@MystAngel, I'm surprised. I too have depression and anxiety, but I still don't feel like I've changed (unless I look in the mirror, that is). At least not since I was 20 or so. Some of my hobbies changed, some of my general believes about people, but overall it's been the same. As for hobbies, I think I had more mature hobbies in the past, like, I was studying philosophy for my own enjoyment, but then I came back to gaming and fanfiction, after a big break. Most of my hobbies cycle with time, there's no hobby that is continuous. There are some that got forever left behind, though, like programming and playing shooters.

Depression doesn't make my soul feel older, it makes me feel like only my body is "old". Because of total lack of energy, the kind of effort it takes to do everything, like write this post. It makes one feel like a fossil. But internally it's different, sometimes I feel like I'm still a child. However, I should note that by "a child" I do not mean someone full of energy, I'm talking about someone who is naive, fragile and defenseless. I was like that as a child, and I still feel like that. I wish I could feel my age and be confident like other 31year olds are. But I'm driven by fear (people call it anxiety, but I call it fear), and fear and insecurity is something that only a child or young teens are allowed to experience in our society, so I feel like a perpetual young teen who still can't grow up...


That happened to me, too. I had a great friend for 10 years, and now I can't speak to him anymore, it's too disappointing. It's still ok for him, but I can't stand how he talks and his topics, I've outgrown all that. We got acquainted when we were both into philosophy and esoteric topics, now I think all of that is meaningless abstract ruminations, and I can't listen to him doing it.

But still it doesn't make me feel any older. It just makes me feel.. smarter? Like I've realized that such meaningless chatter isn't really smart, and it's more meaningful to be down-to-earth.

I, on the other hand, tell anyone who wants to listen about Sims 2 - maybe that reflects my age If they do not like that - I simply do not care
And around we will be, I think, for a while longer - and as the circle rotates, one day Sims2Christain will be the elder on the forum and think back to us discussing age (and hopefully remember us with a smile and toast us for having been here once )

@Babahara

I'll put my response regarding depression in a spoiler, to avoid overloading the thread. Also, some people might prefer to keep this topic more lighthearted. I'm aware that games forum is not exactly a place where people want to read stuff like this.

@MystAngel, I PMed you to avoid flooding the topic with not so lighthearted off-topic. Sorry if anyone was interested in the conversation!

I think I must have been sixteen or seventeen when a friend of mine in high school had a copy of The Sims 2 game and shared it with me, lol. I've been playing the game ever since. Now I'm 21 years old, and it felt like I have 'grown up' together with the game :')

I first played TS1 when I was six years old (I still remember that I was afraid of ghosts in Goth’s house and thought that plumbbob changes its colour with time ), now I’m not so far from finishing uni (1.5 years left), so I definitely do feel I grew up with the game.

Uhm I started playing Sims when I was like 11/12 (thanks to my schoolmates, I would play at them place or play on my computer when they would come and visit me), then I bought Sims 2 + University while I was 13... An since then I've never stopped playing. Now I'm almost 25 and, as some posted before, I grew up with the game. Actually, I have to thank the Italian community (now not active anymore) because through the game and later, the forums, I've learned lot of things not only about the game but also about life.

I was six when I got The Sims 2 Double Deluxe for Christmas 2010. I'm on my early teenage years.

I'm 50 - will turn 51 this summer - and have been a gamer since Pong, Space Invaders, and Centipede.

And I'm far from the oldest here.

29 and practically throwing tantrums over the fact I turn 30 this year.

People tend to think I'm 15 or a boy who's really fat.

I am losing weight. It is taking some time.

Been playing entertainment and edutainment games since age 3.

And I, in late February, will be 21. Yes, I am a student culinary college of Russia.
With Sims familiar with 5-6 years. It was at godmother away, and she was a game in the computing system, as I called her, "about men". (It was the Sims 1!). I was given to her to play Sims 2 (Sims 1 apparently did not trust). Later (I was already 9-10) we had a computer, and she gave us the Sims 2 (all the game asked my mom = D).
Now Sims 2 is my favorite. Of course sometimes I go to the Sims 3, (and even more rarely I go to the Sims 4), but this is not it.
And last summer downloaded Sims 1, how many remembered!

Ahah! happy birthday DJ

I was 3 years old when I played the sims (the original) around 2002 for the first time on a computer older than me (I still have it, but I have no idea if it still works). I'm 17 now, really close to 18 and I'm still playing the sims 1 and 2, because they have that "something" the sims 3 and 4 lack. Maybe I like them more because they are more naturally spontaneous compared to the last ones, and every time I try to go back to the game files I have in there I fall asleep. Some classmates in high school called me weird because I'm a simmer, but honestly, I couldn't care less about their opinions.

Started playing Sims1 --WHEN I RETIRED! Now I'm 73, still happily playing (mostly building) Sims2.

Happy birthday DJ!

I turned 28 on the 10th...I still feel *mentally* how I did when I was 15. And i'm sort of freaking out that this year is my 10 year anniversary graduation from High School. Like..how has it been a decade? It feels like it was last month XD

I was playing TS2 when I was a teenager and i'll continue playing it, on and off as I tend to do, for the rest of my life. <3

Its been long time about sims 1 i played with my next door friend when i just in first year elementary school, and i replayed again in last 2 years until now i went to graduate from college. Playing sims 1 together with sims 2 since this two still give me private pleasure to design lot :D


Never thought about woman over 70 playing the sims ^_^
It can make record,haha

And this is why I love The Sims games so much. :lovestruc :lovestruc

I get very annoyed with I see videos/posts about people going, oh when I was young and played the sims. Meanwhile they look like fresh college graduates. (yeah you are still young) What is it with people thinking sims is a little kids game?! I'm in the 50+ bracket now and don't plan to give up anytime soon, even if I am currently playing Dragon Age Origins badly. We managed to buy it for $18! Also lets put down the idea that DAO and similar is only for young male players hmm, us older ladies know how to kick butt.

It is a little kids' game. And a big kids' game. And an old kids' game...

I have been a fan since I played on the PS2... I think the first game I had was Bustin' Out and I would have been about 11 or 12. I got Sims 2 around the time of Family Fun Stuff. I'm 24 next month. Not sure how much I've grown up since I first played though!

I reckon that makes you one of our youngest regular posters on the Sims 2 forum. Congratulations on choosing to play the best computer game yet written.

I was 61 when I got The Sims 2 Double Deluxe in Autumn 2012. So, although I'm about five times your age, you've been playing for nearly two years longer than me! That it appeals to such wide range of people, is one of the things that makes this game so special.

In the terms of maxon's poll, I'm now looking for my slippers!

You were just on time with the birthday wishes, and I'm running a bit behind on the thank-yous. So, thanks, HarVee, Rosebine and wickedjr89! :D

I'm 32.

I'm also 32!
I started playing ( a little) The Sims 1, well... in 2000 I think. My sister got it for Christmas and then my mother became addicted and bought every SP and EP for the Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. Back then we only had one computer for the family, so I didn't play The Sims very much. And even when I started playing The Sims 2 on my own laptop in 2005 or 2006, I mostly played on and off, with long period (months, years) off. So I thInk I didn't (don't) play that much. I haven't played since July I think.

I feel so old reading about posters who first played Sims 2 in preschool - I was in my mid-30s when I started with Sims 1! (I heard about it on r.a.t.s.a, a group for ABC soap operas - everyone seemed to be having great fun recreating their favorite soap opera towns.)