I'm almost 30, been responsible. All of my jobs,my bosses compliment me. The problem is with people closer to me, I'm never taken seriously, and I'm the butt of every joke and the worst part of it is that I don't know why,I do have friendships and relationship trauma because when I used to give people my thoughts or acted serious. They took it personal and suddenly we were enemies. That happened back when I was in HS so when I'm talking to people nowadays, I get scared to sound more serious. So I freeze and instead of acting serious I'll just sound like a naive guy literally saying 'yeah!!!" To everything. I'm sure this is why people think I'm stupid. I eavesdropped my own neighbors talking about me and I'm labeled as "That kid here and there" they call me a kid. While the others are treated like adults when I'm 28… Twenty-Eight… I don't get treated like this by my friends. But family members and neighbors, this neighbor of mine literally asked me if I knew what a prison was when we were having a conversation. He said "in prison, you know what a prison is, right"' They do this all the time This whole thing has been making me give up on life. Some said I was glowing up when I was 16 and how I had a glow down and they said I'm acting like a complete child, that im not sane now. Yet there's never a reason… Besides the fact that I do get agitated when I'm talking because people talk about me all the time to the point that I freeze and sound like a nerd to avoid stuttering. I still live with my parents while I'm working and I get neighbors judging me for being single, childless and apparently not "independent enough"