Do you ever feel like you are still a little girl?

umm, maybe sometimes. if i don't feel safe (dark, underground parking garage, etc) i think i sometimes do feel much younger than my late 40s.  or if confronted with a situation i have never experienced before and am at a loss what to logically do next. 

i do know i can't believe i am *in* my mid-40s (how did that happen?) but not sure that is what you mean.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'feel like you are still a little girl' but I often feel a lot younger than other people my age. Maybe not having children does that? I still have a childlike wonder over silly little things.

Yes. =(

I understand this feeling.

I experienced a traumatic event at a young age. My councilor explained that this type of feeling, the not growing up, was my brains way of trying to self preserve. On the inside, I feel like I am at the age before there was any abuse. I don't know if I will ever feel normal age, whatever that feels like. I will be 50 next week.

It IS hard to explain. I just wrote 3 long paragraphs that I deleted because it reads like I should be in a mental hospital. I'm normal on the outside. I did all the things that most of us do as we grow up. And I didn't just go through the motions, I wanted to do all these things. I got married, had kids, have a house, work full time, etc.. I am a fully functioning adult. But my brain is stuck in the timeframe of me being a child. Like I shouldn't ever have been allowed to do any of these things.



So yes, I understand how this feels.

All the time.

I constantly feel like I’m playing house, as opposed to being an adult with a house.

I kind of like it, though.

Keeps me from feeling old/boring.


I don’t have any childhood trauma.

Yep

My mother is quite abusive

I’m a weird mix of confident and terrified depending on the situation, and if there is someone I can lean on, I do

I've never felt like a child or teenager, but I have stopped occasionally and thought, holy crap, *I* am the adult in charge here. How did this happen!? 😂

I’ll be honest I don’t... i barely remember what childhood felt like, and I don’t know what I felt like when I was a little girl. I remember things about growing up but they feel very long ago to me now.

I feel like an adult... I feel pretty solid and responsible and settled. I still feel creative, I feel excited to learn things, I just don’t feel like a little girl.

I do still sometimes feel like someone better at being an adult should be in charge though... some days I think maybe I have too many things I’m responsible for and just want to hand over the keys!

I am 49 but feel 36 or so... I agree about not having children. I think I am at a different stage of life than my chronological peers. It is evening out a bit now that more my age are becoming empty nesters finally.

I'm the youngest in my family. I sometimes feel like I'm not treated like an adult or my ideas or dismissed. Actually feeling young, physically great, and care free? Never.

I feel 50 and I'm 40. For me, it's my physical issues and big issues over the last 10 years. I don't think there's anything wrong with you.

I feel like I’m emotionally stunted which has definitely affected my daily life. Sometimes I feel like my kids are more mature thAn me.

Not in a way that equals being unconfident but in a way that still enjoys life and dolls and animals and tiny things and nature, yes.

I'm fairly strong and confident, I was raised to be self-reliant and that being brave and smart was the best thing I could be. I was taught to solve my own problems from teachers to other kids to whatever. I didn't always get the emotional nurturing I wanted but I think I turned out strong (after a few missteps) and I'm happy with myself. I raised my kids the same way only with more making sure they knew they were loved by both parents--they thank me all the time as they are beginning their own adult lives.

I'm sorry for all who hurt inside

Yes I often feel this way. And yes there was a trauma that 1st occurred around age 10.