Why do we have immature interest?

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Pretty much the lack of social awareness of what's appropriate for your age. However, it's just chance if yours happens to be immature or not for your age.

You can say that the interests can be mature and it'd be just as right. I liked astronomy when I was 5 (ma bought me a book), and I had grasped a lot in my head, much of which was outside of my age group (even though I just started talking a half a year before and I couldn't read and write); I got my mother to read it to me and I then understood it. I mainly stared at the pictures, but I learnt the composition of the various atmospheres and how each one looked easily, for example.

Astronomy is still an interest I have, just not now (they're cyclic), and it's appropriate for someone who's 28.

I'm very aware of what's appropriate for my same-aged peers. I just don't have any interest in the stuff that they're interested in. I have my own interests, and my own life. If people don't like that, than tough turkeys.

I'm 19 and I don't think I've got any childish interests. And anyway, you don't have to have aspergers to have childish interests. My cousin (who is 17) hasn't got aspergers at all, is very very popular, into the latest fashion, wears expensive make-up, ect, but she still likes happymeals at mcdonalds and buys a silly toy, then walks around showing it off. Also she still goes trick or treating. I haven't been trick or treating since I was 13.

Admittedly, I did used to like Lego when I was 15, but then I used to grow bored of it quickly. I only get it out if my 10 year old cousin comes round - I don't otherwise now. I love playing computer games - but my brother does, and he's 23, but he has not got aspergers or anything. Most youngsters do like computer games. My Mum's friend is in her 30s and loves playing on the wii. But I don't think I have any childish interests really.
I like the Simpsons, but that's not really an embarrassing thing. I stopped watching Thomas the Tank when I was 8. I do like to watch Disney films occasionally, but I think we all do. And I'm a girl!! !
I like Tom and Jerry aswell - but my 17 year old cousin does.

Nothing else really. I like playing the piano, but that's not childish - that's a hobbie. Adults who play the piano have talent, and could get paid millions if they turned it into a career.

I can't watch violent films, but that's got nothing to do with having aspergers. It might just be my taste. My brother doesn't like romantic films - it's just his taste. I like comedy though, like French and Saunders, and Bottom, and the Young Ones, and all those cool things what most people my age like. And I like the soaps, like Eastenders.

So, no, I don't really have any childish interests.

here's a question: who suddenly decided what is and isn't immature? Oh...just because "society" deems it so.

Here's something you should know: most of what society deems acceptable past childhood is just a variation on half the "immature" things we do as kids. It's just doing those things in different ways...and then denying it's the same thing. That's all it is.

If you want proof, turn on CNN or Fox News, and watch when people start debating; tell me you didn't hear the exact equivalent of that on the schoolyard as a kid, but worded more like "you're stupidhead"; I kid you not, there's no difference.

Just because people aren't into what they were into as children doesn't make them any more or less mature; it's just what's considered "acceptable" by society's standards.

And if you're willing to drink society's "Kool-Aid" I feel really bad for you...especially you folks, since most of it is so incredibly hypocritical.

When I was eleven the headmaster of the school took us all into a room and told us some would have more mature interests and some would be lagging behind. When he said some would lag behind, the whole row in front of me turned to stare at me.

I like children's books and movies. And I like sensory toys for very young children as long as the colors aren't overwhelming. I think the books and movies are because my language comprehension is delayed and I find adult books harder to follow. (My decoding is advanced, or maybe just used to be, but my comprehension is crappy.)

I like the sensory toys because they are not too complex and I am rather easily entertained.

I have lots of mature interests in addition to my fondness for things kids like, too, like the sensation of smearing paint, or oh god, trampolines. My sense of humour is also fairly immature. I delight in jokes appropriate for children. And I like certain children's tv shows.

Technically two of my interests, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, are aimed at children. However, the only people I have met who liked them were adults. In fact, the day I went to see Alice in Wonderland, the theatre was packed with people my age and older. Not a kid in sight.

yea i fixate on cicadas and climb trees to get them and im 26 years old. and my sence of humer is very child like. but i can not have a conversation with kids at all i dont know how, what makes it bad is i have kids. i was a bit embarest about my fixations and people telling me i was a nerd until i turned into a moody better not mess with me or ill hit you type of guy. i hate violence but i dont take any crap from people

I agree with the doctor, it's society who decides what's mature or immature. Society also decides pink is for girls and blue for boys. How is that for absurd? if you go to some other countries, you'll find boys wearing pink and nobody will find it gay. it all depends on those unwritten rules of the society we live in.

Admittedly I still play with the very same teddy bears I had twenty years ago, which nobody knows, not even my husband. Somehow i feel this society wouldn't be able to accept it. why? i have no idea. it doesn't harm anybody. Yet this Ô-so-great-and-mature society thinks it's completely normal to make a bull suffer (bullfight), or tests formidably useless cosmetics in a rabbit's eye. That to me is shameful, yet very few "mature" and "normal" people mind. Don't tell me lipstick saves lives...

what's wrong with turtles?

never heard of iCarly, sorry. this whole society is hypocritical, don't even try to understand it.