This Troper is pretty good friends with his 50-something stepdad(although I do still visit my biological dad, he's just not currently married to my mom), despite being JUST ELEVEN! Now there's an example!

This Troper knows several people, including themselves, that have friends that are half their ages. It happens a lot in the better fanfiction communities, where people tend to help one another write their stories better via prereading.

One of this college-aged-troper's best friends is her middle-aged next door neighbor. Actually, in general she gets along better with adults than people her own age.

This Troper is more or less friends with his friend's 11-year-old brother, though he's as completely desensitized as any teenager.

Due to This Troper's natural disposition of Lawful Good, I get along better with those above me and older than me (teachers, parents, etc.) Notably, a good friend's dad and I love to chat about sci-fi and fantasy [=RPGs=].

This troper with her friend's parents, her teachers, her step-dad, etc

This troper tends to stay in touch with her ex-philosophy professors because they are all cool beyond belief, but ended up becoming very good friends with one in particular. We still edit papers together and talk about Kant, Kierkegaard, Hegel,...and QuentinTarantino and StarTrek. We might even start playing music together. It's definitely an OddFriendship since he's a neurotic, hyper-nerd clean cut Christian, fairly conservative, moral absolutist and a DoggedNiceGuy and this troper is a free-spirited, also hyper nerd, bitchy agnostic left wing feminist with existentialist leanings, but we were bounded through social awkwardness and our mutual love of metaphysics.

This troper used to hang out with kids several grades older than her in elementary school. Then a couple grades younger. She also tended to hang out with the adults during family gatherings. The former two were due to a lack of popularity with kids her own age (teased and alienated her for reasons unknown) and intense shyness. The latter was also due to shyness, but she had her parents to cling to.

Between this Troper's Asperger's Syndrome, and his generally sophisticated and mature nature and interests, he has generally always related better to adults (or, these days, much older adults) than to people his own age (there seem to be ''far'' fewer social intricacies to interacting with people much older than you, which makes it a lot easier for me). Probably the instance where this was most evident was during a three-day secondary school trip to Salou (a city near Barcelona); during a stopover in a town on the way to the hotel, while all of the other students were going about looking for things to do, this Troper looked at the monuments and had lunch with the organising teachers. I ended up paying the tip.

This Troper is both sides - I'm good friends with my younger brother's friends, and I get along very, very well with my parent's adult friends.

OP here, get your mind out of the gutter.

This troper is popular among the juniors in her school. She never really fit in with her fellow seniors, but is just about ready to impart wisdom to the young 'uns.

This troper has always fit in better with adults than with her peers. This was awkward at 10 (part of why I became so addicted to the internet in the first place) and is even worse now that I am a teenager and significantly more... ah, mature in figure. Rather than assuming "What an intelligent child!", people now assume "She's got to be just a short college student, ergo, bangable" and it's... unpleasant to rebuff. Apparently, not only do I bond well with people twice or three times my age, I also bond with people just as screwed up as me.

This troper makes a bit of a habit of this, as her poor brain gets on much better with adults than college students. The upshot is that she is now fast friends with her (female) religion teacher from senior year, who is easily three times her age, and it's gone ''way'' beyond mentor/student. (Not that way, you pervs.) This also happens frequently in said troper's high school theatre department, as the program directors (Program Head, Tech Director, and Costume Director) become surrogate parents to the cast and crew (seeing as how we scarcely see our families during tech week, it's kind of unavoidable) and we frequently go to them with personal issues. It's to the point where we call our Costume Director "Mama."

This troper has always maintained a good relationship with his uncles and grandparents, much more so than with his younger cousins. I even work part-time with my uncle painting houses, and half the time we just talk about movies and games. We also swear like sailors in the process.

My local amateur theater club. With the kind of people it attracts, it's hard to avoid. My mother and her 30-years younger friend also counts.

This troper is much closer to her family than she is to her friends. My absolute best friend in the world is my father, and I'm very close to my (seven and eight years younger) stepbrother and sister. And as a teetotaler and a nerd, I really don't get along with most people my own age (20).

This troper has always gotten along better with people outside her age group. For instance, my best friend of 13 years is more than a full year younger. My next two closest friends are 7 and 8 years older than I am. The people I work with are old enough to be my parents if not grandparents or great grandparents, and we're all very close. On the opposite end of the spectrum, little kids adore me, and so I'm usually put in charge of them. Most people my age ignore my existence, and I'm perfectly fine with that; I find the majority of them to be extremely immature and superficial, to be frank. This troper happens to be 19.

This troper tends to get along with people a lot yonger or a lot older than him. He gets along with kids because they tend to share some of his interests (ie. playing videogames and reading comics) and often find the stuff he knows (especially about dinosaurs) fashinating. He also gets along with older people as he can have mature discussions with them, and is considered to be polite and well-behaved. He doesn't have much to talk with among his own age group, and he's not very interested in stuff most people of his age do.

As a kid, This Troper always got better along with people several years older than her. Nowadays, the people on her Livejournal flist are between 15 and 46 - she's 25.

This troper always gets along better with people older than her. Consequently, almost only people she ever talks to in her neighborhood street are at least fifteen years older than her. She also likes to help take care of very small children, although since the local tyrant abruptly passed a law that you have to be eighteen to even help out in nursery, she hasn't been allowed...

Found your very own Dumbledore's Army!

I am a man in his early twenties as of this writing, and one of my best friends is a middle-aged woman. We're both amateur writers, so we talk about that a lot, and we crack all sorts of jokes that we wouldn't repeat in front of my mother.

Why? No sense of humour? :P

This troper was ostracized and ridiculed by classmates pretty much from kindergarten through eighth grade due to intelligence - eloquent speech (for a child) and an obscure sense of humor in particular. Thusly, for a long time she felt more at ease with teachers and other staff members, and maintained friendships with them instead of with the other students.

This troper never ever gets on with anyone my own age or near my age. All my friends seem to be at least six years older than me (not celebrating birthdays makes it hard to keep track of ages) and my Lego hobby makes me popular with the little kids (sometimes said friends children).

This sixteen-year-old troper is closer to his grandmother than any other family member. Also, one of his best online friends is thirty.

This troper has a ton of them. One friend is 17, another friend is 19, another is 38...she could go on.

This troper is a friend of a college professor, and I'm not talking about "I get along with her", I really mean it! We were friends; I'm in my early 20's, and she's around the late 50's, but then again, I'm an atheistic cynic man and she a devout christian woman, so the age suddenly seems like the lesser of my troubles...

This troper is doing a Uni course with a relatively small amount of fellow students. My core group of friends consists of people in their late teens, twenties, thirties and forties.

In my family, I usually get regarded as if I was born a generation before, by both that generation, and the two preceding it, despite being one of the youngest people in the family. This means I have some influence in family decisions, and a lot of freedom. The only person who makes noise about it is my mother, and sometimes my cousins.

This troper's best friend is a few years older then her mother. Apperantly I am, in fact, an old crusty man, on the inside.

Me too. My 'grumpy old man mentality' advances with each passing year...

This Troper is an only child. This causes her to relate better to adults than other teens. Her most recent addition to the {{Nakama}} is her guitar tutor. He is 45 years old, tall, scrawny, and excellent at what he does. I'm teenaged, short, overweight, and currently pretty bad at what I do. In the Troper's defense, tutor doesn't look a day over 30 or so.

This twenty one year old troper is part of an all-ages karate class and has ended up friends with a lot of people from five to fifty. Yet she rarely gets along well with people her own age. She also seems to attract small children like a magnet, through no effort of her own, and these small chidlren often turn out to be better conversationalists than they are given credit for. Go figure.

That said, her age has caused some... Minor difficulties in one of her fandoms (nothing more extreme than simply my ''liking'' a fandom that's target audience is mostly 10-15 year old boys: one she got into when she was about seventeen herself. At least one member of the forum thought it was "creepy" to have so many young adult girls (she isn't the only one) in that fandom. This Troper has resigned herself to putting up a disclaimer on her website offering to provide contact details in order to reassure people that she's ''not'' a crazy paedophile.

Is it just me, or is this far more common in RealLife than fiction would have us believe?

Yes. Yes it is.

This Troper has one. He: 45 year old Grognard who still prefers 2nd edition D&D to all others. Me: 18 years old, with 6 different rpg rule systems floating around in brain.

This fifteen year old trooper is part of a group of internet friends, all of whom range between 12 and 25. We met on an anti-Twilight website, and we've gone on to our own website. Because she tends to have a lot of friends who were held back a grade or two, she's also very close to a 20-year old.

Mira-chan shares this with both her teachers (so do her classmates) and her mom's co-workers.

This troper is pretty friendly with most of her neighbors (who are almost all her parent's age at youngest) and gets along very well with her next door neighbor who, while younger, is still a good bit older than this troper. Also, while hired as an extra in a movie, this troper spent virtually all of her free time hanging around and talking with a group of adults she befriended. One of those adults was old enough to be her father. Weirdly, because this troper hung around with him so much, she was mistaken as his wife ''four times''.

This troper is a high school senior/aspiring writer with no political leanings whose best friend on XBL is a right-wing BadassBiker grandfather who is a dead-ringer for Rick Rubin. Our mutual pastimes? FullMetalAlchemist and blowing shit up in GrandTheftAutoIV and Saints Row 2.

This troper was a loner in the last year of High School and have only very few friends among them there were two 11 and 12 girls that for some reason appreciated my odd conversations and stoicism we still hang out together sometimes now that I'm in college people at school think I'm their babysitter or their big sister. One of my best friends of my age is also a magnet to little kids and soon became very popular among her apartment population between 4 and 13.

This troper cannot stand people her own age. As a senior in highschool I hung out with freshmen and sophmores, imparting wisdom gained with my lofty advanced age. Now I'm in my twenties and all of my friends are in their thirties or forties, and my best friend in the world is pushing fifty.

Most of my friends are older than me drastically or younger than me drastically. I'm the youngest person in a certain club at school, so I hang out with 14 year olds, high-schoolers, and a grown man who uses a sander for his calluses.

14's not that young! For that to be intergenerational, you'd have to be 10 or 11 at the oldest.

This Troper is 22, and most of her long-term friends are in their late twenties to mid-forties. One, who writes historical fiction which this troper edits, is divorced and has kids, and is (I think) either late thirties or early forties. Apparently, This Troper is one of the only people who will actually let him talk for as long as he wants without getting bored and leaving.

One of This Tropers best and most loyal, helpful & dearest friends whom I met when I became her work collegue also happens to be ''the mother of one of his ex-girlfriends''.

What makes this odder is that ''she introduced me to her daughter'' and that ''she was both happy when we got together '''and''' upset when we broke up''. She ''even'' dislikes her daughters choice of replacement boyfriend. This quality of person is rare!

When I was in high school, I was a friend to the thirty-something proprietor of the local used bookstore, but then he himself. Now, of course, I can no longer bear to go there.

When ThisTroper was 12, she became friends with a young woman around 20 years old. We've long since lost contact, however...

ThisTroper's mom is good friends with a woman 17 years older than her. Better yet, the older woman has a son as old as my mom...damn.

This troper is in her early thirties and has friends all over the age map. The oldest one is 83. The youngest is twelve.

This one may be due to the fact I perform at a folk club than anything else, but I get along with people who are about three times my age much better than those my age.

A disproportionate number of ThisTroper's friends are girls under the age of thirteen :3 (Please don't look at me that way, it's nothing like that)

When This Troper was a child, she got along better with her teachers and other adults than with her classmates (in her defense most of them were jerks and stupid). Nowadays she founds most of ther peers boring and gets along with her parents friends who are at least twice her age and people her own age. Her parents might also qualify as '''their''' friends are 10 to 20 years older than them

This troper goes to a community college (started in her early teens as a part-time student, finishing up an associates now before transferring) and she's made friends there as young as 16 and as old as about 55. She's always found she's gotten along with people the best if there's at least a four-year difference between them one way or the other, so some of her friendships definitely count as this.

I (screw third person, I like first person) have a female friend in Year 12, one male friend and one female friend in Year 11, one female friend in Yr 10, I'm in Year Nine and have two male friends from that year, and my sister is in Year Seven. I seem to attract older people. Then again, anyone younger than me, that is above 12 (and sometimes even ''below''), seems to be TheLibby, in the worst ways. About the years, I'm Australian, and I'm not sure what the American equivalents are, but then again, I don't really care.

This troper is a great friend with his forty year old psychologist. The troper in question is fifteen.

My best friend is 42, I'm 18. Most of my friends are way older or younger than I am. Up until last weekend I didn't have any friends remotely close to my same age.

This Troper is like this, to the point that when my ex-girlfriend's mother paid for us all to go to Nando's for the evening, and her mother and I were engaged in a lengthy conversation about the merits of SherlockHolmes and adapting books to screen, as well as talking about how to review movies. Said girlfriend looked quite left out of the conversation. I like to think I made it up to her afterwards though :P

Why must you be so lucky? I've never had an intergenerational freindship, not for the lack of trying, I think I've had enough of it know, there's only so many times you can be threatened with arrest before you gain a phobia of children.

Might be doing it wrong? Don't try too hard...

During a good chunk of my time at my second grade school, I was more comfortable with either those younger or older than I was - helped by the fact that my year-mates considered me their favorite bullying target - and I always could hit it off with adults. It's only been in the past five or six years I've gotten used to having friends who are my age.

This troper has two close friends on Facebook, both of whom have children about my age.

This Troper was always friends with older people since she was 7.There was a female janitor in her school whom she berfriend when she was 8,then at age 13 she had friends in age range of 15-31.And for her,the best deal she could get from these was she could prove her parents at earlier age that she's reliable and she was often let for conventions with those friends despite being 13-16.Nowadays at age 22,she still have no problem befriending older people (one of her drinking buds is 61) and is often commented for being good with kids,one which is 7 and she talks with about video games

I'm so good getting this that my troubles start when I have to find a friend of my age, as everybody is either years younger or decades older. It's worrying.

My forum is like this, the youngest member is 13, and the oldest is 72, and everyone gets on great.

Sounds like me. It's especially pronounced these days, since I started college at 35 and can't think of a single sensible reason to not participate in activities even though I'm by far the oldest student there. Very rarely has anybody fussed about it, and when it does happen, someone always beats me to telling the person to get a life. Most of my friends at the moment are at least ten years younger than me, although I do have a few that are that much older.

I'm 22. I've befriended people at a local cafe who are as old as 45-50, and made friends with people who are as young as 13 or 14, mainly through cosplay.

I am 19 and one of my best friends is 53 years old. We get on really well, I never liked talking with people my own age as a teenager, as all the girls in my school were talking about boyfriends and drinking, but im asexual and dont like alcohol. I finally met others my own age who are interesting when i went to college. My older friend actually gets on quite well with my other friends too. I seem to get on with younger kids better than people my own age too, usually from babies to age 8 kids think im cool.

This Troper's best friend is almost exactly 30 years older than her, which puts him neatly at the same age as her parents. We're amused by the looks we get when we go out together to eat, as there's no way we'd be mistaken for dad and daughter.

This Troper is good friends with the kid (now late teenager) she used to babysit.

This teenage troper and a couple of her friends are good friends with a particularly kind, fatherly 42-year-old mentor-figure.

This 19 year old female troper has 36 year old male gamer friend/mentor that shares her love of {{That Guy With the Glasses}}

This 16-year-old Troper is getting along very well, with her sisters crowd. (My sister is 26, her friends 24 to 33) and is best friends with one of them who`s 31.

This troper has a history of having more in common with people ''not'' her own age- sometimes kids, but usually adults at least 7 years older than her. During elementary school, she preferred having discussions with teachers to playing with kids.

This 13 year old troper, despite how she sometimes acts, is fairly mature for her age. This makes it much easier for her to relate to those older than her, to the point that her mother sometimes finds herself confiding in me. Similarly, before I revealed my age on teh interwebz, most of the people she spoke to, both regularly and every so often, thought that she was 18 years old.

Two of this 17-year-old troper's best friends are 5 years old and 51 years old.

This now college-age troper became good friends with her high school English teacher, who was a mother of two herself (her son is actually in my dad's third grade class). She was somewhere in her early to mid-thirties. It helps that we were both involved in community theater and had a lot of shared interests. We could carry on entire conversations about movies and books while the rest of the class looked on in awe. We're even friends on Facebook!

My children (currently college and high school age) got me involved in community theater. As a result we have a number of mutual friends, who are more than 20 years younger than I. Several of them are now also friends with my wife. For that matter, I'm pretty good friends with my kids.

This troper (20 at time of writing) is good mates with almost everyone in the factory where I work. The youngest of them are in their mid-thirties; the oldest in 63.

This troper's first friend was in her mid thirties when they met (for reference troper was 8), and now they're best friends. Her other best friend is in her mid twenties and they met when this troper was 18. Though in this case there was a RelationshipUpgrade moving this to MayDecemberRomance. On the other hand all of her good friends are much older or younger than her, and she can count the ones her own age on one hand.

For reasons this 20-year-old male troper cannot fathom, he has somehow managed to acquire not 1, not 2, but a TRIO of plucky 10-year-old female sidekicks. I pick them up from school, help them with their homework, tell them family-friendly versions of books and movies I've seen and read, and even babysit them when their parents go out (they never pay me for it because they know I won't refuse). They come to my Taekwondo matches, bring me lemonade when I'm doing yardwork, and even call me "Uncle Josh."