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Don't relate to people my own age very often.
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Well, ever since I can remember, I haven't been able to relate very well to people my own age, especially in large groups. I always relate best, and enjoy the company of older people, I mean 10-20 or more years older than me, or kids. I'm 24. In nursery school, I'd only want to sit next to the teacher during reading and I always played on my own. I wasn't a teachers pet, I always kind of looked down on the pets, but I didn't feel comfortable around the kids my age, they all seemed kind of crazy. It's like that today, I find people my own age overwhelming and the back-and-forth that goes on between them boring and unnatural for me. But at the same time I worry that I'm wasting my youth, not enjoying it. I do enjoy going out and dancing, but that's not really socialising, it's dancing.

I'm also an only child so I wonder if it has anything to do with it but I know not all only children are this way.
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violent10dency (10988)
2009-03-04 09:53:33
I can really relate to all of this because I'm 23 so close to your age and I too am an only child. I really don't feel comfortable around people my own age. I either like socializing with older people about 10-20 years older or playing with children. I think this is just part of my personality because I've always been this way especially when it comes to school and college. I can remember never really fitting in with kids at school and in high school I could not relate to kids my age. I always felt like they were immature, wild, boring, or extremely obsessed with sex. Most of the time I was at home on the computer because I just could not deal with them.

I find myself now being the hermit again even though I'm in college because all people do who are my age is either stare at me or act like complete immature idiots. I feel like I want to be an adult but everyone else my age wants to be a child. I guess I can't judge them because not everyone can be a quiet loner like me. The funny thing is, my son is only 3 and he only likes babies or kids much older than him. In his daycare class he does not like the children in his room and always plays by himself. He begs me almost everyday to go into the baby room. I wonder if he got it from me or it's just a coincidence?
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Duck_________ (20737)
2009-03-05 03:23:35
I'm 19, and feel the same way. Although I don't really like going out and dancing, in fact, I hate dancing (although I do boogie every now and then at home), but I digress. Sadly, I have nothing more to add, save that I'm in the same boat.
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MRSBOSS (20706)
2009-03-05 16:10:46
Your totally normal. so dont worry.
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mattyxlove (20529)
2009-03-09 23:47:54
it's normal, i'm the same way. i tend to relate better to those in their late 20s and beyond...and i'm 18 (it's been this way since i can remember).

i think it's more because of the environment we were raised in during early childhood that has something to do with it.
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rememberyourlimits (23862)
2009-06-04 21:41:47
Well I am 21, an only child and have had the same problem, or is it a problem. The funny thing is I look in my thirties and my hairline is receding, my one friend jokes, I act like the age I look.
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hotchickie81 (24721)
2009-06-26 09:32:46
i can totally relate. people my age can be very immature. most of my friends have been older.
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