Is it normal to still feel like a teen at my age?

Hello. I'm an actor who has done film so my real name is not here, because I'm about to ask personal stuff.

I'm 44 years old, but look younger and have a younger attitude. I try to make everyone feel happy by joking around and playing around as much as I can, in a good-natured-ok I admit sometimes I'm a bit of a demon too-way.

I will be honest, although I have close friends of ALL ages, I feel more like myself with younger people, whose ages can range from 12-25, 26. I am very popular among the younger crowd, have always been. I even have a "cliche group" of teens who actually DO consider me to be one of them, we play basketball together, hang out together and speak on facebook (no phone calls or home visits, I myself have told them that would be weird). Generally speaking those teens, their parents know me and accept me. Some even talk to me like family also.

I have an 18 year old girlfriend who I just started dating and I DID ASK HER FOR AN ID because Im no lawbreaker and a law abiding citizen and so cheked her birth date, and she just says she has a crush on me and she loves spending time with me, talking and laughing and all and I like spending time with her obviously, we are knowing each other yet, and so far it seems a good match as we have tangible personalities.

OBVIOUSLY, I have never had sex with any younger kids and never also had any relationships, I mean that would be disrespectful and would break a potentially life lasting friendship. I have some friends who I met 20, 25 years ago when they were 12, 13 and still my friends. I have friends who are 60-70 and older, and I have friends who are 13-14 and who I expect to be my friends for 30 or 40 years down the road. I guess I am just a very likeable person that everyone feels they could talk to or listen to.

I honestly feel like I am still a teenager, perhaps a teen trapped in an old man's body. I feel I wish I could be 16 again, body-wise and hate realizing that my 44 year old body is telling me that due to injuries and stuff in a few years it might be time to pack the basketball bags.

I will let you know that I was in a coma when I was 12, due to illness. Recently I found out that I suffered brain injury during my coma and that the doctors at the time told my parents that due to the injuries sustained, my brain could stop from maturing at a certain point.

Now I am not mentally disabled. I attended college at 16, I have worked 9-5 jobs and appeared in film as I said. I also have a degree in modeling and am a capable writer and father figure to all my nieces and nephews.

Sometimes I look at myself on the mirror and even through like I said I look younger (and people do tell me that I look way younger than 44) I feel I do not know the face in the mirror, like in the Freaky Friday scene where Lindsay Lohan looks at herself and says she looks like the Crypt-Keeper.

Is it normal to feel this way and to be me?

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44% Normal
Based on 25 votes (11 yes)
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  • sourgrapes

    No its not bloody well normal...

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  • Tealights

    Find a good therapist you're comfortable with.

    I would suggest Peter Pan Syndrome, but feeling young in your case isn't an issue, since you're successful, able to be a good father-figure, and more. Still, talk to a psychologist about it; because you're only going to get older, and you'll need someone to help you accept it and be there for you when you undergo more changes as you age.

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  • CorruptedSoul

    I agree with you. He's not normal. It's scary how delusional some people can be. The fact is he is still 44

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  • dweeb

    Ur a dweeb.

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  • AntonioMartin

    I'm not manipulating her, we have not had sex. We just like each other. She is 18 and legally and quite honestly I think also maturely, can decide to have sex with whoever she wants to or not. She is not a baby.

    In fact I am so not manipulating her that she is the one who started our relation not me, she noticed me and started speaking to me before I even knew her. You should not judge this relationship like you have because you do not know us, and our history and the way it has developed.

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    • IKR28

      Just ignore ha BURN! guy, everyone on this site knows he is a deluded old virgin troll who never go laid in his life and judges everything b his own perception and thinks the world revolves around him. Both nature and law supports your life. Its your life, you live it the way you want, don go explaining to irrelevant losers like Burn and no one cares what he thinks.

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      • AntonioMartin

        Oh I agree!

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  • AntonioMartin

    I feel jealousy on your voice....

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  • hgjukbjk

    I'm not reading all that.

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    • you_go_glen_coco

      Yeah. Fuck that shit

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  • Jess1010

    No you have some problems. You should not be hanging out with or dating people that young. I don't care how old you feel, you are 44. That is reality, start living in it. My mom hangs out with people even younger than me and it is so uncomfortable because she acts like a teenager sometimes. I think she is depressed or has something wrong with her mentally.

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