Does anyone still do Childish behaviors/Watch Cartoons?

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Up until recently, I felt very confortable enjoying the magic of childhood like doing Easter Egg hunts and watching Peter Cottontail even at AGE 19, like the video below.
This past Christmas (a few moths ago), I still wrote a letter to Santa, wait for his reindeer and get excited for the big day of Christmas Day. I even watched the 1964 Rudolph 50th Anniversary edition.
Even though it is weird for a 19 year old to watch cartoons and wait for Santa, for some reason believing in the spirit of Christmas and doing that type of stuff actually gave me a lighter nicer heart.
I also used to do the pinatas with the kids in the birthday parties until recently. In the birthday party I went to a few weeks ago, I grew up and chose not to do pinata parties because it got a little wierd. This Easter, I am planning to break out of the babyish cycle for Easter and not do that stuff. To my PDD mind, it will sound very hard. But I choose to finally grow up because I am 20 now. I thought the habit of watching babyish cartoons at the age of 20 will be common in people with moderate to low functioning autism and considerate developmental/intellectual disabilities because they seem to like that stuff. But my own experience of still doing babyish stuff disproves it. Anyone with High Functioning Autism or Aspergers that still does childish babyish stuff like me? If so, Why?

All the time. I sleep with stuffed animals, hate the dark, color, watch baby shows (Sofia, chuggington etc), and I'm extremely clingy towards my parents still. I also do have massive tantrums sometimes as well. However, I've grown out of Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy (this is only because I have no teeth. XD) or whatever.

I am still very child-like though. My emotions are very childish as well, and my phobias too. I have a huge phobia for dentists, hospitals and needles. I meltdown much easier than most people with autism do, usually when things don't go as I planned for them to.

However, for the 7 years, the times I do the childish behaviors is during the holidays of Easter and Christmas, though there might be very low, limited and isolated times I had interests in Childish stuff. But any other time of the year, my interests are at youngest that of a tween/teenager. However, when I was 11, I remebered watching Ready Set Learn, which is designed for preschoolers. I had obsession with that and their shows like Peep until I was 12. During these same ages however, was a good price, I had obsessive knowledge in dinosaurs, Need for Speed, Fast and Furious, cars, and sailing (the interest obsession i still have today). When I was 16, I watched an anime made for kids called Ojamajo Doremi, but for only several months.
Right after that point on, I started to have full fledged interests in What it's like to be a teenager. I exactly knew what I was missing out in life. So for exactly the past nearly 4 years, with the exceptions of Easter and Christmas (see my first post above), I was growing up in age apporpiate interets entirely and still growing up on that today. And as my age appropiate interets grew over time so as tendency to watch Childish toons died away.
However, during the teens I did steer more to age appropiate interets but some of the childish interests and behavior was involuntary because my mom gave me gifts of "Space Chimpanzees" instead of something like the "Jonas Brothers" for my 8th grade graduation gift. She also gave me "Planet 51" for my 18th birthday instead of a Maroon 5 CD. That made me really embarassed. Plus, my mom encouraged me to watch the "Peter Cottontail" cartoon as explained in my post above, during Easter. However, I proubably did less childish stuff in my teenage years than many people with an autism spectrum disorder.
So hopefully this year, I would resist the urge to fall under Mom's preassure to watch Easter Cartoons in addition to not doing any childish behavior or interests from now on. Thankfully I watched "Hannah Montana", "Ranma 1/2", "Sailor Moon", "Soul Eater", and "Suite Life on Deck" as a teenager just like an NT teenager would and I still do today. I have played age appropiate games like "Wild Arms" and "Final Fantasy". In additon, I would also want to watch adult movies more nowadays, the most favorite I would want to watch Jessica Alba's "Into the Blue". So now I am emotionally more grown up than what I thought I would. Do you still have any age apporpiate adult interetsts, Loki of Sassgard?

If we didn't have adults who love "childish" things... who would draw the cartoons? Who would have invented Calvin and Hobbes? Pixar? STAR TREK?

I think the only reason to stop doing those things is if you find them truly distracting or harmful. But I will never. It's not just a phase.

I have MANY Neurotypical friends who decorate their houses with "Christmas" lights, Santas, and trees yearround. YEAR. ROUND. Many reasons, too. No one judges or if they do, my friends are like,

Whateeeeeeevzzzzz.

I'm 30, by the way. I pay my bills. I own a house. I have a college degree. Asperger's. And I indulge in "childish" joys.

I have read many studies and books about Asperger's and the mind. One, recently, in Scientific American Mind, about how something called "brain atrophy" that happens naturally to our minds as we get older. This is what makes us lose interest in things. It's OK if you do, but something about autistic minds (like our faces) stays young in certain aspects.

It's deeper than that, but basically I think we're like human 2.0. So don't feel bad. Just enjoy your youth!

I enjoy cartoons. Sometimes for the silly fun-ness of them, and sometimes for the characterizations, clever plot twists, and layered story lines.

I don't care for cartoons but I like to color. I really like to color fuzzy posters with markers. When I get on a coloring kick I'll buy tons of them and do it for hours in my spare time Of course I throw them out afterwards so it's a waste of money but I don't really consider it much of a waste, it's entertainment.

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I still like watching children's movies and cartoons, a few years ago before the video shop closed down I hired videos of Fred Flintstone and H.R. Puffnstuf, I still get a laugh out of their antics. I also still like to read children's books.

There plenty of NTs who watch cartoons as well. I watch cartoon network, Nickelodean etc...

I still enjoy similar children's programmes and cartoons as I did when I was a child. When I first had children myself over 20 years ago it was great that I had a reason to collect Disney videos and anything relating to Scooby Doo, I created the impression they were for the children but really they were for me

Now I don't care what people think. I'm not ashamed I sometimes watch Peter Rabbit and other programmes aimed at children, so what? Why should I stop watching the the things I enjoy just because I'm expected to grow out of those things Well I never did!

I do! The random antics and the comedic illogical stuffs makes me laugh harder than I realized. But in fairytales, it gives me few hints of creativity...

I would want to watch cartoons. I barely watch anything for now. Only random stuffs on the internet. Especially the illegal cables in the entire city got cut off yet I don't mind.


And 'childish behaviors'... If you mean childish activities like spinning chairs, playing with soap water, poking random stuffs, chasing cats, and so forth? Sure, except destructive ones of course. Most of it are stimulating/distracting.

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I watch cartoons, play video games, don't sleep with all the lights out, LOVE to listen to my grandmother stories, hate the smell/taste of alcoholic drinks and love to collect some toys/miniatures.
Although these may be considered childish behavior by some people (for me they aren't) I don't feel ashamed or embarassed for any of them.

Sure I do. There's nothing wrong with being "young at heart". My MIL (NT) is 68 and would only watch kids' movies. And some people are just playful instead of serious. As long as you act responsibly and don't expect others to clean up after you, it's OK to have as much fun as you want.

I still enjoy acting very childish and I like watching SpongeBob and dinosaurs and I'm gonna be old enough to vote and drive in 2 months and 19 days lol

Sometimes. I had to work on Christmas day, which I didn't mind. But I was supposed to finish at 2.30, and I was patiently looking forward to getting home so I could open my presents, but the supervisor was expecting me to stay longer and clean up, which nobody said I had to do that until the last minute. That caused distress for me, being so I was suddenly told that I had to stay behind, also I've been waiting for 2.30 to come all day. I showed I was a bit frustrated, which just made the supervisor angry with me, and she hasn't spoken to me since.

That's the last time I'm working on Christmas day.

Hmmm, will, I was born in 1963 so that makes me 51 at the moment, and I started watching anime (Naruto at the moment), so I guess so.

I sometimes watch kids cartoons and I behave like a 6 year old most of the time