The title says it all.

Personally, I still do a lot of kiddy things despite being long out of high school. I love to watch cartoons, fangirl over Disney, and I'm currently watching animes and Scooby Doo in my free time.

Most of the things that people stop doing because they're "too old" for them, are the things that give you happiness. Main reason why so many adults are miserable sods with no joy in their lives.

My potted theory.

I like cute stuff, which isn't something that I'm doing as such, but is the same kind of thing. I have a very cute bag that I use when I'm wearing my hot pink winter coat.

Both the bag and the pink coat are a "younger" thing to do, I'm sure, but I get compliments on both. That tells me that other people like them, and, that it's unusual enough to be comment-worthy. As so many people wear boring black winter coats and have boring black bags...

I'm utterly convinced my mum would make some comment about my bag being childish if she could think of a way of saying it without offending me. The fact that she's avoided refering to it at all says it all to me xD My sister, who's 31, thinks it's cute...

If something you enjoyed when you were younger still gives you pleasure now, keep doing it! Because the nostalgic element that is bound into that enjoyment makes it so much more of a good thing. Most people are at their happiest as a kid (see my initial statement) so doing something as a "grown up" that gave you pleasure as a kid helps you to relive a part of the unfettered joy of being a kid. Wonderful for your stress levels, and probably helps you to remember some of the good aspects of being human, instead of focusing on the bad, which is what a lot of adults do.

People forget the simple joy they felt as a kid, if there are ways out there that let you recapture that feeling, why deny yourself this because someone else thinks it's immature behaviour? Screw them, it's your life not theirs.

I do a lot of things that are still considered as "kiddie," but I don't think you are ever too old to stop doing these things.
I watch cartoons (currently watching Avatar: The Last Air Bender) and I watch anime or read manga. I also still play video games and play Pokemon and other video games that seem kiddie. I like to play dress up games (like avatar sites or other dress up games for the 3DS or some online). I also like to buy action figures or things that relate to my favorite game series' or to movies, TV series, etc.

I'm a big kid at heart, haha. I also love to go to amusement parks or anything related with Disney and ride roller coasters and many other things! c:

Oh man where do I begin? There's:
video games (Wonderful 101, Mario Kart, Kid Icarus etc...),
cartoons (Pokemon, Dreamworks Dragons, Gravity Falls etc...),
Plush toys (Pokemon, Zelda, Professor Layton, Xenoblade etc...),
and Legos (nuff said )

All stemming from my childhood of course but I can see why some might think it weird that someone my age is still into these things. But the way I see it, all of these things are a part of my personality. I can't just stop. It's who I am. And I don't think I'll ever want to.

Originally Posted by NavigatingAnomaly

Oh man where do I begin? There's:
video games (Wonderful 101, Mario Kart, Kid Icarus etc...),
cartoons (Pokemon, Dreamworks Dragons, Gravity Falls etc...),
Plush toys (Pokemon, Zelda, Professor Layton, Xenoblade etc...),
and Legos (nuff said )

All stemming from my childhood of course but I can see why some might think it weird that someone my age is still into these things. But the way I see it, all of these things are a part of my personality. I can't just stop. It's who I am. And I don't think I'll ever want to.

Oh gosh, I'm still into plushies too and legos.
I just got the U.S.S. Enterprise lego model to put together...lol

Probably the most childish thing I do is go to parks just to swing on the swings. Usually I actually do it alone, for some reason, and I find it to not only be really fun, but also kind of relaxing. When it comes to it, I always get excited about playgrounds, though the swings are my favourite.

I also LOVE plushies and other toys. I'm incredibly attached to a tiny bunny plushie of mine that I've had since I was around five or six years old, and my pillow is actually a pillow pet. I also have a doll house in my room, which I use as a shelf, since I cannot bring myself to throw it out.

I love watching movies that society labels as being "for children" - in fact, currently my favourite movie is The Lion King and the only music I've been listening to lately is soundtracks from Disney movies. I also like some picture books, such as Where the Wild Things Are, and I'm reading The Invention of Hugo Cabaret, which is huge picture book, and it's great. When it comes to books for children, I also still enjoy the early Harry Potter and Percy Jackson novels, even if they're simply written and intended for a younger audience.

I'm too old to wear my hair in pig tails, but of course I do anyway. Not my fault that two braids are the easiest way of keeping my hair from becoming a mess.

I still cry if I lose my game while playing monopoly And, as a side fact: I always lose when I play with my sister :D

SWINGS!! I believe all adults should have to play on swings, by law! I totally agree with Aganab that they're both fun and relaxing. But they're something that pretty much none of us have done since being about 10 years old. We'd be self-conscious to go on a swing now and that's really sad. Because not only is playing on a swing fun and stress-relieving, it's good exercise too!

There's playgrounds here with age restrictions, but I go there at night and play on them.

I haven't been to a playground in ages, which is really sad since there's one just a block away from my house.

Once the weather warms up, maybe I'll have to start walking over there.

I love to swing! There's a (usually) deserted park a block or so from my house. When it's warm enough, and I'm feeling nostalgic, I go commandeer the swings for awhile. It's so much fun. I'm always worried I'm going to break it, though, so I typically don't swing too high.

I miss slides, though! I'm too big for the slide at the park where I use the swings. We need adult sized slides that aren't just at fairs and theme parks, dang it. Really, we need adult sized playgrounds.

Watching MLP and cartoons :3
But nobody need to know right?

But I'm going to draw these cartoons later so... It's for my career good :D

Adult playground would be fun! More fun that gym club but I'm sure we would move the same!

Slides used to scare me, so you're welcome to the slide, Elysium ><

And yes, adult playgrounds, it's something I've often thought is a neglected niche market. Climbing frames for adults...because we'd not being able to easily do the things we could do on a climbing frame as a kid, because hardly any of us will be as fit as we were as a kid. So it would be excellent exercise, and unlike a lot of exercise, it would be fun!

Hell, when was the last time any of you did a handstand or a cartwheel? If you try either of those things as an adult your body is absolutely like, WTF are you doing?!.

Hehehe, yes. *hoardes all the slides*

I think you've got a good idea, Jelly. They should definitely try to design some playgrounds that would be suitable to adults. I know there's stuff I can't do anymore like monkey bars, and the jungle gyms could be a little less intense. On the other hand, they could and should make free exercise parks. With things like balance beams, pull up bars, and other stuff that could help everybody get in shape.

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Originally Posted by jellysundae

I like cute stuff, which isn't something that I'm doing as such, but is the same kind of thing. I have a very cute bag that I use when I'm wearing my hot pink winter coat.

I keep forgetting to mention that I think this purse is glorious.

Hehe, thank you =3

I sucked at the monkey bars even as a kid. I liked hanging upsidedown by my knees from stuff >< And when you bend forward and put your arms up behind you and grip the bar, then push up with your feet so your body goes through your arms and you end up standing up straight. Not sure if you can still do that as an adult, or if your legs are too long.

Actually I used to do it that way, then push up with my feet and do the move in reverse, and just bounce backwards and forwards between the two. As a grown up you'd need to do something like that on these wouldn't you, so you didn't get stuck.

Div is a Little girl in a Grown Woman's body. XD Div watches Anime, & Reads Manga, Loves anything Disney & Still plays with Dolls.XD

Divacita:, with wich dolls are you still playing? Japanese one like BJD?

Here in Aus there's a ton of free exercise parks that you can go to and, you know, exercise, and they're really fun to go to.

I watch kids cartoons and (retro kids) TV shows.

I collect designer/vinyl toys.

I sulk when I don't get my way.

If I have the opportunity to go on a swing, I'll take it!

I have my own swing at home so no age restrictions
I hate monkey bars or anything that I have to hang on. My arms are not strong enough to support my body it seems I always end up having an arm pain when I do hang on them :'( and I'm also a teeny tiny but scared that my hands would go rough if I hang like that I'm weird that way :D

A lot of things, actually. unu
Most notably, I'm still addicted to Pokemon.

Ugh, monkey bars. I hate them, and always have, though mainly because I'm terrible at them, and always have been.

Having swings at home would be the best thing ever! My dad built me a set of swings when I was little, and it was awesome, but since then we moved many times. At some point my parents bought my younger brother a set, but they're those child-size swings that are less than a metre off the ground, which means that I'm too tall to use them. Worse yet, once a friend of mine came over and sat on one and it broke. Whoops.

I just remembered another thing that I do that's considered to be 'childish' - jumping on the trampoline! We have a big one in our backyard, which doesn't have any age restrictions (!) which means that I get to jump on it whenever I feel like. It's fun, and it's great exercise as well!

I collect Beanie Babies. I play video games and watch cartoons. Whenever I get the chance I put on the Original teenage mutant ninja turtles and eat pizza. It makes me feel better after a bad day.

I still love swing sets, the taller the better. I can't think of a way to appropriately describe it. I like it probably for the same reason I want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.