• Zangoose@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Hate to break it to you but people born in 2006 are turning 18 this year (and are technically considered “adults”).

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      5 months ago

      Having just turned 43, I can tell you that I don’t think I became an adult until my early/mid 30s.

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        5 months ago

        This is a truth that everyone under 30 denies until the day they turn 30. It’s like a magic spell is suddenly broken, and you realize you’re alone in an aging meat husk that now knows the glory of back pain.

        I know a young person will read this and think this won’t happen to them. To that person: I am you from the future. Remember us as we were.

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          I think it’s kinda like the old dating age formula; you can date people (your age) / 2 + 7 years old, and you feel like that’s the age of an adult.

          When I was 15 I felt like ann adult, but people younger than me were teens. When I was 25 I felt like an adult but people under the age of like 20 were just kids. Now I feel like people in their early/mid-20s are just about adults. I’m sure when I’m 50 I’ll think back to myself now and consider myself barely an adult.

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        5 months ago

        I’m 40 and it seems like I can continually look back at myself from five years ago and think damn I was an idiot back then. I wonder how I will feel in five years…