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Growing Up and Age

H_Pcats

For context, I am 17 nearly 18 years old and I am really scared of becoming an adult. I don't know if it is because of my autism or the fact most of my teenage years were spent with covid. 

As a child, I seemed mentally ahead of my years and seemed to grow up really quickly. But since becoming a teenager I started to seem younger than my peers, especially so recently. I still feel about 15 yet my 18th Birthday is in a few weeks. Everyone else seems to be growing up and keen to leave home and school and start driving and being independent. Yet I don't feel anywhere ready for that. I still want to be a kid and be in school and everything seems to have gone too fast. I am in desperate need of advice and if anyone else felt/feels the same and how they coped with it.

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  • Hi H_Pcats You wowwy about that to much, yes on average we mature slower, but there is upside to that, you'll realise it next 20 years. We age slower too, so maybe at that moment you think of yourself as childish, but you'll most likely retain your  babyface until 50s. !8 is just a number. The only thing important about is that law will consider you an adult from that moment. I wasn't noit ready at all. a total shock. But it passed. Like everyone else I had to learn how to take care of things involved in living alone. Some are still a mystery but it matters not.

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  • Hi H_Pcats You wowwy about that to much, yes on average we mature slower, but there is upside to that, you'll realise it next 20 years. We age slower too, so maybe at that moment you think of yourself as childish, but you'll most likely retain your  babyface until 50s. !8 is just a number. The only thing important about is that law will consider you an adult from that moment. I wasn't noit ready at all. a total shock. But it passed. Like everyone else I had to learn how to take care of things involved in living alone. Some are still a mystery but it matters not.

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