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⌈ Secret Post #5637 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

You are clearly still in your teens, once you get a bit older you'll realize that nobody feels like an adult. We all hit about 15 and then just got really good at covering it is all.

[(Anonymous)]

Hah I wish. No, I grew out of kids media years ago.

[(Anonymous)]

I've started feeling like an adult after befriending some adults in their late teens and early 20s, and realizing how vastly different our frame of reference is. They pitched Squid Game to me by comparing it to Dangan Ronpa, Hunger Games came out so early in their childhood, it's not even on their radar. They talk about the media I've enjoyed in my mid-20s as their nostalgic early childhood.

I've been unable to relate to teenage characters in the media ever since. Every day I'm reminded I'm just not like these kids.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - can relate. But I do feel like I am just a slightly older and more mature child compared to them. And 80 year olds are slightly older and more mature children than me.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I don't feel like a child. I've changed massively since my childhood. I look at my younger friends and the things they say and do, and I recognize my former self in them, but it's the self I've grown out of a long time ago.

[(Anonymous)]

I've definitely had similar experiences. It started when 20-something adults with degrees and jobs and things would talk nostalgically about growing up with Harry Potter and waiting in vain for an invitation to Wizard School on their eleventh birthday. Those books started coming out around the time I graduated high school so I always thought of anyone who actually grew up with them as a little kid. Hearing 25-year-olds talk about their childhood love of Harry Potter was very jarring and forced me to realize that those "little kids" were only about 10 years younger than me and once I had hit my mid-30s they were actual adults in their mid-20s.

At least with Harry Potter, I did read the books and see the movies (well, up through the first Fantastic Beasts and then I gave up) so it's not like I had no idea what "kids these days" are talking about. I have no fucking clue what kids/teens are into now. (Back to the topic of the thread, I never really identified with the Harry Potter characters because while I know plenty of people my age were WAY into the franchise, I felt too old to identify with the child characters but too young to identify with the older adult characters, and I just wasn't drawn in by the few young adult characters.)

[(Anonymous)]

Please don't speak for everyone. I stopped feeling like a kid at 14. In my case due to abuse.

[(Anonymous)]

please speak for yourself, i do not relate to children more than i relate to adults.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been an adult since I was 14 and all I can think is no wonder I couldn't relate to all those snot-nosed brats in my class. They were the normal ones, not me.

But the fact that you're 30 and are still a snot-nosed brat is something you should be ashamed of and should trying to change, not claiming is still normal.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - I'm sorry you were robbed of your youth. That sucks, and it isn't fair for anyone. But as for the rest of it-- assuming the practical responsibilities of adult life at a young age does not guarantee you also mature emotionally. For instance, the knee-jerk hostility and OTT judgementalism on your comment doesn't exactly ring of emotional maturity.

OP shouldn't have generalized, but they're absolutely right that a very significant percentage of adults don't really feel "like adults," and knowing that it's a perfectly common and normal way to feel can be really helpful and even therapeutic for people who feel that way.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

but they're absolutely right that a very significant percentage of adults don't really feel "like adults," and knowing that it's a perfectly common and normal way to feel can be really helpful and even therapeutic for people who feel that way.

THIS

And also, being a kid/being innocent/being a child is overrated as fuck. The only thing good about being a kid is that presumably you have adults to protect you and provide for you. If you're so unlucky that you lose that innocence due to abuse or failure of adults to take care of you, that is godawful and I'm so sorry.

But having autonomy as an adult is waaaaaayyyyyyy better. I don't miss being a child or teenager at all. I was helpless then and I couldn't even drive to get away. Would not go back to that for any amount of money.

[(Anonymous)]

In my early 50s, can relate that I still often feel like an awkward early 20s peros who's only just learned to get good at pretending to be a "real" adult. You never actually outgrow this, honestly.

But that doesn't mean I idealize or miss my childhood or teen years and want to watch media with teen characters. High school was some of the worst years of my life and I wouldn't go back to it if you paid me an impressive salary to do so. Ugh. The only good thing about my adolescence was that it was short and it's long over.