I'm turning 30 soon

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I feel old now.

Welcome to old!

I'll be one decade closer to death. and what have I accomplished in my life? Zip.

I'm counting on sweet robot bodies and mind-uploading being a thing before I kick the bucket. It'll be crucial for when we colonize space and make Star Trek a reality. Just gotta keep of sound mind and body in the meantime. And if you keep comparing your actual accomplishments to vaguely defined hypothetical accomplishments under wildly differing circumstances, you'll forever fall short. It's not an approach that makes sense. Move at incrementals, and compare yourself only to yourself at a prevous stage.

At least I found a fun hobby in tarot.

I feel younger than you sometimes.

Yes, but there's no reason I can't celebrate feeling young. I've got courage and tenacity but could do with more! Emotional maturity I'm still learning but am a lot better. Physically I feel much younger than I am.

I have it pretty much together but was hoping to send my MS sample to my publisher by end of March but will now have to wait until the lockdown is over I guess, as she first said after 15 March but now have to be patient until she's ready.

At 30, seeing a lot of my peers getting attached and married I sometimes felt left out.
In my 40s and 50s, seeing some of the same getting divorced with all the hassle that goes with that, I no longer feel left out, i feel happy to have been able to enjoy My own things, and dodge a pile of grief.

I recall it well. Its the only milestone birthday that has ever bothered me. It felt a little as though I was finally saying goodbye to being a youngster. Not very logical.

My youth was yesterday. I feel like a youngster myself. I wouldn't really mind being told I looked like a kid but it's been a while since that happened!

I guess that's why so many attractive boyish looking guys start growing beards and other facial hair, so that strangers can't tell them that.

37

Evicted twice

Expelled from all the schools

Made redundant from all the jobs

Dumped by all the "friends"

Zero job skills

No reason to continue living s**t

Hi, I'm new here! I can relate - I'm turning 29 soon and am wondering where the time has gone. I'm dreading turning 30 next year. I think it's because I'm way behind a lot of my peers regarding career progression and just life in general (because of autism I suppose). I feel like I've developed with about a ten year lag behind everyone else. I find it's a bit of a paradox with my autism - on the one hand I've done stressful jobs that NT friends have said they wouldn't have been able to do but on the other hand I'm still quite dependent on my parents for support (just as much as when I was in my late teens really) and still live at home. I have lived away from home but always with other people and often in places which sorted out a lot of stuff for you (bills all included etc.). The one time I was living alone in a flat in my early 20s it was a bit of a disaster really and couldn't really cope. I also don't feel as mature/grown up as I should really. I am starting to question whether I'll ever truly be able to be a proper adult or whether I'll always have issues.

^What kind of stressful jobs have you done before? Yes it can be rather a challenge to live on one's own as there are things to remember, but when I was working I was very seldom at home as I spent most weekends running marathons or on mountain hikes.

I'm sure you'll be OK. Welcome to WP!