I think there's enough evidence that psychologically our personality becomes tied to a certain age, for some it might be the peak of your time in highschool, ot

I think there's enough evidence that psychologically our personality becomes tied to a certain age, for some it might be the peak of your time in highschool, others college, and we stick with it despite the cognitive dissonance from aging. It wouldn't necessarily be a stagnation of maturity, but simply how we perceive ourselves as lessons learned in adulthood merge and compound with your idealized younger self.