Older adults, what age do you begin to ACTUALLY take young adults seriously?

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Older adults, what age do you begin to ACTUALLY take young adults seriously?

D_Bone_Steak · Accepted Answer

Oh gawed... hard to say. The gap between intelligence and wisdom is fucking vast. There's very intelligent people that are just fucking retarded because they lack basic reasoning.

lolz, we called them 'Nukes' in the military. Because they're ultra smart, school wise, but fucking A... give them something basic or a basic thing to do... they will nuke it. They'll go full retard with something as basic as using a push broom.

I don't think age gives wisdom or intelligence... book smarts comes easy for some people though... but they have to learn how to apply it.

RebelinSteel · Accepted Answer

I take people by their actions and how they are, I’ve seen boys at 12 able to work out fairly advanced mechanics and apply that knowledge. I went to school with girls and boys that were running their own business at 16. A lot is down to just respecting other peoples views, that is not really age related as I know people my age and older that I have zero respect for. Maturity hits some early and they act on it, it also does not necessarily require that school level intelligence, just not being immature 100% of the time.

IslaTheWitch · Accepted Answer

I take every person seriously... an older or younger adult or a kid... it's a matter of respect...

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

Anything over 25 when that prefrontal cortex has finished developing

Anonymous · Answer

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ProbablyClueless · Answer

Basically it ends up about 30 ish before anyone takes you seriously.

I once had a conversation with guy in his 70s and he asked me some question to the effect of "are you keeping busy?" When I told him that I was and that I had cleared a bunch of stuff off my plate, he asked me my age. When I told him I was 30, he said "oh okay, so you're at a point of life where you start really understand what that means."

jamesgoldman · Answer

No idea, I found it happened when I was 16 but I was working in a restaurant and had had my own business for half my life
I already knew my field proficiently but I also therefore sounded, looked and acted like I was much older (I was invited to a nightclub and at work given a lot more drinks that I probably should have been)

handsomelad70 · Answer

If they have something intelligent to say.(Remember that "All In The Family" episode in which a man comforts his oft-bullied special-needs son by giving him a plaque which says [paraphrasing to fit 2024 realities],"Everyone is my superior because I can learn from them.) There's a 14-year-old G@Gger who is less than one-fifth my age, yet she can tell me something I don't know.

DrPepper12 · Answer

15-18 for me. As a HS teacher i discovered if you treat them like adults they will ACT like adults. But cobtemporary answer, post college / military / trade school AND moved out are the two prerequisites.

exitseven · Answer

It is not really an age. Lots of people have protracted adolesenses and others become people who go to college, get jobs, join the military and get married.

NathanDavis · Answer

I started to take things more seriously around age 22... and that was a bit late, to be honest, lol

Nikki1989 · Answer

Women, 21 + Men, 30 +

lightbulb27 · Answer

when they take responsibility and ownership and that varies by age. in 20's for most.

Anonymous · Answer

I would say it's less an age and more a mindset. But that mindset begins typically around 30. I think there's something about that age where you start taking stock of your life, stop living day to day and start making long term plans, etc.

Danny_dan92 · Answer

When they act their age. Aka not like immature teenagers

BlackSwan09 · Answer

They never do. They get retired and you start interacting with people your age but adults. And the older people are moved to the side. The conflicts remain.

Anonymous · Answer

As someone who’s turning 30 soon, I consider anyone 27+ to be “proper adults”.

jahaims · Answer

It has nothing to do with age. It depends on their maturity level.

onedarkcloud · Answer

At whatever age they start acting like responsible adults and not like assholes.

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

I take them serious by their actions.

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

Wisdom isn't measured by age.

Pterodon · Answer

The day you join the military

najekim · Answer

Depends on the maturity of the person.

Ladsin2 · Answer

I’m 30 and anyone younger than me is a kid.

yes_goddess · Answer

Anything over 25

MK1997 · Answer

18...

RedInnocent69 · Answer

Um, you don’t.

noohair · Answer

My age or their age?

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