Anyone Feel Immature for Their Age?

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"Anyone feel immature for their age"? All the time! I'm well into my thirties, and still haven't taken on the responsibilities most people have by now. Part of me feels guilty, but part of me suspects very strongly that due to my neurology I'm not capable of taking on too much anyway. Whilst my situation's not ideal, it's not the end of the world, either.

Personally, I find my maturity depends on the situation. In some aspects I can be far more mature than my age, while others far younger.

In the youngest aspects I still appreciated childlike and even some immature things, but then again judging from the context of many TV shows like Saturday Night Live, that isn't all too uncommon.

I think the only place where real lower maturity level kicks in somewhere "applicable" is when in the heat of the moment I can't really think rationally about the fact that someone else isn't thinking rationally, or that someone else is angry and I should not let their actions bother me because of that. While I'm getting far better at it, this is still a problem.

I really think this aspect has to due with the fact that I have trouble seeing anger and sadness as similar. Thus for people feeling angry, I have to sympathize rationally, while for people feeling sad I can easily sympathize emotionally.

For some reason anger is the one emotion that perplexes me, and not because I don't have it, but because it seems every single person reacts to their own anger differently, and if they let it influence their judgment, they do so differently.

I'm a 19 year old female college student .. acedemically, intelligent... socially/emotionally, I find the concept of having the brain of a 10 year old boy conforting... I really am just like a 10 year old boy

Charlie

Well, sometimes I do feel like I'm immature for my age. It doesn't help that my mom and sister believe I have the emotional maturity of a 13 or 14 year old.

I look around at my life at times, and realize that I don't live like other 30-somethings! They have SUVs, spouses, solid careers, credit cards, mortgages, investment portfolios (or at least a 401k). If they're single they live in their own apartment and sleep in at least a full-sized bed, and they have real careers and real responsibilities.

As for me, I live with colleged-age roommates. I still go to work in a uniform and do entry-level work even though I did very well in college for the most part. Anyone looking at my room would conclude I was at least ten years younger than I am except that my furniture's blander.
I haven't started investing yet because I live on such a small income (it hasn't changed much over the last decade). It's been three years, at least, since I dated anyone, and I am clueless about how to jumpstart my social life. For now it is entirely online. I get along with the house cat better than I get along with most people.

Although I'm pretty content with my life, I still feel like I'm so far beneath my capabilities, as if I know I can do better but don't know what's holding me back. It's embarrassing. I'm afraid to change jobs or living situations because of my awkwardness in handling everyday situations. I'm afraid of screwing up and becoming destitute as a result. Can anyone here relate to this fear?

I feel intellectually mature.

Emotionally I feel like I just hit my teens. I suppose it doesn't help that I look younger than my age so I tend to react to people thinking I am. I don't feel like an adults equal. I feel immature like I'm a kid that's accidently wondered in to the teachers lounge and can't find the door out.

As for physically, well I live with my mum, and I don't work. So that probably doesn't help with the not feeling like an adults equal. It's not likely to change anytime soon since I dropped out of school before I could get any exams and I have agorophobia and social phobia.

NO PROBLEM - f**k the world! I do as I like, atvfifty i often feel as a fourtten year old, ie crave women which i KNOW i will never get, interested in hobbies, books etc and hope for the future.

we should all get together and have fun!

Definitely. I often wonder when I will feel like a grown-up. Even in my own house, I feel like a little kid. (I am 50, btw.) I have other people tell me that I seem a lot younger than I am, and not because of my looks, but because of how I act. In some ways, I really enjoy being kind of childlike--I enjoy things that other people my age refuse to allow themselves to enjoy.

Sure can. I'm living in share accommodation, have nothing saved up (just blew every last cent on an overseas trip), and my entry-level job's been eroded from 4-5 days a week down to two or three. And my fiancée's in a near-identical situation, but with the additional burden of various health problems. Are we ever going to get the chance to live properly? I don't know.

Yes, i feel very frustrated at my age (34). My frustrations stem from my lack of dating "experience". While all my friends have had numerous boyfriends, married or married with kids, I seem to be going backwards....

To hide my lack of experience, I throw myself into my career and my travels.

I still feel like I'm somewhere around age 25, socially. I intend to stay there if I can, because I don't want to let myself act like an 'old fart', ever. I'm perfectly happy being a little immature.

My psyche feels like that of a 10 year old.

I am very immature for a 30 year old. Even though intelligence make me interested in the medical stuff,(which is why I am going to school to study histology, the study of tissues in the body.)
Everything else, I am very immature, but i do not think of it that way. To everyone else I may be, but to me there is no such thing as age appropriate activities when it comes to someone's interests,mannerisms, or feelings.The only thing I see that should be considered and counted for age appropriate is anything that is dangerous,sexual related, or 'adult related provocative activities" where I believe under 18 is too young for that stuff.
The activities that I am interested in(which are considered by society as immature and inappropriate)is with playing with toys(educational math toys, and even baby toys) and playing with play kitchens where I feed my stuffed animals. To me my stuffed animals are the only family I have because I am not capable of having relationships because of my Asperger's, so my stuffed animals are my family(and they need to eat too.) I love advanced math books and crossword puzzles and computers and other college level and adult level academic activities, I do these things like I am playing school. I have a school desk and everything. I have my room decorated with Winnie-the-pooh things even though I only like the Winnie the pooh because it makes my room like a toddlers room.
Since I am child-like in nature and I am emotionally a 3 year old, sex and relationships are out of the question because I have too much of a child-like innocence that those things bother me too much and when I am asked by doctors about that subject, I tell them it feels too perverted for me and that I am too young,even though I am 30 and will always be "too young".
The way I carry myself is very child-like. So basically I am a 3-4 year old with the intelligence of a genius 100 year old, with a body of a 14 year old, who happens to be really 30.

I feel immature, sometimes act immature and look young for my age.

I turned 62 a few months ago and am just now learning how wonderful it is to be a human child. I look forward to what lays ahead on this journey we are challenged to undertake.

Guilty of excessive video game playing, running through sprinklers, playing on the slip-n-slide, riding a skateboard, watching too many cartoons, building snowmen, playing with legos, and drawing with chalk on the sidewalks.

Grown-ups are boring.

God forbid I should ever become one of them.

I just got back from swinging at the playground.