Do you still feel like a kid?

bluegrl24ny Posted: Jan 13, 2005 12:36 PM

Do you still feel like a kid?

I ALWAYS feel like I'm still 13 or something, and I'm just playing along in this cool grownup game where I have a husband, nice house, good job, and now a dog Seems kinda silly - I just turned 26 but I swear I still feel like a little kid! It's wierd too, because I think I'm the only who feels like this, and everyone knows how to act all adultish. I almost wish there was some kind of how-to manual on acting your age - because I feel like everyone I know tries to act older than they really are - or maybe I'm just immature and everyone else grew up??? Am I completely nuts, or does anyone else feel like this? Thanks for humoring my random question of the day!

MonkeyLuv Posted: Jan 13, 2005 12:58 PM

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All I can say is WORD! I'm playing dress-up! Make-believe! This is all a meticulously constructed game designed to make me believe that I'm a grown up. Well, I don't feel like one! I feel like I'm 14 and borrowing my older sisters' clothes and shoes!

Part of me is still waiting for study hall.

usuk2004 Posted: Jan 13, 2005 01:06 PM

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I definitely feel like a kid...I love to be silly and have no regard for how a person of my age is supposed to act...

But, I want my cake and I want to eat it too! I'm 28 years old, but I look very young and I have a tiny voice, plus I'm very non confrontational. People think I'm so young all of the time and I fear don't take me seriously. Not a very good position to be in as a press officer. I once had to tell the deputy editor of Talk magazine that my dancers were NOT getting into a bathtub naked whether Tina Brown wanted them to or not!! completely decked out in my jeans, sneakers and pony tail! The other day when I told a colleague that I was 28 she nearly fainted - she thought I was interning or something! She thought I was a baby bride! I know it's only going to get worse when I have kids. And I've said I'm never going to have a 'woman' phase. I'm going to go straight from looking like a little girl to an old woman!!

Anyway, although I feel so young, I know I have tons of experience and when I talk about dance, I know what I'm talkign about, DAMMIT!

I just wish people would take me seriously, while I'm making silly faces!

bluegrl24ny Posted: Jan 13, 2005 01:20 PM

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SO GLAD I'm not the only one!!!!
I too have a baby face and people NEVER believe me when I tell them I'm 26 and married! I'm also non-confrontational, unless absolutely necessary as a last resort! On top of that, I'm a petite 5'4, so being short, looking young, and a pacifist at heart - I'm alwasy afraid that no one takes me seriously either... ARGH - oh well, I'll continue playing my grown-up game until someone finds me out

MonkeyLuv Posted: Jan 13, 2005 01:23 PM

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OMG me too, I'm 5'1' and very tiny so everyone automatically assumes I'm like 16 or something! But being this small my whole life caused me to become fairly outspoken.

I actually go out of the way to NOT wear sneakers in public because I want people to think I'm older and take me seriously!!

Jax430 Posted: Jan 13, 2005 01:28 PM

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I totally feel like a kid! I think I'm playing house or something. I feel like I'm trapped between childhood and adulthood. DH and I are really silly together and can be immature, and I love it!

I also look very young. People are always shocked to hear that i'm 25 and married!!

jantany26 Posted: Jan 13, 2005 01:31 PM

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I have always felt younger that what i'm actually are. I'm 28 but i feel 19 eventhought i have a kid now, i still feel young.

luvsbob4603 Posted: Jan 13, 2005 01:32 PM

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I feel like a kid all the time myself! i am 35 and people think i am 24 which i find to be a compliment, but i feel like i am 13.

xjulietx Posted: Jan 13, 2005 02:30 PM

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I still feel like a kid. And I think a lot of people see me as very young too. I have been with my company for 5 years and no one can believe it.

I also act young and am the younger sibling so I think that affects the way I am viewed. I have noticed that friends who are the same age but are the older sibling sometimes appear older than their peers.

I also think I come across young because I lived at home with my parents after college. I am nonconfrontational and more funloving than business-like

Jax430 Posted: Jan 13, 2005 02:31 PM

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Posted by xjulietx

I still feel like a kid. And I think a lot of people see me as very young too. I have been with my company for 5 years and no one can believe it.

I also act young and am the younger sibling so I think that affects the way I am viewed. I have noticed that friends who are the same age but are the older sibling sometimes appear older than their peers.

I also think I come across young because I lived at home with my parents after college. I am nonconfrontational and more funloving than business-like

You make a good point. I'm the younger sibling by 10 1/2 years, so I have always been babied. Also, I lived with my parents after I graduated college until I got married in June. I am also very nonconfontational!

nov04LIbride Posted: Jan 13, 2005 02:36 PM

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I still feel like a kid, even though I went to boarding school at 13, then went away to college, so was on my own for a while (26 now). I still have the tendency to call my mom with problems or when I don't feel well! And I SO do not feel at all ready to be responsible for kids! Or even a dog!

tourist Posted: Jan 13, 2005 02:42 PM

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Posted by usuk2004

And I've said I'm never going to have a 'woman' phase. I'm going to go straight from looking like a little girl to an old woman!!

That's exactly how I feel. Idont' thik I look a younfg a some of you, but I'm not sure how other peopel see me. I am heavy, which usually makes peopel sem older, bt i thikn it gves me a baby face, and I stil break out 7 anever feel 'put together' like other women I see on the train.

And besides how I look , I dodn't 'feel ' like an adult. I am very indecisive & I feel like to be an adult, I'd have to be able to make decisions without always waiting for other people's opinion, which I am SO not good at.

wc0143 Posted: Jan 13, 2005 02:43 PM

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Not at all ...

btrflygrl Posted: Jan 13, 2005 03:34 PM

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I SO feel that way!!! I still don't feel like a grown up!! Neither does DH (especially with his video games) and it's so funny to think of our friends having kids!!! Oy vey!

Crismicka Posted: Jan 13, 2005 04:35 PM

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I teach 4th grade and LOVE to be one of the kids! I believe you're only as old as you feel!

lvdolphins Posted: Jan 13, 2005 05:32 PM

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I am so glad others feel this way! I dont feel my age and I guess thats great. I still get proofed @ bars (shhh dont tell anyone..Im gonna be 30 in May )
When people find out I'm married, and married 5 years they are like wow, you got married young ( I was 24).

I work with 2 year olds. I dont act 2 but I defintiley feel younger than I am.

Robeymuse Posted: Jan 13, 2005 05:37 PM

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Absolutely! People always tell me...but I thought you were 19 after I tell them I will be 27. Even our priest told me I was too young to get married...until I told him how old I was. I do feel like I am playing house. I look at DH and can't believe he is 32...I guess I just thought I would feel older once we got to this age...and I don't...at all.

kbeana24 Posted: Jan 13, 2005 06:02 PM

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I feel like I should be about 16. Even though I am older than the other girls i my office by 2-3 years, I still feel like they act older, more confident and more argumentative.

JimmysBride Posted: Jan 13, 2005 06:37 PM

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This is exactly why I think I have no business having a kid!! I still am a kid!!! I feel like I'm school will be starting up again any day now and my 'vacation' of playing house and wife will be over!! DH is always telling me I need to 'grow up' (he's only 31 - yeah like he's some old fart) and I say never! Then I start singing the Toys r us song...

Oh lordy lordy... my poor child!

palebride Posted: Jan 13, 2005 07:03 PM

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I have to agree with this! I'll be 30 in November, and people think I'm an 8th grader, not an 8th grade teacher!!!
And I have to say - I feel like i'm still so young.....which is probably why it's so hard for me to turn 30 this year...i can't accept the fact that I could be entering that decade.....