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11 Nov 2014, 5:03 pm

EzraS wrote:
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I feel like the world is passing me by. I feel like an old man staring out my window as the young people are out enjoying their lives. The problem is that I'm only 19. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:


I feel that way. I'm not able to do a lot of stuff kids my age do. I sit and watch other kids play like an old man in a rocking chair. I see my life being the same when I'm 70 as it is now. Maybe that's why I get told how mature I am.


I do that during gym I cannot participate and I wish I could maybe I put a little bit not much now with these kids are doing the same things you don't you're doing mostly Like playing Angry Birds and candy crush.


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11 Nov 2014, 5:42 pm

jenisautistic wrote:
EzraS wrote:
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I feel like the world is passing me by. I feel like an old man staring out my window as the young people are out enjoying their lives. The problem is that I'm only 19. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:


I feel that way. I'm not able to do a lot of stuff kids my age do. I sit and watch other kids play like an old man in a rocking chair. I see my life being the same when I'm 70 as it is now. Maybe that's why I get told how mature I am.


I do that during gym I cannot participate and I wish I could maybe I put a little bit not much now with these kids are doing the same things you don't you're doing mostly Like playing Angry Birds and candy crush.


I never realized it being until in my late twenties,
I was never part of the other kids,
as I was om my own,
but I could not tell.
I watched them but I could not tell I should participate, and did not understand their actions and movements and words.
I was preoccupied with other things catching my mind.
So I did not feel old, as I could not tell "feeling old".
Now I can tell difference a bit and I feel younger than others my age (am 40) as I did not reach " grown up milestones", but I only get a glimpse of those and am back preoccupied with other things catching my mind.


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11 Nov 2014, 6:18 pm

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11 Nov 2014, 6:24 pm

I think normal adults have a social identity that they develop and use to relate to one another and understand that they belong in society.
Without that there can be a feeling of being a perpetual child isolated from that world.
For me it is like that.
Not to invalidate young people who feel the world is passing them by and feel more mature.
I think it is two different mental interpretations of being isolated.



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11 Nov 2014, 6:29 pm

At times I feel as ancient as time itself. And other times, I feel like a lost child who has been perpetually trapped in an adult form. It is difficult to describe really.


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11 Nov 2014, 7:37 pm

Graelwyn wrote:
At times I feel as ancient as time itself. And other times, I feel like a lost child who has been perpetually trapped in an adult form. It is difficult to describe really.

You put it pretty well.



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11 Nov 2014, 7:47 pm

When I was younger, I definitely felt more mature than my contemporaries. Probably because I valued my independence and resisted peer pressure. Which I figured were signs of maturity.

Nowadays, I feel like I never grew up.



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11 Nov 2014, 8:43 pm

Marybird wrote:
I feel like I never grew up.


That too since I have to be taken care of so much.