You sound like a child....?

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After greeting a fellow co-worker today, she referred that I sounded 'child-like'-but that's good.... I have been working alongside this person for some months now and I've never heard that before. Maybe it was my artificial 'happy to be here tone' came off wrong?

Has anyone ever been told this?

Um, long ago, a cousin of mine got annoyed with me and called me childish because I asked him questions such as...
1. Which faculty in your college produces the highest number of good-looking people?
2. Which faculty's canteen serves the best food?
3. How often does the typical college student participate in sports?

Yes I did when I was in my early 20's While it was true that I acted like a child for a time, I find that those kinds of comments out of the blue like that are rather insulting.

Examples:
I lived with a bad friend and her terrible mother for a month and a half and they told me I acted like an 8 year old at 20. They also tried to tell me that I am the only adult on planet earth who had not grown up while everyone else acted their age.

They thought that I was stupid when I said, "Well not everyone is mature at a certain."

My ex-friend, then 17 acted like a know it all and and went,"No, they have to grow up."

The second one was when I stayed with an ignorant respite provider 8 years ago for a few weeks when I aunt was out of town. I happened to love cartoons and I always will. At that time, Spongebob and Shrek were popular. So I made a joke about Shrek and Spongebob. I even told her her the joke." The respite provider said, "You're 23 but you are not acting like it because you talk about all these cartoons around me non stop. Other people your age don't dive into that stuff. Why aren't you acting your age?"

Anyway, people who make comments like that may have a good point but I feel that they don't need to say that to you. Then again, they seem to make them when they don't know what to say.

It sounds like it is true for Icyfire4w5 as your comments were not childish by highly intelligent and your cousin did not know how to take it since your IQ is up here and she is average.

I want to know more about Android's "childlike" sound. Do you think it's your VOICE? That would be interesting. Or maybe it's the TONE? Or the questions/words themselves, like others suggested.

If it was the tone, it could be that you're always simplistic in the emotions you relate to others when you communicate. This could mean that you don't try to relate complex emotions to other people. So maybe everything you say fits into HAPPY or SAD or AFRAID or CONFUSED and nothing else. Even though maybe you internally also feel JEALOUS and ALTRUISTIC and AMAZEMENT and INTRIGUED you might not know how to express these feelings to others.

If it's the questions or words, that could be phrasing something like:

"Wow, is it 12:00 yet? I sure am hungry. Maybe we could go to that new Mexican place. Or maybe you'd rather get sushi? What does Bob think?"

in an aspie way, which they think is childish:

"I want to go to lunch."

I sometimes feel self conscious about the level of my intelligence, whether it be higher or lower than the people around me, and I try to adjust accordingly. But I often come off as very childish either way, especially when I am expressing positive emotions. That being said, I don't think it is a bad thing, most of the time.