Do you feel less mature than other people your own age?

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In some senses yes in other no.

When young I always felt more sensible than other people my own age, and in work always very sensible, reliable and conscientiousness. However in terms of emotional control and perhaps even maturit , I feel less able than some other people, and I do feel young when I see people 10 years younger than me, heaving children and being in relationships etc.
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I feel more mature in some ways and less mature in others. In terms of personal relationships, platonic or romantic, I feel light years behind others because their secret code escapes me. Sometimes I'm disappointed by that, sometimes I'm glad being not part of that crowd.

I'm sure people consider me as far less mature than my peers. I think I'm probably seen as someone who's very absent-minded and childish (which I suppose I am to some extent), but it does upset me sometimes since people seem to think I'm too oblivious to care or understand general things.

I have excitable outbursts and find it extremely difficult to 'translate' my thoughts into English, so I suppose I can understand why people think I'm immature. It's pretty frustrating, though, when there's this whole other personality inside you that you can't communicate to the outside world.

I just feel like I'm not as immature as people think I am, though I may be biased.

Absolutely. At work, I still feel like I did in my 20s. I find myself deferring to "older" people, who -- now I am almost 50-- turn out to be younger than me now!

It depends on the context...

If you mean interpersonally immature, yes...
If you mean emotionally immature, yes...
If you mean attaining objectivity, no...
If you mean logically, no...
If you mean intellectually, no...

Socially? Yes. I watched my childhood friends moving on to complete independence. Some just got married and had their own kids. But I don't "regret" it, since none of those things are a part of my own plans in life.

Emotionally? Maybe yes. After all, even people are around me I still feel like I'm not trying hard enough.

Intellectually? Semi-frustrated about it, but not left behind. If anything, I'm always ahead. I can always bug people for their knowledge and wisdom. But unable to do so since my only problem is the goddamned social contexts that still confuses me to no end.

And I'm still learning.

Overall, I still feel younger than the rest of my peers. Sometimes even feel younger than the actually younger people around me; like about 5-10 years old gap. People still confuses me.

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I look and act younger than my age. I never got married, never had any kids. Had jobs but never bought a house. Used my money mainly for rent, guitars and keyboards. I still play video games like Deus Ex, Far Cry and Duke Nukem. Mentally, I feel like I'm stuck at around 22-24 years of age.

Yes, and it's a source of great shame and embarrassment for me (I'm trying to remind myself that everyone's path in life is different and we achieve things at different times, if we achieve them at all, and that's OK. It's hard, though, when you still live at home, can't work, you're single, etc. and your friends are getting married, furthering their careers, etc.)

My friends don't seem to judge me for it, though, (if they do, they keep it to themselves as they ought to), so I suppose that's something. Doesn't change that I've internalised a lot of shame, though.

Although, like others, I do feel more mature in some ways.