Childish behaviour, is any one else dealing with this?

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I'm very much like that.
My own assessment is that my intellectual maturity (relative to NTs around me) is closer to 200 years, and my emotional maturity (relative) is closer to 10 years. I am 48.
I have tons of toys, though are not the same as a child's toys. A lot of them are test equipment.
My fascination with real things in the world is basically the same as when I was a child.
I didn't have that many child toys as a child. I had a lot of models and plastic dinosaurs, and books.

Oh suddenly I want to get some felt-tips and colouring books. It's so therapeutic watching a blank space fill with colour bit by bit. I'm gonna go shopping in a bit and will get some then

I think that is very sweet Joe and you should not be uncomfortable to admit that.

I LOVE to color. My brother searched high and low and spent half his vacation trying to find me a special coloring book from the place he visited. He was so excited to give it to me since it took him two vacations to that place and over two weeks to find it. He finally found it on the last day of the second trip. He wanted to get me two but they only had one. I was elated when he surprised me with it. It's my favorite coloring book. He could have given me a bar of gold and I would not have been as elated as I was to receive this $1.00 coloring book.

I'm 48 and I still buy and play with LEGO for fun. I really like the theme LEGO (Star Wars LEGO, etc.)

My 8 year old nephew thinks it's cool I lke LEGO.

Awww.. your bro sounds so sweet and caring. Have fun! : )

P.S. When I went shopping I remembered I had felt-tips and colouring books already. I'd bought for relatives kids when planning to visit them in the past and never did. Happy I didn't have to spend anymore money : )

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Your mother doesn't know what she's talking about Coda. My room is still full of toys and stuffed animals, I still like watching shows for little kids like Arthur, Rugrats and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. I still run around the house in my hooded cape with my imaginary sidekick protecting the world from evildoers, I still read comic books and novels written for elementary and middle schoolers. I wouldn't worry about it too much; we just develop socially and emotionally more slowly than NTs. All of my juvenile traits have not prevented me from getting my driver's license, finding a job, and going full-time to university, you'll be fine. (I love your tangle by the way: I have a fuzzy one I bring with me to school; very effective stim toy )

Colouring is not childish. You can get colouring books for adults. I have recently read in a magazine that colouring in is becoming quite common in adults and is a good way to help relax people who are stressed or anxious. My (NT) mum loves colouring in.

I do love the Tweenies. I want to find a box set with all the Tweenies episodes on, because I can't find them all on the internet for some reason, only a few. I do skip some of the songs and the stories on the Tweenies, but I do love watching them play and communicate and make stuff and all of that sort of thing. Also I like their personalities.

I wanted to share the cool coloring books of Bob Anderson which are amazing for any age. Especially for the nature-lovers.

Bob Anderson's Art

It's not weird at all. We all long back to the more simple times of our childhood, away from the unbearable chaos of adult life. Doing things from our childhood that others would consider childish allows us to go back to those simple times if only for a small fraction of time. Doing these things gives me comfort and peace of mind, it is sad that other people cannot understand and accept this.

I wish there were more people who could relate to this or with which I could share these activities with in real life.

omg... I'm totally a kid at heart. I know exactly how you feel. I'm a huge collector of plushies, and my mom used to hate this. She started to understand more as being part of my multiple disabilities though. I never act like an adult either, and I'm 25 years old. I still act very child-like, and I also still sleep with lights on and have to sleep with some of my plushies. It's something I find very comforting. I even carry around my plushies, especially my grumpy cat plush lately. I always have Jessamine, my espeon plush and my Death the Kid plus attached to my bag as well.

I also still watch cartoons, and I still play things like pokemon as well. Growing up is totally overrated.

Sometimes when I see a very well-detailed play set or an inflatable animal or something like that what you play with in the swimming-pool, I feel the urge to buy one and play with it. But I know that if I did buy a play set or an inflatable water toy, I would just about play for about five minutes and then get bored and want to do something more grown-up, like watch TV or go on the computer or read a magazine or newspaper. The feelings of wanting to do something grown-up is natural for me. I only have mild Asperger's, so I think most of my maturity levels are average.

I'm a child at heart, my toy race cars became real ones because as an adult I could do that. I like to play with them and they and my music interests are the main focus of my life. I like children's shows and when I watch TV that's what I watch and I honestly can't remember the last time I changed my room décor. I will say that its getting really weird to see my peers settle down, get married and have kids, the adult lifestyle that they crave is so repulsive to me.

Age is just a number, quite subjective, and quite fluid.



And when people get heavily drunk, they probably behave far more "childishly" than any of what the posters on this board have described. I really, REALLY don't like reality TV. Why is liking that stuff considered to be "adult"? It's all gossip, so-called fashion, and outright voyerism, IMO.



Exactly. Those movies are NOT intended for children now, right?!



Same here. As long as you can conduct your life in the way you want, and take care of yourself, then why is it anyone else's business what you like/do in your free time?

This thread is making me miss some of my old stuff that I lost track of. Coda: LOVE the cars!

I occasionally do crafts myself--mainly jewelry-making (not anything that would sell, mind you--just designs I like wearing). Bought a 72-color pencil set a while back, and every now and then I come up with something that goes on my wall....yep, still do that, and while I'll never be a professional artist (ironically, when I was a kid, I hated being made to do anything "artistic", but now that it's not being graded/judged I enjoy it), it's something I like doing.

I just made a hairdec to resemble Sailor Jupiter's (just two beads on an elastic cord), and bought a set of rose earrings a while ago largely because of hers...and yet, all of those things are barely noticeable by anyone as "odd", so stuff like that is a way of "flying under the radar", so to speak.

I still like cartoons, both those intended for kids and those that....aren't. I watch my favorite movies and TV episodes over and over (thank you, Netflix).

Never, ever, EVER be anything other than yourself--I'm talking to all of you here.

Can you identify what exactly is repulsive about it?
What sort of racecars do you have by the way?

Yeah, I miss my plushies sometimes when I'm out and having a rough day and just want to be back "home" with them, too. It's like they're some of the only people who understand me.