Is it normal for a teenager to have adult friends?

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I'm eighteen, but throughout my teens I've had more adult friends (usually in their 20's) than ones my age. I've just always connected with them better. For example, there was a young wife/mom who often sat next to me in driver's ed (she never got around to taking it in her teens). We'd also talk and stuff after class.

I find it easier to befriend them and keep conversations interesting, while I scramble to think of things to say to others my age.

I would never date someone much older than me, though. Gross.

(Some of you may be thinking that any adult that hangs out with young teenagers is a creep, but it's not like that. I mean that whenever I'd see those people, we'd hang out and talk and have a lot of things in common, but they wouldn't come over to my house or whatever. Their other friends were adults.)

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  • Shackleford96
    8 years ago

    That is normal. Maybe you are just on a different maturity level than most people your own age. I can relate.

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    • daydreamer394
      8 years ago

      I doubt that.

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      • Shackleford96
        8 years ago

        Oh yeah, you're so special. Nobody like you in the whole wide world. Get over yourself...

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        • daydreamer394
          8 years ago

          Just as I thought.

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  • im.not.normal
    8 years ago

    If you are female i would say no, most older men who try be your friend probably just want to fuck you

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      8 years ago

      Mostly I just hang out with women, but yeah, I've kind of had that suspicion with some of my guy friends.

      Once when I was 15 there was a whole crappy incident. After knowing this dude in his twenties for about a year, it dawned on me that he was attracted to me and had feelings for me. I hadn't meant to make him feel that way, but when I looked back, I realized that I had kind of accidentally led him on.

      People often say that I'm the last to know when someone has a crush on me- I just don't notice unless I'm looking out for it, even if it is super-obvious. I didn't want anybody noticing how he behaved around me, since he'd get in trouble and be labeled as a pedophile (he's a really good guy, go easy on him). I stopped talking to him whenever possible and quit hanging around him. I think he guessed the reason why I stopped talking to him, because now whenever I see him, he acts kind of embarrassed- he looks down at the floor, won't look at me, and avoids me.

      Yeah, hanging out with older guys as a teenager may not always be the best idea, I know.

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  • Koda
    8 years ago

    When I was like 18-19 in college, I'd sit beside the guy in his thirties, or the woman in her forties. Even as a little kid I usually got along better with my friends' parents. I always enjoyed adult conversation and didn't have much time for juvenile bullshit.

    Most of my friends while I was in high school were in university. My oldest friend at the time was 10 years older than I was. He was 26 and I was 16. What's funny is that when I was 22-23, I became friends with college first years who were 17-18. Though, they were parents, so not exactly immature anymore xD

    Throughout my life, I've been friends with my aunt who's my parents' age. I'd go visit her by myself when I was 15-16. I've been friends with my grandmother's friends. I'm even pretty good friends with my little nephew. I don't think age should matter at all when it comes to friends. You can find so much in common with anyone of any age, and you can learn so much as well. Peers are over-rated.

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  • hauntedbysandwiches
    8 years ago

    If you're in driver's ed, you're like what, 16, 17? So having a friend a few years older than you is normal. It's not like their old enough to be your parents anyway and even if they were, not a big deal. People are people. You're just a bit mature for your age, that's all. I didn't relate to teens when I was a teen either. I related more to 20 and 30 somethings. Now that I'm in my twenties, I find I relate more to 40 somethings.

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