I AM at grandmother but most people who don't know me wouldn't believe it. I've always looked younger than my age, and felt younger. I used to hate when people couldn't believe I graduated from college, was married, had kids, etc. It made me feel more immature because I looked that way. I thought wearing make-up would help, but I don't like make-up and it didn't help so I gave up.

In therapy, we work with different parts and my T says we all have young parts inside of us. I can act like a baby or a 2 year old having a tantrum, though it's hard to let my T see those parts. My child parts are very dominant; they are the ones who want to be with T all of the time, want to hold her hand, etc. The baby or child is afraid of her leaving me.

Our early years influenced our personalities so it seems logical to me that many of us seem childish or childlike, bering "stuck" at young ages.