Anyone Feel Immature for Their Age?

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At some point I will shift from being rediculously immature to young at heart, but....

Mostly I yam who I yam and that's all that I yam (Popeye) and this maturity thing is one more measuringstick of NTdom. They just need to keep the world going and leave me out of it!! When I am home with a good book, I am just the right level of maturity - and everything else.

absolutely- ive been waiting to mature- but finding out about the Aspbergers- i know it isnt going to happen.

I do. I always feel about 10 years younger. I'm 30, feel like maybe emotionally I'm about 20. I have 2 kids, too.

I struggle with a lot of the household things as well. It's hard to refocus, get going. I just want to cuddle with the kids and watch cartoons or go on Adventures with them. Not the healthiest thing for anyone.

Not mature yet topic

Got a lot of growing to do. Life always tastes better the longer it ages.

I have a comic strip that I had pinned to my cubicle wall for years; the woman in it was telling another that she always felt someone was going to come and arrest her for impersonating an adult.

That's the way I've felt my whole life, and I'm 57 now. Not much has changed in that respect. It isn't that I feel immature or do childish things, it's that I seem to see others as being my elders, not always in age, but in a sort of social respect, I suppose. I've never felt I was taken seriously or deserved the sort of respect to which mature adults are entitled.

I often feel immature. For one thing, I don't do one-night-stands as much as the next guy, have no family, and little interest in doing anything outside of my degree. People to my right and left are settleing down, connecting with eachother in a meaningful way, and as MissConstrue mentioned, having families. I feel out of my league with my peers, and I react in immature ways (by intentionally blowing them off for blowing me off). The one thing that I'm looking forward to is getting back into the army as an officer and keeping all my nco ex-peers in line. I'd definately be the bad guy if this were a movie.

I feel that way too but as a very wise man (or rather half human Time Lord) once said.

"It's no use being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes"

Yes I'm a big kid! Not a bad of anoying one (well not most of the time anyway) after all I'm someone who's heroes are (to name a few) Esteban (from 'The Mysterious Cities of Gold') The Doctor (from 'Doctor Who' abet in his Sconed incarnation for the most part) Captain America (the famed Marvel Superhero) Luke Skywalker (from 'Star Wars') Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tintin (from 'The Adventures of Tintin')

All of whom are idealsets, who fight for impossible ideals who wouldn't be mistaken for anti-heroes even if you tried.

Also many of them have a child like view of the world of which I fully inentfy with.

So if you are ever dissed for being childish/childlike then you can now have a few (fictional) icons that you can point to as good role models!

Likewise my gf has a simlier world view so then none of us feel as though one is better than the other (save in a lovey dubby way) so at long last I have girl who I can get my head around her (in a good way)

And she's MINE!! !!

Goodbye Till Next Time

I am 41 and just spent 2 hours jumping in a leaf pile. Is that wrong?

It's interesting. I can remember my mother saying something very similar to that. It struck me as odd as a child because however she phrased it confused me, and I tried to figure out how she could get older but still be younger than everyone else. When I became an adult myself, I still remembered her saying that and realized that I felt the same way. I should think of myself as learned and wise, but I don't. I even see people younger than me as elders. It makes me wish she were alive so that I could talk to her about it.

I definitely feel younger than my age. I never understood the concept of being "too old" for things that you enjoy. Friends that I had when I was younger outgrew me. I still don't really feel like an adult despite the fact that I've been self-sufficient for a very long time.

It makes me think if: "When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I fought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things."

WHY? Why do people reach a point where suddenly they are interested in totally different things? I don't understand it. I'll keep my childish things, thank you very much.

Not so much immaturity as that I nevere took the adult role seriously.

That is AWESOME!! !! !!

I feel somewhat immature for being 25. I'm horrible at finances and housekeeping. I play with my psychiatrist's toys, heck the intake worker at Kaiser actually assigned me to one who deals mostly with children. In other ways I'm about mature for my age.

I grew up all out of order. I was making machines from Meccano at 5, but took up blocks at 10. I had girlfriends at 4, 11, and 15-up. But I'm 62 now, and almost ready to write a short essay on the basic stuff I wish I'd known about in kindergarten, #1 being not to expect people to be logical.

I think I might finally be ready to be a teenager, but that opportunity has already passed. By that, I mean I think that I have finally acquired the emotional and social maturity I needed to be a well-adjusted fourteen-year-old, but didn't have at that time. I want a second chance. Intellectually, I feel older than my real age.

i don't think I'll ever grow up, I haven't changed much since I was 13, nor have I gotten any taller (hai-oh)
(its true I haven't)

Yes. I feel less mature than others in my age group (50s). I haven't managed my finances and friendships well. I'm not settled. But on the other hand, I'm alot more lively than many of the people my age and still get to enjoy my outdoor hobbies.