How old do you feel?

[LazyHermitCrab]

I'm 22 but it's hard for me to relate to people around my age. I get along better with people overall in their late 30s or so. I like cartoons and videogames and stuff, so kids like me usually, but the other "stuff" i don't understand/find boring/etc which is interesting to the around in the 20s year olds... Anyway similar to the title, how old do you feel mentally?

 

[ImNotMyIllness]

I think and feel like I'm in the 18-24 age bracket. But, I'm older than that.

 

[LoyalXenite]

I am the same, i have difficulty fitting in with people my own age, always have. Technically i am almost 23, sometimes i feel like im 12 years old again and sometimes i feel as though i've lived hundreds of years.

 

[Klonoa]

Are you me?

You totally sound like me. My nephews and nieces LOVE me 'cause I love videogames and cartoons.

I also absolutely LOVE old films, especially cult things like Ed Wood's films, It conquered the world, Evil Dead, italian "spaghetti" westerns, I can't relate to newer stuff (with few exceptions).

Although I do feel old when my nephews and nieces ask me what's a Captain N, and who's Michael Jackson.

;_;

 

[Saga]

I feel like I relate a lot better to people who are just a little bit older than me. I'm almost 18, so say around 22-23. c:

 

[Englishman]

I feel about 16.

 

[mixedupgirl]

A few years back when I lived in a big black hole called depression I felt like an 80 year old woman and you would've thought it with how bad my memory was....but luckily I crawled out of it eventually and got better and since having my daughter I feel about 23 now (I'm nearly 28) and act like a teenager sometimes with my crazy dancing and silly voices to entertain her. :bigsmile:

And like you guys my nephew and niece love me too cos I always create a fun atmosphere when they are here, last week we created a mini band in my daughters bedroom and we were dancing and playing with instruments and singing to music that was playing from my ipod, it was so much fun and so much better then just seeing them sat watching t.v. :applause:

 

[Barrier]

Older than I am cause of all the **** I went through. Younger in terms of 'normal' life experiences. It doesn't fit me.

 

[Shenmue]

Sometimes I feel like this

And sometimes I feel like that

 

[EscapeArtist]

^ Lol good way to put it.

Cept for me i'd replace the first one with a kid or young teenager.

Sometimes I feel like i'm like 8, other times I feel like I'm 15. I used to feel like a cynical old man all the time. Yet I don't get along with people my age (young 20s) because they feel too young ! I get along better with people from 25-30. err so in conclusion i feel every age except my age

 

[Kiwong]

In body probably younger than my 50 years

In my mind I feel like I am a million years old.

 

[mikebird]

Such a great thread!

I think physical / body age and the mental age aren't tightly related. What matters is the era you started and what we have now. I didn't grow up with siblings; only parents of retired grandparent age 50 and brothers age 30 which I had trouble relating to. Generations: my parents exactly the age of The Queen of England, and brothers the age of Prince Charles and his siblings.

A very important friend for a few years was 40 when I was 30. After tragedy in life and rehab, he rebuilt a new business which he had before, and got married. Won't speak again. He was a social conduit like many people I've needed.

I am scared of younger people. All the way through school, I saw anyone older as simple and stupid. Every girlfriend has been 4 years younger.

I'm approaching 40, and quite surprised I'm physically fit, quick, with a verve which people around in town or supermarket are melancholy, extremely slow, meandering, with no zest. I feel about 25, and dearly wish I'd been in the Army.

I do wish I could start again in the 1980s.

My Dad's only topic has always been: how terrible it feels to be old
Maybe my one remaining bro is feeling that. I might be worse, but I never give up and will never want to retire, but I have no choice, when nobody will employ me

 

[this_portrait]

Hard to tell, really. I will say I don't feel my age, though (23). I'm sort of starting out in the age range where most 20somethings are beginning to mature out of the wild and crazy phase they spent their college years in and into the professional world.

I feel older in the sense that I don't party or go to bars/clubs, waste as much time on social media, and don't participate in hookups. I feel younger because I've been acting more on a whim these days, and I didn't get to live my teens and college days like a normal person.

 

[gustavofring]

Sometimes when I feel tired I feel 80 but I am only 27.

Thinking of memories from early childhood makes me feel ancient as well. Like late eighties, early 90's. That seems incredibly long ago, especially if you see pictures or hear music that was popular at that time.

 

[cobalt_bluester]

I'm 42 and feel about my age I guess!

 

[FeartheGreat]

As a 23 turning 24, I guess I would probably say I feel like I'm still in my teen years (14-17). Gaming is in my blood and will never go away. I don't have a job not because I don't want one, but more becuse of my SA. I get teased constantly by 15 and 18 year old cousins that I use to entertain with my video games now because I don't act my age. They constantly make me remember that I'm suppost to be doing and having things that I don't. But I don't really take it to heart anymore because I have come to terms with who I am. The only thing I need to change though is getting a job... so I can buy MORE games!

 

[laure15]

I never feel old. I feel like a 16 years old, and I even sound like one literally. I'm a late bloomer so I haven't gone through the "rites of passage" that most of my peers went through.

 

[Graeme1988]

I never feel old. I feel like a 16 years old, and I even sound like one literally. I'm a late bloomer so I haven't gone through the "rites of passage" that most of my peers went through.

Aye, ah can relate there, laure. The whole "rites of passage" thing, anyway. Other than that am a miserable, jaded eejit who isnae aw that mature fur his age! :bigsmile:

 

[SilentAndShy]

I'm 26 atm.

My body says I feel 30 with my double chin emerging and my belly growing.
My mind with my SA feels about 23.

OP - Be happy you're 22, you've time on your side

 

[Hellhound]

I feel like something between 7 - 16, depending on the circumstances. Other times, it doesn't feel like I have an age.