You are doing just fine. The calendar says you are twenty but your mind has had to do perhaps three life times worth of processing while you got to twenty. Sixty brain years? Then there is me. I entered therapy in earnest at 56 with perhaps the emotional capacity of a principled maybe 14 year old. I had became rigid, narrow, wanting only death to end my pain and only life so as not to betray the few good relationships I had. My therapist had to bring me back to the future ( as the old movie title goes) which has meant me picking up as much flexible brain power as I possibly can so as to honor that professional relationship.
actually im a writer (nothing published but maybe one day. if not i wont be heartbroken it’s not my dream.) i just got better at using words and stuff over the years (me not trying obvious by “and stuff” lol)
More than once Once I have heard of something along those lines. Myself (62) and and a guy I know (42 ish) probably both emotionally stopped developing at about 14 years old.
Yeah, that makes sense. I heard or read somewhere that emotional development is affected by drug use. Whether or not it’s true I don’t know, but I started doing a lot of drugs around age 16, and I’ll be darned if I don’t find myself behaving and reacting like I did way back then. I’m 55 now, and have been semi-clean for the past fourteen years, with a few relapses in the past two years. But still, I can sense my own immaturity. At times its almost comical.
15, kind of funny since that’s the number of comments before i comment this. 15 for a week, it’s weird to be young and “old” in a way at the same time. old not as in senior or adult, but as a younger person, teenager i suppose, 15 is kind of old. last time i felt like i have a certain age, i felt like i was 8.
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24, getting there.
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55
I’m a bit over 13 billion years old.
I knew you were an oldie. You’re older than dirt!
Don’t get me started on dirt. Those younguns are always showing off their grit.
Yeah but we avoid the cones.
62 now
Wow. Nothing about your age it’s just I’m 20 and we’ve actually been holding a pretty good conversation. I can be bad at conversations sometimes. Lol
You are doing just fine. The calendar says you are twenty but your mind has had to do perhaps three life times worth of processing while you got to twenty. Sixty brain years? Then there is me. I entered therapy in earnest at 56 with perhaps the emotional capacity of a principled maybe 14 year old. I had became rigid, narrow, wanting only death to end my pain and only life so as not to betray the few good relationships I had. My therapist had to bring me back to the future ( as the old movie title goes) which has meant me picking up as much flexible brain power as I possibly can so as to honor that professional relationship.
actually im a writer (nothing published but maybe one day. if not i wont be heartbroken it’s not my dream.) i just got better at using words and stuff over the years (me not trying obvious by “and stuff” lol)
Only physically. Mentally, I am almost ten.
More than once Once I have heard of something along those lines. Myself (62) and and a guy I know (42 ish) probably both emotionally stopped developing at about 14 years old.
In response to trauma, I should have added.
Yeah, that makes sense. I heard or read somewhere that emotional development is affected by drug use. Whether or not it’s true I don’t know, but I started doing a lot of drugs around age 16, and I’ll be darned if I don’t find myself behaving and reacting like I did way back then. I’m 55 now, and have been semi-clean for the past fourteen years, with a few relapses in the past two years. But still, I can sense my own immaturity. At times its almost comical.
25, or 30-40 according to my co-workers
18 boiii
15, kind of funny since that’s the number of comments before i comment this. 15 for a week, it’s weird to be young and “old” in a way at the same time. old not as in senior or adult, but as a younger person, teenager i suppose, 15 is kind of old. last time i felt like i have a certain age, i felt like i was 8.
29 but I’m a kid at heart.