Relatively emotionally intelligent, mature as well. Although it's taken many years, experiences, social interaction, life lived. It's likely that I'm consistently ten years behind people of my age, which is fifty-seven. Before that, and into my late forties emotional maturity was probably more regressive than that, twenty or so years earlier than my age at the time.
As a female with autism, I have little difficulty reading facial expressions existing on the surface. Something of an 'interest' since I was a child. Yet deeper emotions in people are more difficult to fathom, and I seem to have more interest in animals than in people. I understand animal behavior much better than I do people as it relates to emotion. It could be that my interest in animals has won out, over my interest in people. As I spend far more time with them now.
I'm able to recall very well, feelings I had as a child and seem to be more in touch with those feelings than most adults. My memory is almost eidetic related to those early years.
Perhaps those emotions are something I don't wish to forget, as they help me to remember what is and was important from the very beginnings of my life. Who I was and am now, is not all that different. It might be that's the reason we are thought of as 'childish.' As others once they are adults, seem to forget or put behind that most important and defining aspect of self.