For most people never.
Petulant middle-aged children as far as the eye can see with few exceptions.
I remember one time someone told me “being an adult is when you realise you can cook yourself bacon whenever you want, and just eat it, and nobody will stop you”.
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18 years old, no need to complicate it
Self-sufficiency, responsibility
Apparently it depends on skin colour and the severity of the charges. /s
When all your dreams are dead.
Nice, already grown up after my parents didnt buy me the console I always wanted when I was 9.
When you are legally considered that in your country’s law. Any other distinction is fuzzy and unlikely to be really useful.
No guarantee that you are gonna be an adult once you reach a certain age treshold, though. There are many children in grown people’s bodies out there.
When your first child starts walking and destroying things.
When they start thinking about the consequences of their actions, and act accordingly instead of following pure impulse.
When I was in college (so maybe 20 or 21 years old), I asked my mom when I would start feeling like an adult. Without missing a beat, she said “I dunno. If you find out, let me know!” <3
I guess I started feeling more like a “real” adult when I started working full-time and rented a house instead of an apartment, though now even that pales in comparison to when I finally purchased my own home. Each phase of life feels more “grown-up” than the last, with new perspectives, greater understanding of my relationships with God and people, and matured confidence going into the new phase’s challenges. And yet I’m still me at heart–as I like to call it, “a big kid with bills.” I am very blessed.
You get your adult trophy after a serious bout of cleaning
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html
Never. There is no line to cross, no milestone, nothing.
You will always be the same entity you are now. You should always work to improve yourself, but the stream of consciousness that is “you” is always going to be the same you.
Every day you wake up 1 day older and have 1 more day of accumulated experience. It’s that accumulated experience that makes people think you’re an “adult”.
If you really absolutely need to assign a binary “I’m an adult” label, I think it’s the day you realize that there is no such thing as an adult and all the people you thought were adults and therefore could handle adult responsibilities were actually just making it all up as they went, the same as you are doing right now.
Well said. At this point in my life I can say I am an adult, but I can’t say when it happened. It was just a dawning realization one day, that was oh, “I’m the adult now.”
for me it was when I was responsible for more than just myself.
I’m responsible for my spouse, my kids, the team I managed, etc.
I have to say, it’s not worth it 🤣
Well, in the legal sense, I suppose it has to do with contracts and contract law. Some time ago in the US, it was determined that 18 was the legal age for adulthood because by then a person would be old enough to understand the terms of a contract and hold to those terms. Marriage is a contract. Military service is a contract. Getting a loan/mortgage is a contract.
