/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9356467
I couldn't even make a minute into either of those... holy shit what a nightmare

>lone lolita, recently turned 25
>insecure about joining a comm at my age
>/cgl/ assures me it will be fine and there will likely be lots of other people my age and older
>okay I can do this

>first meet, everything going well so far
>girls start talking about Misako, age and when people should stop wearing lolita
>”I feel like now that I’m 21 I should stop wearing sweet and move to classic lolita. I’m definitely going to stop after I’m 25 lol, that’s way too old and not cute.”
>everyone seems to agree, and people comment that they’ll do the same when they reach her age
>I am surrounded by teenagers
>they start talking about Melanie Martinez, ask me what school I go to and what my parents and classmates think of me wearing lolita
>I awkwardly tell them that I work a full-time job, my coworkers don’t know about lolita and my parents don’t care what I wear anymore but my husband thinks lolita is cute
>their faces when they realize I’m ~old~
>they keep bringing it up during the meet and asking questions like I’m some kind of alien grandma

My husband and I are planning on buying a house and want to start a family in the coming few years, which will undoubtedly create an even bigger lifestyle gap between these girls and I. Is there any point in sticking with this comm? Other than me, the oldest person is a 24-year-old guy who wears thrifted "aristocrat" and keeps inserting broken Japanese into his speech and calling everyone princesses. I feel like it's going to be really hard to connect with anyone.