talking and acting like a kid

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No because I don't know what the widely held male perspective is on women who act childish. If the original poster was female and speaking of how her action annoyed her boyfriend, I would have not have been able to provide much commentary as to the logic of his reaction with respect to gender roles and biological logic. I would simply have told her, more or less, to stop it.

There are wonderful, kind and loving people out there who are willing to 'deal' with the immaturity that is inherent in a meltdown, because they can see the positives in person - and the positive sides of Aspergers.

Yes., I can be pretty immature. Controlling that immaturity is part of the whole effort to appear more NT. I laugh at very childish things, so primitively childish that I've even had aspies ask me what's so funny about it. That's why I can really lose it with autistic kids - we laugh at the same things. A lot of other aspects of my behaviour can probably be considered to be immature, too.

Sometimes, and I'm kinda ashamed to admit it too. I'm not the most mature 17 year old on earth.

During a meltdown I become incisively logical, talk to myself loudly enough for others to hear my opinions of their behavior and even make make-believe phone calls to assist in this verbal outburst. Twenty years ago, people used to fear me where I worked because my logic durign meltdowns would make their petty behavior look shameful.

It's not hard to me talking and acting like a kid, it's in my nature.

The meltdowns I have have a definite childish character, I swear, scream, yell, sometimes beat inanimate things. I feel ashamed and pity for myself that I can't manage things the way I should and I can't protect myself from being verbally abused by others.

I'm like that normally when I'm NOT having a meltdown. I'm extremely immature in some ways. check my Custom Rank
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I do. I get embarrassed about it sometimes and sometimes I can hide it but other times I can't. If I am in an emotional meltdown I tend to get very childlike and sometimes even as young as a toddler. It is stressful on relationships though because people who don't go through anything like this cannot possibly understand why it happens and they think it's manipulative. But I think it is a coping mechanism that the brain refers to when it is completely overwhelmed. For me it creates a safe place for my brain where it can try to make sense of all of the sensory overload.

Sometimes I get stuck between the ages of 2 to 5 or 10 to 12 depending on what I am dealing with.

Sometimes I do too. I have a little stuffed animal I hold as well. Guess it works kind of like a binky.

Please do not be rude or judgmental. People who suffer from this do not do so just because they want to. Sometimes there is actually a physiological issue in the brain that has caused it to not be able to develop emotionally past a certain level and it is very difficult to cure this. It is not something you can just not do. Unless you know the person's situation you cannot know why they do this so sensitivity is always a good thing. Sometimes you can learn to control it but sometimes you can't so unless you know the person's issue please don't be rude.

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Regardless of severity of the meltdown, yes i display childish behavior.
Either some type of stimming, verbal repetition, not talking, punching things,
crying, worst total shutdown not response.

Same thing as when i was a child...

I noticed that same stare in many of my childhood pics too. But not my baby pics, I think it was more in the pics around the age of three or four when I notice it.

Do you tend to do all of these things during a meltdown or do you do some of them sometimes and others at other times? I can vary. Sometimes my speech pattern will change, sometimes I have crying fits, sometimes I just kind of blank out and shut down. Sometimes I talk to my stuffed animal that I hold or just feel him because he is very soft and I like that. I don't know if I have done them all in the same meltdown though. Sometimes when I have a crying fit my cry pattern will be like an infant or toddlers and sometimes I cry out and scream for one particular person that I am attached to just like a toddler would. Sometimes rocking calms me too.

When I am in a panic or very anxious about something, I shout out 'I don't like it' in a childish voice, and sometimes cry like a child. My natural voice is childish, but I try hard to cover this up in public - I am not sure how successful I am with this, and I have been told I have a young voice. I also look younger than my years, and many people are shocked when I tell them I left school many years ago!.