When Did You Feel Like an Adult?

[LoathedVermin72]

I'm sure there aren't many people out there who immediately felt like an adult when they turned 18. So at what age did you finally, actually feel like a real adult? Was there any specific event or feeling that triggered it?

[spike]

I’d say 30-35 is when I started achieving true, boring adult state. Combo of getting married and a parent dying. You begin to realize why a slog life is going to be.

And if you get lucky
You might find someone
To help you get over
The pain that will come

[wease]

Probably around 27 or so when I got married. I no longer really looked at my parents as a fallback in case things didn’t go well. (Although we did move in with her parents for a little while between houses.) And if that didn’t do it, the birth of our first child 3 years later cemented it. (And now, she’s gonna graduate college in a month-and-a-half.)

[Rangi Guy]

Still waiting

[Ello Sailor]

Still waiting

For real. When do farts stop being funny?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Still waiting

For real. When do farts stop being funny?

If they stop I’m offing myself

[BurtReynolds]

40. Can't pretend I'm young anymore.

[The Argonaut]

I've done this a bunch of times only to realize years later I was mostly wrong. I feel like an adult now but I'm sure future argo would be laughing if he could hear me say that. "How immature," he would scoff

[LoathedVermin72]

The answer for me is 30. Somehow I just felt a switch flip inside on that birthday. But it was a very positive thing, I don’t mean it in the, “I’m old and life is boring now” way spike said.

[BurtReynolds]

I dreaded turning 30 but my thirties turned out to be awesome. I thought 40 wouldn't be so bad, but I am decaying in real time and everything hurts and people are dying and I want to take a nap.

[spike]

I dreaded turning 30 but my thirties turned out to be awesome. I thought 40 wouldn't be so bad, but I am decaying in real time and everything hurts and people are dying and I want to take a nap.

Heh, yeah. I decided to have a kid at 42 on top of all that nonsense.

[washing machine]

Like most of you, when I got married. Actually, more like when I got engaged. Being present for somebody else and being able to ask for help from somebody else overlaps a lot with what adulthood means to me.

And then I had a kid relatively late in life and the experience of watching toddlerhood and kindergarten in real time has me kind of feeling young again.

[Jorge]

I remember the exact moment. I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.

[washing machine]

I thought about this thread today when I watched clumps of my grey hair fall down the sides of my barber chair.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I remember the exact moment. I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.

[daft twat]

Most of the things I thought would make me feel that way did not.

I moved across the country with my girlfriend and began my teaching career. We got married and moved back. We took international vacations and bought a house. I turned 30. We had a kid. Then we had another. None of that made me feel like an adult. I remember the moment, though.

Our kids were 2 and a half and almost 1 and my wife had to leave for 4 days for work. I remember one of the days was Halloween and I was handing out candy with a baby on my hip, a toddler clutching my ankle, a nervous cat. That night after I got them to bed, I sat there completely exhausted and thought. “I’m a fucking adult.”

The next time I felt like an adult was taking the first family vacation. Every time I do that, I feel like a man.

[spike]

Som people feel like an adult after they feel an adult.

[Bammer]

When I bought my first condo and that following Christmas my gift wish list changed from video games to stuff like light bulbs and silverware.

[VinylGuy]

Probably around when i was 14, my mom separated my sister´s dad and it was truly hard for everyone so i needed to step up and do a lot of stuff in the house.

Also around 16 when a few of my old friends died for substance abuse, i feel i learned a lot from that too. Kinda made me more interested on doing stuff and keep trying to be around.

[Anders]

Before I turned 18 for sure.