What age/stage in life do you consider adulthood?

[yeghor]

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Thanks...Wish I knew it in my teens...

 

[FDG]

past college.

 

[Mole]

I was talking about adulthood, maturity may never come.

Yes, our brain is not fully grown until we are about 22.

 

[Nijntje]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Ahhh.

Oh wow.

Sorry. *wipes tear*

For everyone else 28, for me, never.

 

[Mole]

We are mature when we can have reciprocal relationships and good reality contact.

If this is true, there are so many of us who are not mature.

So some think there is a cultural imperative to keep us immature so we can be more easily controlled.

 

[skylights]

I think I'm seeing a few different "adulthood" points in my life. First would be legal adulthood at 18... and the semi-independence of college, since I was still mostly supported by my parents. Then college graduation at 22 and entering the "real world". Getting my own place and becoming financially independent shortly thereater. And then I'm looking forward to finishing school and starting a career, and hopefully getting married and having children. Maybe it's less some clear dividing line and more like milestones along a winding, sometimes looping path.

I do like the new term "Emerging Adulthood" that has arisen in life development/psychology fields to describe the post-adolescent, pre-independent person, usually encompassing 18-25 but could easily last into the early 30s.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

When you outgrow your man tits.
(On that note, I am still a boy)

 

[CheshireCat]

I think adulthood is a hoax.
Childhood is a hoax.
Obsessively segregating people into age groups since birth is bad jubjub.

 

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[HollyGolightly]

I don't think I will ever reach adulthood. I feel like there will always be things I am too young to understand. I'm very childlike in many ways and I just don't see myself ever catching up. I'm really unsure how I'd define adulthood. When I was a kid I thought adulthood meant you knew the answer to everything...lol.

 

[Odi et Amo]

I think I might know once my frontal cortex develops...

 

[Comeback Girl]

Adulthood is when you start drinking red wine because you actually like it and not just because you want to appear smart or intellectual. I don't think I'll ever become an adult, I can't imagine growing to like wine, let alone RED wine.

 

[garbage]

We're extending adolescence further and further out. People are getting married later and later, undergrad has become the new high school, etc.

It's mostly a good thing. More time for a holistic development before we get shoved out into the world.

Adulthood is when you start drinking red wine because you actually like it and not just because you want to appear smart or intellectual. I don't think I'll ever become an adult, I can't imagine growing to like wine, let alone RED wine.

Red wine rules.

is erm uh

what I'd say if I were old

 

[Elfboy]

I'd say between 17-27 depending on the person

 

[Abbey]

I would imagine it's something one just feels at a certain point. I'm 17 and definitely still a child--legally and nonlegally. I feel like my definition of being a child is sitting on the ground in the middle of a store because your mom is shopping and you're bored and tired and now you're lying down, but no one really cares because children can do whatever they want and it's not weird.

 

[prplchknz]

We're extending adolescence further and further out. People are getting married later and later, undergrad has become the new high school, etc.

It's mostly a good thing. More time for a holistic development before we get shoved out into the world.
Red wine rules.

is erm uh

what I'd say if I were old

red wine and whiskey are my weakness

 

[Eugene Watson VIII]

I'm 20 and don't feel like an adult yet. Adulthood seems to be about responsibilities and role modeling but I don't really have either of those besides some commitment to music, work and study. I pay for board so it feels like I'm flatting to a certain degree but that's about it. Yep. :S

 

[Azure Flame]

I was an adult at age 15 and Ive been getting younger ever since.

 

[badger055]

Pretty sure I'm a permanent 12 year old. I don't think 7s ever really age. I'm 26 and not above laughing at poop jokes.

Although I guess on the outside my persona becomes more dominant with age/experience.

 

[AzulEyes]

I see adulthood as reaching puberty.
So I guess there is immature adulthood and mature adulthood.
There are 20 year olds more mature than 40 year olds.
But adulthood in general is once you can procreate. If you can be someone's mother or father- you are an adult. Even if you are immature.