Are there any of you who despite your age feel that a part of you has never grown up and may never do so?

Yes – I have loss and abandonment issues that go back to when I was four. There is still a wound there that I have to be aware of when it colors my reactions to loss in the present.

Down deep—and not all that deep—I’m still a shy kid who thinks everybody knows more than I do.

I asked “this question”: http://www.fluther.com/112043/are-you-an-adult and the answers still seem relevant.

The more I age, the less I relate to my aging body. Perhaps I just refuse to grow up? Mentally, I hope I am always as I am now. I never want to let any physical ailments have an effect on who I am.

Hell no I don’t want to grow up, adults are boring.

My childhood was swapped with my adulthood.

Yep. I was never allowed to be a kid. Now I have stuffies and hello kitty pens, I’m so happy about the Sailor Moon reboot. I watch kids movies, a lot.

I am also dead inside so I have to show a happy face. :)

Sure. I’m still a kid. I just grew on the outside. I still do crazy things and can be quite silly. I love kids books and films. I get excited about going on trips and to see the circus. I still sometimes feel like the ‘odd-one-out’ and like I don’t fit. It can still hurt. I miss being able to go to my dad and snuggle up to watch TV and tell him my problems and have him help me solve them. I think I just handle such emotions with more maturity than I would have back then but I don’t know that the child in us is every totally quelled. I hope not anyway.

Yes, I think that I have worked on most of my childhood wounds, but once in a while they still bite me in the butt!

@marinelife Quite a metaphor!

@janbb Thank you. I went to simile school.~

Yes.

Fortunately it was the part I had designated ‘never grow upable’ when I was still in utero.

I still feel like I’m about 20.

Me? 19.

Boo, tickle, boobies, fart..

I tend to feel and act as young as I can get away with.