r/nevergrewup

I don't like ai illustrated storybooks at all. Just not my style. But usually it's obvious when one is ai illustrated. The problem I saw now, ai coloring books! I was looking online yesterday and could barely tell the difference from ai, to non ai. What do you guys think, as ngu? Do you like them or not?

Does anyone else suddenly realize how much they’ve changed?

I was cleaning up my phone the other day and came across photos from about 10 years ago.

It was weird seeing what I considered a “normal” day back then. I'd get excited about the smallest things, stay up ridiculously late talking to friends, and somehow have enough energy to do everything.

Now a perfect evening is finishing everything I needed to do, ordering something I like, and getting into bed early.

The funny part is that I don't think I've become less happy. My definition of a good day just changed without me noticing.

At what point did adulthood quietly change what you consider a good day?

I miss it so much that I've bought diapers and pacifiers off various websites off the Internet.

Oddly enough, when I was little, I thought being an adult was so cool because they get to do whatever they wanted. But ever since I was like 15, I've just felt so miserable. I feel as if I'm putting on a mask without taking it off. I don't feel happy being what I am anymore as an adult.

I feel like a little kid trapped in a grown man's body. Where I just don't know how to be an adult, even though I'm currently 26.

I try to do anything that people my age are into to make friends, and I feel so alone where I live. I feel like an outsider in my own community. I don't know what else to do.

It's like I've been evicted from my own happy place and forced to live elsewhere. That's how I feel whenever somebody tells me to "grow up". I've been doing that for a decade, trying to find things that will make people like me, just so that they could be my friend. So far, it emotionally hurts me.

There were times it had grown into genuine interests like sports, movies, TV shows, and video games, but it feels like a high someone would get when taking a drug. A temporary feeling, more or less.

It sucks, period. I don't know where I can find new friends because I just feel different from people my age. I feel like everything overwhelms the hell out of me. It puts me into sensory overload almost every day.

I just haven't been in a good mental state lately. I'm very sad. I have two cousins who are both getting married soon. One is my age, and the other is yet far younger. They are already so successful, and one is in school for children's ministry, which was my dream career field. I think back to like 2016, to 2020 when I was at my absolute peak and most successful in life. Then I lost all that confidence, all that ambition and all that "adult energy" I could mask with. I'm just scared about my present and my future. I worry what will happen to me.

i have c-ptsd and i just turned 17 years old. i still mentally feel like i'm 11-13 years old, which is when a lot of my trauma happened. i feel so sad when i see people younger than me online, even just by a year, and i wish i could feel like a kid again. i'm sad :((( and i don't know what to do to feel better.. does anyone here have any strategies to deal with it.. i feel stuck in a body that isn't mine and keeps aging when i don't want it to..

TW:suicide

I hate being a grown not only is it because it's difficult for me to move in a world meet for grown ups but also I have autism ADHD DID GAD PTSD with derealization and depersonalization so half the time am not even conscious in my life and my parents don't understand/don't help with these either they usually make it worse (am 16)

I just want to be 3-7 again I just want to wear diapers use a pacifier and a bottle sleep in a crib etc I just want to be little again

But nooooooo

I have to live in a adult would in a adult body doing adult things I just want to kill myself ever since I was 5 I have felt like I was to old and then when I was 12 well am not going to get into that (that's when I got DID and PTSD) made 2 suicide attempts then when I was 15 I finally got real friends (I didn't really have real friends until then probably on account of my autism and ADHD) but then life had to screw me over again and my ex spread lies and they all left me

Witch leaves me here today wrong body friendless and suicidal god what a rollercoaster this is been but I really want to get off it now

Tl:dr: I want to be 3-7 am suicidal and friendless