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I turned 18 last year, and I do not feel like an adult lol
Bad news: you're probably not going to feel that way when you hit 29. Possibly even 89.
I felt like an adult at 16 working in the restaurant, dating and making my first profit on gold
I always did everything early like when I became a terrible teenager at 9 and dispelled it all by the age of 11
What’s the difference between an adult and a child?
Ability to make lots of Money and sex
Child: Less responsibilities but you aren't free, your life is decided by whatever the adults in your life say.
Adult: While having a lot of responsibilities, you are also now free from adults abusive control.
@FinalFantasyBro a child can have responsibilities of taking care of their parent, home work, their siblings. Some adults can just hop on welfare and never have any responsibilities. adults can get bullied by other adults (that’s what a job is lol)
Yeah! I understand I were basically discussing about when you doesn't have responsibilities, as a child literally everything were decided by my parents. I don't miss that one bit!
It’s not about responsibility. Responsibility is doing what is expected of you. I know well behaved children that are children. It’s about accountability. When you mess up do you own up and learn? Do you try and never repeat past mistakes? Accountability is the difference between a child and an adult. Responsibility has less to do with your label than your compatibility with society. And maturity determines your position in society.
If you judge adulthood like this then most people in their 20s and 30s fail to meet standards.
For me I was a child under the rule of adults growing up. “When I’m 18” was my phrase… theirs was “you won’t live to 18”. I matured slow due to being anti-social and extremely introverted. It sucks but it’s kewl because growing up being mentally and socially a child but looked at as an adult I got a different look at adulthood and many others things. As a child I took for granted what the adults accomplished while as an adult I think… fuck this. Life comes at me and I don't know the best solution to the problems it throws at me. But I’m still here still working still growing still strong.
I don’t think you ever know the moment you become an adult. You feel ready to take on adulthood when you strike out whenever that may be but it’s not until you’ve completed college, worked a 60+ hour work week for years, come home and do dishes despite being exhausted that you realize… I’m an adult. This is an adult.
Don’t worry about being an adult. Rarely when someone refers to themselves as an adult are they mature enough to truly be an adult. Others determine if your an adult not you… you just show them what you are so they can judge you.
Welcome to society.
I was out of high school, working full time and commuting into the city every day and half a day on Saturday. That is when I felt like an adult but I was too busy to think much about it.
I honestly felt like a mature adult around 28. My personality changed, saw the big picture of things from then on, and very calm. Especially feel like one now owning my house and living alone.
I used to feel like a kid lol I think people feel like a adult in let's say 22 or 23 that's my age and now I feel like one or maybe when they start working
I felt like an adult long before I was 18, my parents kind of forced me to grow up fast.
I felt like an adult the first time I gave a crap about home furnishings 👀
No, not at all.. you’ll still feel like a child because nobody respects you as an adult until you’re of legal drinking age which is strange..
I'm 63 and don't feel like an adult.
I'm just me.
No. I'm 43 and there are STILL times when I don't think myself as an adult. :D
I am 34 years old and still waiting to feel like an adult
Yep, went and bought my first pistol, pack of smokes, registered for the draft and joined the Army all in the same day.
Sorta. I sang happy birthday to my orifices and then I enjoyed a multiple input encounter. :)
I still don't feel like an adult and it still feels weird that I'm my own responsibility now
I've been acting like I'm going to 8th grade... not even close.
No because turning 18 doesn't make a person an adult, being independant does.
It happens differently for different people but I think you're onto something. I think most people get there in late 20s and 30s
i’m 19 but i feel like a child but people always treat me like an adult