For those of you with kid sides, how is it for you?

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I know that I have shared that I have a side of me that is very childlike and I know that in other threads some of you have said that you do too. I am curious how it affects you and what kinds of things happen to you when your kid side pops up.

One thing for me is that I have a pretty low emotional quotient. This is actually funny because I took two tests for this and one rated my eq very low, the other rated it higher than average. But I think it was the way the questions were asked that made the difference. But I know myself in this regard and I know that often times I can really perceive and respond and even comprehend like a little kid.

One example which just happened which made me think about this and start this thread is that I was having trouble getting to sleep. My husband and I had talked about some things we need to work on in our relationship. We do often and that is very normal and good to have these talks in a marriage. My adult side was doing okay but my little kid side was a bit overwhelmed because of the mature content and so I was not quite settled to relax and try to fall asleep. Sometimes when I get unsettled in my little kid side I talk to one of my close relatives. He is really good with me and for some reason he has a better ability to relate to me in my little kid side than anyone else does and so when my little kid part is dominant he tends to help me with whatever it is dealing with better than anyone else can. So I called him and we just talked for about a minute and basically we just wished each other good night. Once he told me good night my little kid side was able to settle in and feel settled again and now I am able to go to sleep.

Am I weird or can anyone of you relate to this? I hope I am not the only one like this. It is kind of sweet and cute and I am glad to have people in my life who are not offended or freaked out that I have a little kid side but I hope that others of you can relate too.

Hey Woz, Yeah that dream was scary as tar. It was really freaky.
Thanks for the encouragement on my original post above. It is so great to have people in my life like my husband and this relative whom I can be myself with whatever that self might need to be.

It seems like you are able to really balance it out though, you are also able to have adult conversations about your relationship, so I say, super cool! I know a lot of adults who don't have a child side who can't do that.

I just posted this post to bring this thread back up to the first page. Sorry about that. But this has really been on my heart these past few days and I was hoping to hear from others about this. Thanks Woz for your response. I hope others will respond as well. Sorry for using this post just to give this thread another chance.

I think a lot of us have an inner child, I even think that holds true for NT's as well. I tend to put my inner child to good use when I go out to the gym to workout, I go late at night when no one is using the outdoor pool and since no one is. I just turn into a little dolphin kid and go absolutely ballistic in the water. Not only do I got to act like a kid to my heart content. But I can also fulfill my stem needs as hard and as wildly as I want, all while getting one hell of a cario workout in the process.

Though I'm technically an adult, I consider myself a child with an "adult" side. I attend to my academic obligations well enough, and I can sometimes tell myself to "be brave" and deal with more mature things such as renewing a lease for my dorm or correcting a parking ticket, but I feel that I navigate much of my daily life as a child would. For example, I wear "what I feel like wearing" instead of what others may consider fashionable, though I do try to oblige to the standards of decency (my aesthetic and sensory style does not compel me to dress in a way that would be considered overexposing). I also am not employed (though I am a full-time student taking 17 credit hours), and I spend most of my time not in classes on solidarity leisure activities (though I do get my assignments done and textbooks read).

Thank you so much. I might take that quiz and see what happens. Probably not this week though since the beginning of the month bills were just paid so we are pretty tight til the next check.

That is a very cool way to look at it. It's funny that you mention that because sometimes I feel like I am split between the two and often times find one side of myself comforting the other. It's weird because the emotional mind of the child is on and the intellectual mind of the adult is on at the same time and the adult side soothes the child side. The emotional sides of both can't be together at the same time nor can the intellectual sides of both be active together. But usually when both sides are present it is the adult's intellect and the child's emotion. Sometimes I have the child's intellect and emotion at the same time. I don't think I have ever had the child's intellect and the adult's emotion together though.

I have a very large "kid side." It's gotten me into trouble--but I am amused by it, nevertheless.

At work, I like to howl in the hallways--and meow in my cubicle. People think I'm off the wall. However, people also know that I do my job well--so my job hasn't been seriously threatened in 33 years.

I also bark, howl, and meow on the subways. People move away from me. I do it anyway. I know I could restrain myself--but I don't.

The only time I had a problem was when I was 17. I was drumming on the subway seats. A cop took me off the train. We had a conversation. He realized I was sane. He sent me on my way.

There is risk, though, in making yourself stand out on the subways. People could take it the wrong way.