Anyone Feel Immature for Their Age?

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I do. Besides having akward social skills, I can't seem to "fit in" or talk like an adult. For one, I'm not married nor have a family so that might be part of the reason. I notice I tend to get along better with the elderly and sometimes kids...which is a huge gap in age difference but no one really around my age group. I'm not diagnosed for being mentally ret*d so that doesn't explain it.

I also do some pretty immature things like for examle sometimes when I'm bored I'll randomly throw a paper wad at someone while their walking, or randomly yell at someone while passing while in a car....yeah, pretty stupid...I don't know why I do it....

I also enjoy silly shows like animal planet cartoon network when I'm at my sister's. I think I embarass my family and anyone I'm around. I kind of now feel withdrawn because of this problem.

Anyone else have this "problem"?

I definitely feel that way a lot. As a person, I haven't developed in the same way as most NT's do. However, sometimes it helps to know that they can be even more stupid and immature.

YES, thank God! (Look at my age.)

^You know, I haven't thought about it but that's so true in many ways!

Uh huh. Not only am I immature as a 20 year old, but I look very young too. Not annoying immature, more like I still love cartoons and can't talk like adults immature.

I have a very mature aspect, and vocabulary, but my sense of humor is very immature. I know that I puzzle and dismay people sometimes, with what I find funny. I think I grew up "unevenly."

I’m 28 but I still feel like the real me is more child than adult. As a child I thought adult life was dull and tedious. Back then I thought I would get over it some day. It hasn’t happened.

All my old friends and acquaintances have grown up and gotten married. I still don’t understand why people desire to become married and have children and then have no time for anything but work. Why? It must be that I’m missing some little evolutionary brain gene that makes normal people desire to produce spawn. I guess it’s a good thing that the majority of people want to reproduce but alas, I will never understand it.

I am 33 and usually act like a 10 year old. I don't have kids..I run around in funny costumes...make, collect, and play with toys....etc....

That sounds like fun poopielungstuffing! Cool avatar BTW!

I think I'd hate to be as dull as someone who HAD to give up their creative qualities or interests that is part of their very own persona just to be what adults expect them to be. I've found kids a lot more accepting to my eccentric or odd aspects such as interests than adults.

lol I'm so very immature... I always have ideas that others consider weird, I get all excited about some things and start jumping around and all. and you should see me on a first day of snow lol.

I don't feel any need to have kids either, too much of a responsibility. I can't wait for my best friends to have their own though, I'm gonna be the crazy auntie Anna and I'm going to spoil them rotten

Definitely! I love to play with toys, play games and swing. I'm always mistaken for being MUCH younger than I am. Just this summer I was at a week long conference and I bonded best with the 18 year olds.

Funny thing? When I was growing up I never liked being with other kids, I preferred the company of adults. A bit bassackwards, 'eh?

I had a really lousy childhood...it was like a long dark tunnel of badness....so maybe I have spent the rest of my life making up for it....never too late to have a happy childhood...just can't seem to snap out of it though....

I don't think I am, so much.

I don't go around getting ridiculously stoned or drunk, I work 5 days a week, I go to bed way early everyday (i'm probably going to bed in 15 minutes). I don't know if maturity is decided by social activity or not. I guess I just act my age. (even though acting my age these days generally could mean immaturity, i think you understand where i'm coming from)

OMG!.....yes....

the moon!......I dance and flapp and point it out....

the other day - was taking pic's of the moon.....and a "paranoid" neighbour asked: "what are you taking pictures of?".....(picture deep accusatory.....angry voice).....while she stared....squeezing shots of eye glare-ishness my way.....

"the moon!.....I replied...

"HUH?"....she replied...

"THE M-O-O-N!! !" I replied....

"look" and I pointed.....

(she craned her neck for a moment.....spotted it.....and got very bored....(how could that be possible?.....it was a Hunter's Moon!!).....in a nano-second....and I wondered......"am I crazy?"....(don't answer that....)

anyway....


not understanding why the moon would be so interesting....when I should have - could have been taking pictures of all the garbage strewn on her front lawn....


yes!! ! I'm immature....I love cartoons....I love the moon!.....I love things most grown-ups think are stupid....or don't notice al'all...

and I feel like an a*ss sometimes because of it...

other times....

it's just plain exilerating......the H**lll with what anyone thinks...

(however - on the flip side - I despair of always having to work so hard at being mature....."an adult"......I'm a natural child....and an "un-natural adult............. and

does that equal - confusion?

meh....
who cares....

I have the same problem, but I figured out why it is easier to talk to older people and kids. It eliminates the sexual tension of talking to someone in my age group. You don't have to be cool or accepted, they don't care about that stuff, and it eliminates alot of pressure. I have been self-evaluating myself for many years now, and I have learned alot. It is just easier to talk when you don't have to worry about impressing the other person. Sexual tension can reduce me to appearing like an idiot. I know the problem, but I haven't figured out how to beat it, just yet. Give me a little time....

^I never really thought of it that way but that could be part of the reason. But I really do think I tend to drive ppl away even potential friends. It's gotten to where I feel like isolating myself...

I was going to mention that on the other hand I think I also come off too mature. My interests have always been into dictionaries, books, and crafts...instead of anything social. I used to drink b/c of this problem..still is a problem. I've never really been big on putting ppl down or doing things that would get me in trouble...maybe some things but nothing that would have me arrested or put in harm's way or the other way around.