Emotionally, I generally feel around 16 years old. When I'm frustrated I feel like a 6 year-old (and get told I am acting like one ). Socially I'm not a teenager at all even but I can't assign a value to it. I guess that part's normal though..
I don't think I have ever been older than seventeen, really. Sometimes I look in the mirror and wonder who the hell that old lady in the mirror is. Then I recognize my mother looking back at me and shudder a bit.
but one week before I ever heard about Asperger's Syndrome, I was skipping down the hall at work wondering why the other old ladies at work never included me in their gab fests and wondering why I never seemed to have 'grown up.'
Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 1,398
26 Apr 2010, 1:06 am
Weird flash back, I remember when I was fourteen someone I knew told me I thought like an old man when they heard me explain my dilemma with recess. Evidently I've been in retrograde since, I have the world view of a 10 year old.
Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 2,287 Location: Freie Stadt Danzig
26 Apr 2010, 6:57 am
I feel emotionally about 13.
But when I see people in my age who behave like brainless idiots, their stupid problems and parties, their lack of logic and practical sense, I feel 30. And it's easier for me to talk with people who are about 30. Excluding husband/wife-and-children topics.
I think we have this, because we have higher IQ and lower EQ than NTs. So we are logical and practical, we have great knowledge, but our emotions stopped at kid age.
Joined: 4 Jul 2008 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 500
26 Apr 2010, 7:54 am
Intellectually, I definitely feel older than others my age. I am chronologically fifteen.
Emotionally...eh. I find myself unable to see the connection between emotion and age. How do one's emotions change as they get older? I don't remember my youth, so I've not got much to compare with.
Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Age: 38 Gender: Female Posts: 2,196 Location: la la land
26 Apr 2010, 12:18 pm
Chronological age: 22
Physical Age: I'm very young looking, and have gotten anywhere from 14-20.
Emotional Age: 13-14.
Intellectual Age: have gotten anywhere from 25-35...which explains why I tend to have many older friends.
_________________ Given a “tentative” diagnosis as a child as I needed services at school for what was later correctly discovered to be a major anxiety disorder.
This misdiagnosis caused me significant stress, which lessened upon finding out the truth about myself from my current and past long-term therapists - that I am an anxious and highly sensitive person but do not have an autism spectrum disorder.
My diagnoses - social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I feel like I'm 12. Yet, at the same time, I feel like an eighty year old grandma. So weird to look so young and feel so...archaic. But, hey, you're not alone.
Joined: 14 Dec 2009 Age: 34 Gender: Male Posts: 2,577 Location: Scotland
26 Apr 2010, 6:34 pm
Michael_Stuart wrote:
Intellectually, I definitely feel older than others my age. I am chronologically fifteen.
Emotionally...eh. I find myself unable to see the connection between emotion and age. How do one's emotions change as they get older? I don't remember my youth, so I've not got much to compare with.
Joined: 19 Mar 2010 Age: 28 Gender: Male Posts: 53
26 Apr 2010, 7:00 pm
i have the mental age of a 29 year old, physiclly 12 and emotion age is around 18, only problem is its proven that 14- 20 is when you usually suffer the most depression and i have quite bad deppression......