ok I got my cat like 3 years ago and he was an adult, but he acts like a little kid. We have to tuck him in every night and give him his treat food. I have never seen a cat act this way. At 7:30 at night he sits and stares and my mom for 20 minutes until we put him night night. If you ignore him he jumps on and off of furniture constantly. Is this normal for a cat or is mine just one of the crazy ones that are out there?
Keep in mind that there is a paradigm shift in the animal kingdom that has "mortal enemies" raising and caring for each other. I have seen a cat, dog and rat trio that were inseparable - taking care of each other. When a family wanted to adopt the DOG, she was told the trio were inseperable, and so the family actually adopted all three.
I am also reminded of a tigress that adopted a lion cub, raised her, and the lioness became part of her family. The lion would watch the tigress cubs, the cubs knew the lioness as an "aunt," and they even found comfort in her (like suckling.)
Your cat sounds like it is "evolving" hehe... More realistically, the cat is showing compound, complex emotions perhaps otherwise dismissed as only human.
You never know what the animal has been through, and why it behaves the way it does.
A family adopted a dog that would watch the parents sleep every night. It would put its paws on the "doggy gate," and peer into the room of the parents until they fell asleep.
Turns out the family that owned the dog previously faked going to sleep, waited for the dog to sleep, and then took him to the pound. He woke up "in jail." Your cat (since you say you got him as an adult) may be showing emotional hierarchy of needs - like humans (used to do.)
They know who mama is!
