Do you FEEL like NTs are all somehow older than you?

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Sometimes, I get this same impression.

I agree with you Qawer, I think I would be about ready to take on starting high school about now yet I graduated 4 years ago, I always felt like a little kid since about grade 6 or 7. I wonder if it ever gets better aswell, the kids I went to school with have matured so much and meny are starting families, have nice cars, moving out, starting careers etc. I am still the same person I was 12-15 years ago and doing similar activites like artwork, playing with my hobbies, getting really excited about things kids and teens would etc., basicly I am a 10-14 yearold with 23 years of life experence and that intense experence makes it all even werider.

I really wonder what life will be like when I am 40, 50 or 60. I feel werid enough already and I can usually pass for a teenager looks wise, what happens when a middle aged adult ditches the party and plays in the sandbox with the kids for instance, these are the types of things I want to to, feels natural to do, I have been told they are not things your suppost to do at my age and therefore not really OK. I hope the aspie always looking younger thing is true!

You can play in the sand pit when all the children have gone to bed.

Yes, all the time. I feel like a kid compared to all of the other adults around me, with the exception of a few people. I'm one of those people who look young for their age. I will be 40 in February but people think I'm 10 years younger, which makes work difficult sometimes...people assume I have a lot less experience than I do and I get treated as such.

I feel like I'm about 16 inside and that people perceive me to be that age too, and I act it too I think. Not in all aspects - for instance I deliberately lowered my voice in my late 20s - but in general, I just don't feel grownup.

No, I internalize everything. I just feel that people don't take me seriously. Maybe it's because I'm a woman.

When I was a child I considered myself more mature because I was more thoughtful and more intelligent than my peers. Now that I'm in university people are roughly as intelligent as I am, but they socially they are far ahead of me. Specifically their interests are becoming 'adult' interests, whereas mine haven't changed much in the past 8 years, and they're capable of living far more independent than I am.
So I went from feeling older to feeling younger over the course of adolescence.