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mental age
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when i was a kid, i always felt grown up.
now i'm an adult i feel like i'm a kid... years younger than i am.
most people i know behave and think etc like the age they actually are.
not sure why i don't exactly.
and when i'm with other people i always act like the cute kid.
so, i rekon i have the mental age of about a 12/13 year old.
does anybody else feel like this? or is it just me? ~ how old do you rekon you are mentally?
now i'm an adult i feel like i'm a kid... years younger than i am.
most people i know behave and think etc like the age they actually are.
not sure why i don't exactly.
and when i'm with other people i always act like the cute kid.
so, i rekon i have the mental age of about a 12/13 year old.
does anybody else feel like this? or is it just me? ~ how old do you rekon you are mentally?
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I will still wear my baggypants and skate when I'm sitting in the office or lab one day and will still do things like betting with a few friends if I can open that girls bra in one hand motion.
(the trick is, to talk the girl up, tell her you have a bet running and promise her 50% if she lets you open it), and other infantile crap, because it's funny
Can't wait to finish uni and enter the world of work.
But then when I think about it, I've lived away from home ever since I was 17, I've always sorted out my own accomodation and every job I've had has been better (career wise and money wise) than the previous one, I'm a lot wiser about relationships now through experience, and in the last year I've moved to a totally new place off my own initiative where I didn't know a soul and made myself happy.
You need a bit of maturity behind you to do all that, so maybe I don't give myself the credit I deserve.
Who knows.
Tsk, and here I was about to try and drag you out for a cheeky pint of ale. Fuddy duddy :grump:
I can be very immature or fairly mature [I won't say very mature as that is a bare-faced lie]. Depends who I'm with, what situation I'm dealing with, what day of the week it is etc.
Rant warning?
But i've always been emotionally immature. Not the negative immaturity, just that I am verryy clingy (although I never show this quality, making me very insecure and doubtful over what to say) and extremely paranoid. With the past I have that's understandable. My inexperience, loneliness and introversion holds me bakc and prevents me from getting any experience... But it just sucks now that when I try, it doesn't work out. I give it my all, I find myself in full exposure and I show every ounce of love i can find, and it doesn't work... Cheats anyone?
Self-pity, out
I think the reason is that i have a problem with intimacy. I still feel like a 12-year old insecure and innocent boy sometimes.
Cheeky lunchtime pints still win. You just won't catch me shimmying away in World Headquarters every weekend:p
but mentally i feel about 17/18?
I think its because when I was 17/18/19 i was chronically shy, had massive self confidence/self esteem issues and basically hated myself, i was in a long term relationship and really because of my issues missed out on seeing my friends all time, playing the field with different lads (being single basically) going out all the time etc.
Now (from the age of about 20) im totally different so i think im catching up on lost time. a lot of my friends are a little bit younger than me and they always say they dont think of me as 22, they think of me as 19 same age as them.
Saying that though I've got a few friends who are 17/18 and sometimes they annoy me and i can tell how immature they are, so I suppose i must be mature in a way
Real, grown up responsibilities :hyper:
Emotionally I don't really think I've changed a huge amount from when I was 18 and I still love listening to the stuff I was listening to at 15.