How old do you feel?

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I've heard those on the spectrum seem younger than they really are. But, do you feel younger?

My husband says I am most like a teenager. And, I would say that I still feel like I should have parents... (I'm kind of a mess...) So, maybe I feel 17-19?

Might be weird that I'm married with kids then...

A lot of times i feel like i'm still about 10.

I feel about 16.

I don't think my family, counselors or anyone else I tell this to quite understands it though.

6, 18, and 65.

21 and 85

I sometimes wonder what I'm doing with a husband and kids because I still feel like a teenager sometimes. I certainly do not feel 30... When I'm really upset, I feel like I'm 5 and I want my mom...

I've been thinking about this weird dichotomy over here ----> viewtopic.php?t=285633
It's contradictory for me. Age and the expected social behaviour that comes with it seem to be as removed from my experience as gender and all the crap that comes with that. I'm not fitting in to any of it. In some ways, as I said over in the other thread, I feel very childlike because I still have that sense of ... Interest? Wonder? At very mundane things, as kids do. Piles of leaves, puddles of water, light, smooth grass. I also have very little grasp of an adult hierarchical social image. I never developed that whole desire to be "cool" as a teenager which seems to morph into slightly different forms, yet still remain in normal adults. In many ways I'm still as straight forward as a child would be.
But then at the same time, I've worked technical jobs, jobs taking care of other people, I've travelled, studied, I live independently, I've dealt with serious illness on my own, I manage my own life - all of which are adult traits, or so I'm informed. The therapist is always telling me I'm intelligent and my thinking style and emotional control are actually higher than many people he sees. This I've had to conclude that this normal scale of measuring maturity used by NT society simply does not apply in my case. I operate too differently.

10

Around 11 or 12.

I don't know, I think I don't feel any specific age so I guess I just feel like I'm me

Sometimes, 6; sometimes, 12----sometimes, EIGHTY!!

I am 36 and feel 11 or 12. I am slowly getting older: for years I said I felt like I was 8.

I often feel 15 to 20 years younger than I actually am, which somewhat matches my outside appearance. I don't age at the same rate as others do. But, when I was a teenager, I felt like I was 20 years older than I was age-wise. I did not match up well with how my classmates were thinking/doing at the time. The age roles reversed somewhere during my college years.

It varies like a lot of you said but I would say I'm pretty immature in some ways, I've changed a lot over the last couple years. I feel like I'm just way behind my peers in a lot of ways.

I feel as though I am age 13

So glad I read this. I have only recently, very recently started to realise why I don't 'fit' with all the 'normal' people . One thought that has been in my head for decades (I'm 62 now) is, why do I always feel as if I am younger than everyone, even those in their 20s, even my teenage granddaughter's ?

Not only that, I look so much younger than I am. People who don't know me often think I am in my 40s. In fact as I have got older I seem to be younger. When I was 30 I seemed more like 20, now I am in my 60s I seem 20 years younger in looks and feel probably about 22.