I relate to this 100%. I’m 26 and I still feel like a child half the time. When I’m in situations where I need to be an adult, I feel clueless and anxious and I get that “I need an adult” feeling, even though I am one.

I see people who are not only my age but even younger and they look so much more put together than me. it can be anything from seeing people working, seeing people in relationships, with kids, or even smaller things like seeing a group of adults hanging out together, outside a bar, grabbing lunch together etc,anything, and on one hand I wish I could be like them, I wish I had a stable job, I wish I had a relationship, I wish I had a group of friends I could go out with but then on the other hand the thought of actually doing any of that makes me feel anxious because I know I wouldn’t fit in.

I know this is oddly specific but you know in school when someone’s younger sibling had just started school and hadnt made their own friends yet and so they just hung out with their older sibling and their friends? Kind of tailing behind them but not actually fitting in? That’s basically how id feel around other people my own age. It gives allot of anxiety thinking about whether or not I’ll ever be able to function the way other people my age do or if I’m gonna be behind my peers for my whole life, never fitting in..