This post by Girl’s Gone Child got us thinking:
My mother tells me we all have an age inside of us. Some of us are born with little old men in our souls or little old women or infants or toddlers. [My son] was born one hundred and two but I am thirteen. I turned thirteen and seventeen years later, here I am: confused by the appearance of my face without braces, my bedstand without Sassy magazine.
Do you feel your own age? Or is there a little old lady (or man) trapped inside of you?
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I’m a realist and I don’t deny who I am or what actual age I have. Sure, its wise to think young, but the trap is being something you’re not and making a fool of yourself
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80 – people say that I act and think the same as my grandmothers.
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rose / 834 posts
I feel about 18 but i think its just bc people mistake me for a teen most of the time
rose / 937 posts
I continuously do not feel at university age – I’d probably say I feel like I should still be 16 or 17. I know that since high school I’ve sometimes actually (and not exaggerating or lying) forgotten that I was actually a year older than I was. I think it takes me about a year to come to grips with the fact that I’m that year older, and then once I feel sort of like that age I’m yet another year older. I just can’t keep up.
rose / 948 posts
I appear to be 16-17 but I really am 22. However, I feel like I’m in my late-20′s
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Depends. Sometimes I feel younger sometimes older sometimes my own age. When I go to college and see younger people laughing and slacking off I feel like a serious, old-ass. A serious old ass who’s on the Dean’s list every semester but still. When I’m at home goofing off with my boyfriend, who is three years my junior, I feel almost like a teenager.
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When I’m with my boyfriend who is five years older than me, I feel like I’m about 16. He is 25 and claims he is old now… pffft. Otherwise, with people my own age, I tend to feel somewhat older.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m eighteen – like I’m not ready to grow up and such, but at other times I get annoyed when people slack off and get drunk and do “typical teenage things”.
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17. I think in my mind I always pictured the world would just end after I graduated high school. Sometimes I think I just never grew mentally past that point. A lot of people tell me I look around 20-21, but I’m 19.
I think the age people think I am vs the age I am vs the way I really am mentally gets kind of crazy.
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I’m turning 17 this month. I’m in my third semester of college, I have a good (albeit unconventional) job, and most of my friends are older. I usually pass for 22-ish.
Still? I feel pretty immature. There are parts of me that are 8 and parts of me that are 80. If you calculated it all, you’d probably be damn close to my biological age.
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I often feel (almost) 21 going on 49.
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I am 24 really, but inside of me I’m easily 8 going on 80. I’m overly responsible and caring like a grandmother, but I am also giggly and silly like a child. Oh dear.
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I think I’m 33 chronologically. I keep letting myself forget that and will say I’ve turned 30 a few times. Most of the time I feel like I’m about 17…but when I was 17, I felt like I was supposed to be 30 something. I’m a little mixed up and feel as though I’m like the guy who aged backward. I don’t look my age. The oldest gues I have gotten is 26 and that was from someone who knew I had an 11 year old son at the time. My son is now almost 13 and is taller than me. My 11.5 year old daughter could pass for my sister. My 10 year old daughter is about the only one who actually passes for my kid… And people think she’s 8.
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I’m 24 but feel as if I’m in my 40′s.
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Physically, it depends on the day I have. The norm is feeling quite like a little old decrepit lady.
Emotionally/mentally, I have always been ancient.
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I’ll be 25 this year and I don’t feel ANY different than I did when I was 18.