Your Mental/Emotional Age

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When I was a kid I found that I got along better with adults because they listened to me and thought I was interesting. Other kids had lame interests, most of the time.

Now that I'm an adult myself I am connecting more easily with children than people my own age! I think cuz my development got halted somewhere

So I'd say my mental/emotional age is somewhere around 15. How about everyone else?

Me too! I would only talk to the adults. My mom tells me stories of running up to adults in grocery stores and asking things like "Do you like computers? I love them", or saying "I like pineapples but I hate the spiny shell" when someone grabbed a pineapple.
Random discussions with adults, gotta love them.

When I was physically 5, Mental age of 11 emotional age of 3
Now that I am 16 I have a mental age of 23 (higher?) and emotional age of ..hmm.. 12 maybe

I'm not sure, however, when I was younger, I used to talk to teachers more, sometims, would start talking with adults. However, now, sometimes, I tend to be able to relate more with little kids, guess I got stuck somewhere around the age where I still enjoy to play with legos. However, at school, I'll talk to adults that I know sometimes, and for the rest be non-talkative, unless it's math. There, I enjoy giving out the answer, which brings me trouble sometimes, however, I sometimes really can't control myself. About emotional age, I'm not sure. When I was little, people tended to tell me that I was very mature for my age, now sometimes they tell me that I'm unmature in comparation with my classmates.

Why is it that an autistic's mental/emotional age change like that? Does something stop developing or something?

Out of curiosity (and boredom), I looked up some online tests to determine my "true" age. The first one told me I was 42, the next one said I was 17, and the last one, a mere 6 months old.

I feel 50 some days. I also feel about 15 at the same time. Maybe the 42 & 17 results weren't so far off from the truth. I'd like to think I'm more sophisticated than a 6 month old though.

Really young kids give me weird looks, like they know I'm different. It's unnerving, they just... stare.

I get along really well with my 11 and 13 year old cousins and often go to their house just to hang out.

Most people that I've met around my age are all about drinking, parties, sex, and drugs, so I struggle to find common interests with them.

I really enjoy my time at the yearly euchre tournament at my gramma's church, where I'm the youngest person and most of the rest are 20+ years older.

My paradoxical feelings towards my age have plagued me all my life as it seems I don't really fit in anywhere.

Both my sister and I have Diagnosed Aspergers Syndrome and my sister especially used to associate with adults more than people her own age. I used to gel and get along with adults and the older kids at school and high school even now I associate with people older than me.

19 or 22 is what I feel like. I sure don't look like how I feel.

Mental age, probably in the 30s sometimes. Emotional age, definitely in the teenager stage. Sometimes in the older pre-teen stage.

I feel that I'm a 16 year old of the 60s, and I'm making up, for my lost adolescence, that I've never had.

18. I far prefer the company of adults than that of my peers, and I'm a lot more mature than most people of my age seem to be.

I just took a test and it said my Mental Age is 42.