Anyone else feel older than their age?

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I feel as though I should be the same age of my parents. I like the stuff that the youth of their generation enjoyed, at least 45 years ago. I don't mix very well with people my own age, no matter how hard I try.

This is a difficult question.. Having these new roommates (20 and 23) is driving me absolutely nuts, and I don't know if it's the age thing or not. It is pretty odd that I find it about ten billion times easier to relate to the next-door neighbor, who is older than my parents, than I do to these girls.. But the next door neighbor may be a tiny bit aspie-ish herself. Part of why I like Maria so much is that she'll talk and talk and talk, so I'm not all nervous trying to figure out how to hold a conversation, 'cause she holds up the whole conversation herself. And she's full of advice about sewing. But also, I think that for a lot of people, getting older means not caring as much about social stuff. I remember a teacher saying that it was so liberating to turn 50, because it means you don't have to care what anybody thinks anymore. So maybe any aspie who isn't still like a kid is just more like they're older?

Yes, I have always felt older than I am. My Mother says that I was never a child. I was just shorter.

I am 28 and I get on better with people in their 40s. Sometimes they forget that I am younger. My friend once asked me what concerts I went to at a venue in Glasgow that had been closed for several years. I told him I had never heard of it and asked when it had closed down. He said 1989. I was 8 in 1989! He forgot that I was that much younger than him, which I thought was funny.

I feel like an old person who chooses to still act like a teenager in some ways.