Childlike?

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i love this quote!

Recently I saw a video of myself and it was a shock to me, to tell you honestly.Turns out that I move, talk and act like a 14-15 year old with gender identity issues who has escaped from the gifted programme. No wonder people are creeped out.

When I complained to my husband about this he said 'You might have not been able to see yourself for so many years but I've watched you struggle through adolescence for the last 16 years and you are not nearer to maturity than when you were 18'.
Which finished me off.

I'm very much the same way; though I guess I've caught up to my "old soul" biologically a little bit

Aww, thanks! I guess I described it well

I don't really play with toys any more. I used to build Lego at age 15, but then I got bored playing with it after, whereas when I was a small child I could play with Lego for hours.

I don't know if this is childish or not, but I like to write stories then get my mum to read them afterwards. She says writing is not childish. Some people make thousands for writing stories.

I am mostly on the computer, which is not childish. I play The Sims and Rollercoaster Tycoon, which isn't childish either, because I know a lot of NTs who play computer games at my age.

I sometimes act childish, though. When the cat is asleep, I keep on going over to her to touch and annoy her, then I get really amused when she meows at me. (That is baby behaviour actually ).

I cry a lot too. But not when I hurt myself. I outgrew that a long time ago. But I cry at emotional things. I think most women do.

Also, I can act like a sulky 12 year old sometimes.

But, often, I act like an old woman of about 70, when I complain about things and worry about things what old people would worry about. As a matter of fact, I act every age group except my own.

I feel/do that all the time. I still feel like a child and I often hear that I behave like a child.

Living is a career in a good meaning. You cannot form a stable relationship with a companion if you have not lived an adolescence. Adolescence is going through trials and errors and learn, like in any kind of career. Sociologists talk of a criminal career, in the sense that even there you learn to become a don. Probably adolescence is where we fail in a decisive way. Adolescence is very competitive and if you don't know instinctively the rules of the game you miss this whole essential piece of living, Competition is fight, but is also compassion, the capacity to understand what the other needs and when and where he/she can get help.

When I was a teenager, still at school-age, I was always told to ''be grown-up'' and ''you should be more responsible now''. It's like everyone wanted me to be an adult. I know most people like being treated like an adult when they're still children, but I didn't find it very helpful for me. I enjoyed being a kid, and most 13 to 16 year olds are still immature and naive, and I was still a school girl then. But people still expected more out of me, as though I was in my 20s.
Not only that - what makes me really mad is now that I'm nearly 21, some of my younger cousins are, like, aged between 13 and 16, and nobody bats an eyelid when they act as immature as I did when I was their age, and it's like they're allowed to be children, but when I was their age the story was different. That annoys me.

For example, when I was 14, I had a really untidy bedroom - which most typical teenager's do. But everybody made a fuss and was saying, ''your room is worse than a little child's room! Aren't you old enough to clean it up yet? Blah blah blah......'' But now my 15 year old cousin's room is in a much worse state than mine was at that age, and everyone just says, ''just like any teenager's bedroom!'' And that is one of many examples.

What annoys me even more is my friend was complaining to me about her boyfriend's daughter (who is only 3), who had snatched food away without asking, and my friend was saying, ''ohh, she's nearly 4 - she should know better by now!'' But I bet you that if one of my teenage cousins did something similar, people would probably just grin and say, ''oh, silly kids!''

I'm very childlike. I've always needed a mentor type friend to attach to. Some of my friends have told me they feel like a surrogate mother.

My shrink said I was childlike, whimsical, innocent and other such adjectives. I have read the same things RE autism. We just stay young longer.

That's exactly what my psychologist, psychiatrist, friends and boyfriend say. They also say that they feel an urge to protect me but at the same time feel that they can trust and relie (sp?) on me. People also get "chocked" when they first meet me and see the childlike me and then when they talk to me about something I can sound so mature and professorlike.