i still don't know what i want to be when i grow up.
i'm not autistic but understand, sometimes i forget to act like an old man because i'm still the same as i ever been.
I mean, I thought this is just trauma from being neglected and abused by my family during my childhood and my brain coped by regressing to things during that time that made me feel better… but then I have to turn around and do the dishes and make sure I get my emissions test scheduled 😭
It absolutely makes sense. It’s one of the reasons why romantic relationships are so hard to find, because, in my experience, it has seemed that it puts most people off, and usually tends to mostly attract predators.
I totally understand this. Like sometimes I just look at everything around me and wonder how the heck I'm doing all this adult stuff when all I wanna do is take my shoes off and make daisy-chains in my garden.
!!! Some of things i struggle with makes me feel like a child with how frustrated i get. Like why am i an adult struggling to get dressed in the morning 😭
51, and I often refer to women over 35 as “that lady” 🤦🏼♀️ and will see them as grownups, but not myself. When my son was young we weren’t diagnosed and I remember despairing that I felt like a kid amongst the other parents, I didn’t know how to relate to them in conversation. Other adults notice.
Undiagnosed, but I get a fair bit of ‘you don’t act like a guy in his 60s’. I’ve always preferred hanging with younger people, but at my age, you sort of can’t
I feel the same. I think it's a pretty common feeling. I'm 8 years old in certain moments and I have 100 years in other situations. I have some traits of autism, but not a diagnosis. My diagnosis is officially ADHD. I don't know if you know something about it.
I know this feeling all too well and I’m not even officially diagnosed as autistic, I have a suspicion that I might be 🤔🥲 but it feels like time is frozen around you while everyone else is moving forward?💗
I feel continuous. Not that I haven’t learned anything or grown since I was a child, I definitely have, but… I’m still the same Kelly. LFS/parts work in therapy didn’t work for me bc I don’t experience myself in parts. Therapist gave up on that pretty quick. I’m just one me?
I get it. But i only feel childish when NT's point out the fact because of what I'm watching, wearing, organizing it playing with. Otherwise, it's just a normal beautiful fun day!
It happens to all of us. You don’t have to be autistic to feel like a kid and a grown-up at the same time. The part of you that was a kid is still part of you.
THIS!!! It’s exactly how it feels, like a mix of being an adult yet younger than people my age and every adult and teen . I feel both older than and younger than people
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Part adult, part kid, all unsure what the fuck I'm supposed to be doing.
65 year old girl, over here 🤚
Wise child
Born wise tho, a problem!
i'm not autistic but understand, sometimes i forget to act like an old man because i'm still the same as i ever been.
When we see Elon jumping up and down onstage, that makes sense.
I’m 47
My body reminds me that I am 47 tho
I'm 66, and I didn't know this was a thing!
*something adult happens*
Me: what the fuck, why am I being subjected to this I'm just a kid :/