Do you feel younger than your chronological age?

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I suppose for me, it depends on what I'm doing. I have a very messed up foot that supposedly has needed surgery for about 2 years, and I don't have access. Also, I got a TBI two years ago, one of many, and left hemiparesis.

If I'm trying to walk. I hobble about a lot. But, I have an Autism horse, and grooming him has strengthened the left hemiparesis, though not the pain levels.

However, I also vigorously ride my Autism horse, and when I'm mounted, I don't feel a day over 20. But that's only because I am getting my fitness back (after the TBI - took a long time). My Autism horse stands when I mount, and bows to help me slide off without jamming my injured foot, but once I'm on, no problems.

Also, people tend to think I'm ancient when I'm hobbling around. But when I'm riding, twenty & thirty year olds tell me I ride better than them, and ask me to ride and train their horses.

So it pretty much depends in what I'm doing.

Being 30, I feel about 20. I also look about 16, I've been told.

I'm 30 but i feel older sometimes but then i look at my place in life and i'm living like i'm about 16-18

This thread reminds me of this blink 182 song

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in some ways yes and in some ways I was born about 45.

I think I do act and talk younger sometimes and then I can switch and be very clinical and cold sounding, when I am processing stuff through. I don't try to censor myself anymore, I just let whichever aspect out that I feel like at the moment. I do believe this is a developmental disability...because things have taken sooooooooo long to become clear to me which other people seemed to 'get' at like 20 or 25. And I'll have had the same revelation at 35 and be like 'oh', this is how they knew how to handle that situation, or whatever.

I have always wanted to be seen as an adult for as long as I can remember but I have never even got close because I'm behind a few years emotionally, physically I'm a young adult but inside I'm anywhere between 11-14 (it can go to about 8 when I have tantrums in the house because I scream and everything.) And it makes me really frustrated, I just want to be mature and react to things in a way a young adult should but I'm not allowed because my mind won't let me and I have to be childish about everything. My friends are mostly younger than me and I'm more attracted to boys that are a few months-2 years younger than me.
When I was younger I would strive to look like an adult and I was basically obsessed with the idea of being grown up. That's basically impossible when I had explosive tantrums in public until I was in my early teens (now they're less obvious and frequent and it usually consists of me getting teary eyed and being defiant or saying the same thing over and over with an angry voice). I watched tv programmes that were meant for kids a lot younger than me. Played with dolls until I was 14-ish and still do now occasionally. Walk behind people like an obediant little puppy when I'm out and let them lead the way (still do). And a bunch of other things. I sometimes look up to people who are the same age as me as grown ups and see them as being really cool in their grown up high heels and smart clothes, I almost want to be looked after by them I know it sounds crazy but it's true
I've kind of learned to accept it now and will wait patiently until I'm mature enough to call myself an adult mentally and not just chronologically and physically. But for the meantime I'll have to make the most of my childlike personality and say atleast I will stay youthful for longer!

i feel old in the sense that i feel more mature than most my age, or perhaps a better way to put it is concerned with more mature issues, therefore cannot help have a leg up in terms of maturity.

but at the same time, i feel very young. i feel like life started once i stopped "acting" with others... once i started to break off with individuals who and organizations that didn't help my sanity. i feel like that is when i started living. i also feel like i missed childhood in a lot of ways and i make up for it now by not being a typical 33 year old and being very "immature" in a lot of ways.

so really, it depends a lot on the parameters and opinions /definitions of mature/immature, young/old.

As long as I keep my head shaved most people think I'm 10 years younger then I am.
When I'm with my kids people will ask them is that your dad but If I let the gray grow out on the sides they'll say is that your grandfather. Peoples perceptions are weird, and they say we look at thing differently.

But I bike commute to work 2-4 days a week year round (16 miles RT) and ride on week-ends and with having boys 5,10 and 11, I need to be able to keep up with them.

In some ways I feel old, so old but in others I feel young

Like others have said both really. In some ways I am and have far beyond many of my peers to put an age on it is tough. In other ways I am about 16 or so at best.

I've always been more mature for my age, especially as a kid, but i don't think i'll ever feel "grown up". As a kid i never wanted to grow up and as an adult i still look like a teen. I'm also not afraid to embrace my inner child. I still enjoy doing many of the things i did as a kid. But then again, my interests as a kid were pretty boring.

I feel it's inaccurate that most of society gauges maturity on whether or not you do normal "adult" things like getting married and having kids. Even teenagers can do these things, and i actually find most adults extremely irresponsible (not that i find kids/teens any less irresponsible), and yet they feel very grown up.

Really, age is meaningless. It's all a matter of the wisdom you gain from your life, however long you've been living it or however young or old you feel. :)

I also generally feel much younger than my real age (27), and sometimes don't feel like any age at all.

I am the opposite. I feel a lot older (I'm chronogically 30).