Is playing video at my age lame?

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My parents be asking me "you still video playing games?", haven't you outgrown that? But there's plenty of grown people that play games that's way older than me and im just 19. I don't play like I used to but it is something that I still enjoy doing. On the other hand I notice that when I walk into a game store the older guys or teenagers seem kinda odd or geeky.They don't exactly look the coolest and sometimes I have anxiety about going cuz I don't want any I know to see me and think im a nerd or lame. The average person my age is into females and partying.

Heck no, it's not lame. The average gamer is 20-30. Chances are, some of those people that are into girls and partying are actually into girls, partying, and gaming.

Im a 20 year old girl gamer so there we go, older than you and a girl
There's nothing wrong with gaming, people don't know what they are missing out.
There are always going to be stereotypes but there are always going to be people who break the stereotypes as well and it doesn't matter which of those you are as long as you enjoy it.

Maybe it is a covert way of saying that you are spending too much time on gaming?

You can't let what other people think of certain activities you like define how you think of yourself. If you enjoy video games who cares what other people think. Constantly feeling self-conscious about the things you enjoy is just going to make your life miserable.

If video game time is interfering with other things in your life then that may be a different story. Some gamers are lame only because they put their gaming before everything else in their life ( <cough> WOW addicts ).

Depends on if you're an addict. If you are, then your parents are worried you're wasting your life.

If not, it just means they have a very untrue stereotype about gamers being children in their head.

MAN I wish I had the exact statistic, but the average player of video games, according to a recent news program was like 32yo!! !!

People I know who spend the most time on video games: me, my girlfriend, my friend Duncan and my brother. Aged 27, 21, 26 and 30 respectively. I don't think there's any problem with that. Of course, if the games are causing other problems in your life, that's another matter.

Plenty of adults play video games. It's not weird, and it's not Aspie-specific.

I'm just playing a free online game... and some (totally non-autistic) friends have already started too.

Besides, my mother is more than twice my age and still occasionally plays video games for fun.

plenty of nt gamers out there who are pretty much double or even triple the 'acceptable' ages. :-p

There's no difference between gaming and reading/listening to music/watching films in terms of non productive time wasting, except you can play games on a much more interactive level, that includes interacting with other people.

29 year old girl gamer here. I often wonder if I'll look funny at 90 playing video games. But I don't really care. I'll always be a gamer. It makes me happy.

I'm hoping to be able to get Rockband soon. <_< And yes, I have a WoW account, but I'm not an addict. I'm actually an old EQ addict. LOL

I'm 19 and I play video games. My fiance is 24 and he plays video games, too. Don't worry about what your parents think. Just keep doing what you like doing if it makes you happy.

Your right Brandon-J, it is kind of geeky, when you see men in their late 20's or even in their 30's hanging out a game stores, I have heard that men seem to have delayed their adulthood, by not taking on any responsibilities, such as moving out of their parents house in their early 20's, this seem to have been a trend for a lot of gen X guys. Men use to have a career and had a mortgaged house by the time they reached 25, having finished their college by 21 or 22, this would have been in the early 1960's, but now men want to be and act like children well into their 30's, leaching off their mom and dad.