Do you feel younger on the inside or is that weird?

[Scootaloodle 1,623]

I’m 25 and people must think of me now as an official adult or something: as when I buy stuff that’s age restricted even at places no body recognizes me I don’t get ID very often. And I’ve heard people call me an ‘adult’ or ‘man’.

 

It always feels a bit weird to be called an adult: because I don’t feel older than maybe 14 or so at all inside (although I don't have a defante age I feel like). And despite the beard and all the puberty stuff that happened to me I don’t look in the mirror and see an adult staring back. My brain so to speak calls me a rotten liar when I try to convince it I’m now that age that I’m adult (well sort of)

 

Is that normal? Does anyone else ever feel like that?

Edited November 29, 2013 by Asherdangerdash

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I think I've heard it put this way: We only masquerade as a adults because it's what society expects of us.

 

Walt Disney also said that adults were just children grown up.

 

So, yeah. It's good to keep your inner child alive and keep that careless innocence alive in some way.  

[Malinter 3,064]

As a rule of thumb. "Old" is always someone 10 years older than you. "Young" is always someone 10 years younger.

[Shanks 10,816]

It depends sometimes I feel like an adult and sometimes I feel like a child and whether or not that is a good thing depends on the situation. When I watch cartoon or play video games unless it is anything explicit or somewhat suggestive I tend to feel like back when I was a kid and things were much simpler. I feel like an adult at work because my job entails a lot of responsibility and I do have to rise to the occasion but when I get overwhelmed which is far too often for my taste I am reminded of all the dark times in my younger years when I struggled to make sense of a world around me which pressured me to conform to it.

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

I feel that way, I feel like I'm a bit younger then I am. Though because I look younger then I am, I don't have a problem with it. I guess I look my age, though I do feel younger on the inside and I think that's normal. Since age is just a state of mind.

 

There are plenty of people that feel this way, like I said age is just a state of mind.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Age is just a state of mind, which is rightfully so. I feel like a child even though I have grown up far from that but, it's hard for me to be used to who I am if the child inside of me is screaming inside to tell me to have some fun. I don't think about it too much but, when I do I feel like I'm younger on the inside.

[Red Diamond 549]

I feel that as well, but I feel older.

 

I turn 16 on April 5th, but my mental age is 42 years old, and yes, you can actually measure that

[Moonlight 7,287]

Sounds normal to me.

 

Personally, I feel older on the inside and people always mistake me as older than I actually am. 

[~Master~ Button Mash 2,307]

Oh that sounds so much like me. Even though I'm 20, I still don't feel ready to do a lot of the things I'm supposed to be doing right now - dating, being independent, etc. I mean I do those things (or…try), but I still don't feel ready.

 

Maybe I'm just a late bloomer IDK...