotions are not very well understood by me, and i have few to no emotions.
i simply react in a clinical way to the reality that presents it's self to me, and i feel nothing except for intermittent impatience with the process.

In some ways I'm more immature than my peers, in other ways I'm more mature than my peers. I have learnt how to handle money responsibly a long time ago, and can have will power not to spend my money on things I don't want or need, and I save up and just be sensible with my money, where as others around my age often go out and spend then end up skint and borrowing off their parents (that's what most of my adult cousins do anyway, and they're all NTs in their late teens/early 20s).

I do know some NTs who are immature though, that do immature things what Aspies would look down upon. I have a cousin who is so immature that he ruined the vacation for other people who went with him, and it wasn't through drinking either, also he's nearly 28 but acts like a 12-year-old a lot of the time. Also he dates 15 or 16-year-old girls because he can't hold a steady relationship with girls his own age (see, NTs aren't all they're cracked up to be).

In lots of ways I'm very mature (possibly even more mature than other 20-year-olds) but I'm still immature in others....I still like stuffed animals and toys, I still like cartoons, I'm really sensitive, and I still don't drive.

I think the use of the term mature/maturity is problematic for us because we have a pervasive developmental irregularity, and are therefore slower to develop in many ways. We are also never going to "grow out of" being on the spectrum.

I also displayed older than my age maturity as a child, but I look at it as just my way of developing. I fell off that train quickly when it came to dating and friendships sometime in junior high, though.

I notice that my naivete pisses off NTs sometimes. They will tell me to my face I'm too old to think such and such or believe whatever point we're discussing like I'm a silly child. I realize this has to do with maturity, but I also think that it is a purely NT way of looking at the world, so eff 'em. I don't notice NTs admitting they are immature when treating me or others badly, as in the latter example, so eff 'em again. In fact, my life is riddled with moments when NTs acted immaturely and I just sat there and took it until I figured out later that they were being immature jerks.

Now that I think about it, this emphasis on ASDs being immature really insults my intelligence. Hello NTs...we develop differently, so stuff it! If they change their terminology, I would be more inclined to consider their view because I am not being immature in the way they mean it: I have simply developed differently, and perhaps not on their time line.

When I was about 15-16 I had friends who were 12-13 years old. As a teenager, I always understood with younger kids better than my peers. When I was 15, I would even take some 9 or 10-year-olds as peers, not as much younger kids. I know, it´s weird.

Does it mean mentally challenged?

Anyone else who was like this or similar?