Feeling inferior with a little girl

[Suzanne]

I met a child yesterday and so shocked with myself, because I felt that she was the adult and not me! The way she brushed my: hello off, was so off putting that I just wanted to run away and never see her again, but hang on, she is like only 4 or 5, compared to my age of 52!

 

[Primrose]

I often admire kids / teenagers confidence. Especially at social events when I'm feeling clumsy and awkward and they are so at ease.

 

[Mary Terry]

I met a child yesterday and so shocked with myself, because I felt that she was the adult and not me! The way she brushed my: hello off, was so off putting that I just wanted to run away and never see her again, but hang on, she is like only 4 or 5, compared to my age of 52!

Kids can be rude. Most of them go through a phase of that kind of behavior. Their parents need to teach them manners! Having raised three kids, I'm sometimes sorely tempted to correct other people's children when they "act out", especially when they are in public places. But I don't do it despite the urge.

 

[Gerontius]

There are a lot of people who ride at the same barn I do. Children are very good at picking up on a special interest if it involves pets (try explaining to a child that horses are livestock; little kids think even chickens are pets) and anyway let's just say I've seen children of eight or nine better at some skills than I am.

Letting small children act like small adults is far less harmful than forcing them into that ghastly Shirley Temple-looking cutesy stuff that's expected of children until about the age of seven.

 

[BongoMan]

Kids are jerks, forget those girls.

 

[NB79]

I can relate lol, i can't handle kids at all, the way people make conversation with them, i can't, is this something common in people with autism?, i would like to hear other peoples experiences.