Do you feel like you're still a child?

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Do you feel like you're still a child?

Yes, except that I direct my own life.

Yeah, it's weird. I feel as though I'm still around 25, but the mirror is telling me something completely different. When I look around for the grownups, I realize that is what I am supposed be - it is kind of frightening.

I'm sure if you were to ask most NTs the same question and they were to be brutally honest they would say yes as well.

Most definitely. I look around and see men who are younger than me but seem so much more adult. "Adults" have made a right mess of the planet. I will happily keep my child mind.

I was skipping down the hall at work, about two weeks before I first heard about Asperger's Syndrome, and I remembering me asking myself "I wonder why I never grew up?"

I was 56 at the time.

Merle

I want to build a sandbox in the back yard, buy all the Tonka toys I can find, and die happy!

I have heard a lot of people express the same feelings-- people who I didn't think had AS (of course, who knows? Maybe they did)-- so I don't think it's a characteristic just of aspies. I wonder if anyone really thinks of themselves as a grownup or "old."

Is there anything you miss about being a child? In almost every case, I'm happy to be an adult, but I really miss swingsets. I spent the majority of my time at recess in school swinging, and I had a tire swing in my yard at home. They don't make swingsets for grownups; if I tried to use one now, I'd probably break it!

I'm watching Freakazoid instead of doing my homework as we speak... well, right now anyway...

i feel like i am total child compared to other men my age.

Sometimes.

I don't make much of a differentiation in myself or others.

Aside from the obvious age factor, the point at which a person would be considered adult is extremely unclear and generally in observation, i will have the impression that a person is child-like regardless of level of accomplishment or independence.

I have found that I have begun to make associations that would allow for me to relabel what I once recognized as childish behavior in adults as being, 'lacking in sophistication'. This is allowing for me to rework my understanding of the ideas that would define the difference between child and adult.

As for children, it is natural for me to treat them with as much seriousness and respect as I would any given adult. From childhood, I never found any reasoning in the appropriateness of treating a child with less respect or consideration than a person of adult age. This goes into how I see some aspects of adult behavior. It appears to me that the biggest change comes from the idea that they can now expect this respect from others because they have reached the adult age, but otherwise they are who they have always been since childhood.

Often. When I'm in a social situation and I have no idea what's really going on...I feel about 6.

Yes, and I like it. Others also like it.

Yep, I'm not evil enough to be an adult.
JC.

I don't want to grow up, and why should I? As long as I can act like an adult at work and in other survival-relevant situations, why not be a child the rest of the time?

I enjoy accumulating knowledge and worldly wisdom, but I also like toys and stuff.