How old are you, mentally?

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I don't feel like a 21 years old man, but like a 2 years old with a life experience as an 80 years old.

I'm 15...

I feel 2.5 years older.

How'd you manage to fit all that experience into just 21 years?

I can't really say what my mental age is.

Neither can I.

Tim

Sometimes my age, 49. Sometimes I get in a silly mood where I feel about 12. I swing between the two but try to stay in adult mode most of the time

Are you trying to say that you just FEEL old?

I'm not sure. I'm 17 (About to turn 18) and i'm obsessed with things like Road Rovers and Final Fantasy but I listen to classic rock music like mosty adults do (I prefer the hair metal side of the classic rock spectrum, though). I can get incredibly goofy and bizarre when i'm unmedicated and I sleep in a bed full of stuffed animals. Gee, I have no clue what age I am mentally.

OH, OK. I thought you were asking about IQ basically. OK, I am getting closer to 10. I still feel a little too old. 8-( At least I don't feel OLD anymore.

Steve

What I am saying is that I feel like a 2 years old (I use security blanket and and other comfort items, and my best friends are my stuffed animals/cuddly toys) but at the same time, I have the life experience and knowledge of life as an 80 years old, and also have the same interests. I like to discuss how it was in the good old days, that is, before 1920's.

I have experienced so much in my life that I feel like I have all the required knowledge of of life, and know the true meaning of life.

I can best identify myself with a baby or an 80 years old.

i can act like a 40 year old at times(especially when i'm with the some of the immature people at my school) and then i'll act like an 11 year old later on.

i've never been great with emotions and when i do become emotional, it's worse than how a "normal" person would react

(i'm 16)

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Whatever I am, I'm not my age, so I have the same sort of split as you.
I don't act/think my age. Seriously older, yes, seriously younger, yes.

The one age group that, overall, I've had most difficulty getting on with is my own.

someone told me i act like an 11 year old(i'm 15).my mom says i act 7.so i dunno.

I'm 16, I feel like a 24 year old, and my back feels like a 70 year old sometimes. . . ya, I use the computer to much. Hehe.

I feel like a 2 to 3 year old stuck in a 32 year old's body. I have a blue secruity blanket that I wrap myself in, no matter what the season is, I have my security Buses that I play with, and a favourite that I take with me, when I go to my parents' place to spend the night with Chico. I'm also wearing Pull-ups part-time. However, I am very independent and I'm managing life on my own. I just need a big, Gentle Giant to be my handler and to help me out with my social and emotional problems.

Much the same here. I get on either with small children or older people, but rarely with teens or people my age. It's better now than it was when I was a teen - age differences appear to become less relevant with time - but it's still there.

I'd say I usually feel somewhere like 9 to 12. When I'm my normal hypomanic-ey self, I'm your typical extroverted curious kid. Getting all excited about learning something new (about animals) or finding out how things work (in the animal kingdom of course), and just loving every little thing. I never lost my sense of wonder, and the world still seems more often than not full of magic.

But there are moments when I'm thoughtful and start looking back on my life and summing up what I've learned from it. Then I become acutely aware of who I am and what various things things mean to me - on the whole, of how meaningful every moment is. It's almost intolerable and feels like being an old person in a young woman's body.

14.