[Closed] When did you realise that you were an adult?

[i]So when did you become an adult? [/i]

I'm 46 in my head I'm still about 12 years old.

I do try and behave like a grown up most of the time or my kids give me funny looks.

About a month ago..

When I dated an 18 year old and realised how old I was.

When I had the responsiblity of looking after Jnr FD at the age of 37.

When I sorted out my work pension scheme about a month ago, at 23 :\

I haven't yet. I think [url= http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html ]Ms Brosh explains it best[/url].

"I can't even look at young girls any more.
People will think I'm some kind of pervert.
No more 'boy meets girl, boy loses girl'
More like: 'Man tries to figure out what the hell went wrong"

Define being an adult?

I was self sufficient in my 20's after Uni.
I had a child in my 30's

I do a lot of the things adults do but as a 45yr old Male I think I'm still classed as a child by most measures.

I ride my bike a lot and like getting muddy
I make cars with guns out of Lego with my daughter 9 who yesterday commented on how I was really just a big kid)
repeat until bored...

When you've never heard of some of the words teenagers are using, For me it was when the word "schizzle" started being used, still not got a clue!

[i]I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
[/i]

[edit] actually I was grown up when the lyrics of this song seemed ot have resonance for me.

When I went to an 18 year old's Birthday party and realised mine was a decade ago. Everyone there looked like the cast of Skins and the music sucked.

A combo of what TSY and makeitorange said.

21:41 15 October 2011.

When songs you liked as a kid are now 30+ years old.

Pffft, it'll never happen!

When I first offered someone a job and became responsible for them and their dependents' welfare as well as for me and mine.

About last week when I bought a filing cabinet and put a folder in it marked "Pension". I'm 26.

*hangs head in shame*

When I first offered someone a job and became responsible for them and their dependents' welfare as well as for me and mine.

I turned 40 this year.

I'll let you know when it happens.

About last week when I bought a filing cabinet and put a folder in it marked "Pension". I'm 26.

Ha, you've just made me feel young. Time to hit on teenagers again me thinks.

if your ugly you need to become an adult now , . . if your handsome you don't.

Saturday afternoon just gone. I was at a family BBQ and told some of the assorted kids (not mine) to stop throwing ice cubes at each other. They, obviously, asked "why?". My response of "Because I said so" stopped them doing it immediately.

Unfortunately, I also woke up the next day feeling old, decrepit and worn out, so it was not all good.

First time I carried a family members coffin out of their house.

I think, without sounding lachrymose, it was probably the first time my heart got seriously broken that I realised I had become an adult.

I was about 24. Everything changed, perspective-wise, after that.

@MF yup, have that badge too!

When I could go to sleep with an open & unfinished bottle of alcohol in the house.

On a cold night ride, I cycled past a group of young, attractive, scantily clad ladies leaving a night club. My reaction would've been "phwoar!" now it's "you'll catch your death".

I suppose it was when i held my child in my arms. 😳
I was 28.

1. Parenthood.

2. Songs from my yoof and the DJs that played them now on Radio 2.

3. Looking after ageing parents.

4. Going to more funerals than weddings.

5. When a hot drink and a cold woman replaced a cold drink and a hot woman.

mostly I feel like a teenager, but my job puts me in adult situations and I feel like a fraud, or that at any moment someone is going to out me as the child I think I am!

Talking of unfinished bottles of alcohol..
I have a very nice bottle of French Red that I opened the week before last and it's still half full sitting on the side with a vacuum stopper in it..
Being an Adult now I'm torn between supping it gently and downing it in one sitting..

"will decide this evening"

As a caveat I’m still riding bikes as hard as I can and still trying to beat my mates up hills.. and sometimes I ride my roadie without a helmet and just a casquette.

When I turned 18 and my Dad told me I needed to decide on a signature and stick with it as I would be signing all kinds of stuff from then on.

The first time that someone called me Mr (surname), after my dad had died.

That had always been his name, until then.

As someone who is about to turn 37 and planning on getting back into skateboarding, I found this from Lance Mountain

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You're as old as you feel, and some days I feel about 60, but it passes when someone says "poo"

I'm still astounded with the amount of things I'm allowed to do.

I'm allowed to drive a car or a motorbike, I can drive a lorry or operate heavy machinery. I can be responsible for other people. I can own a house or a credit card, I can help elect someone to office. I can smoke and drink without fear of retribution, I can become a father and can go to prison.

All these things have been allowed because my body is older than eighteen years old. No wonder the world is in such a terrible state. At eighteen I was a tiny child. Many men remain in this state their entire lives.

I think I became an adult in my late twenties. I keep slipping back though. I'll still occassionally think that a fight would solve a problem or that I'll win the lottery but i'm gradually growing out of those too.

My dad first showed me the internet back in the mid-nineties and I couldn't understand his jubilation at having on-demand access to weather forecasts. The weather didn't matter to me; I had a world of opportunity ahead whether rain or shine. I don't know how, but gradually I have grown up; something has died inside me. I think my various dreams and aspirations have dissolved into the single hope that there will be sunshine in the next 5 days.
I became an adult when I gleefully downloaded a Weather app.

you know your old when your shit smells as bad as your dads did growing up.

I read somewhere recently that you become an adult when your relationship with your parents changes from them looking after you, to the other way around.. not sure I completely agree but I understand the sentiment...

For me becoming a parent a 34 (5 years ago) was a big deal.. I can remember walking out fo the hospital with our baby in the car seat thingy, with a tear rolling down my cheak thinking "wow, life will never be the same again"

I guess Mortgages/marriage/pensions all play theri part aswell..

My younger brother is also unwell at the moment (fighting the big C), and is facing a very uncertain future.. this also makes me feel very grown up for some reason (all to do with taking on responsibility for our parents if he isn't around I s'pose?)

i have no intention of becoming an adult (i'm 37 😀 😳

I tried bring an adult in the early half of my thirties. It sucked. Now I'm just me.

I think my liver made this decision when it decided to stop me drinking more than 5 pints without a 3 day hangover - so about 36 then.

Also getting a big mortgage and realising I couldn't just walk from my job without there being consequences for my family - so maybe at around 34 then.

I'm struggling with being an adult so this topic is a bone of contention. I've just turned 30 and suddenly feel like I should be making mature decisions and doing sensible things. I've already purchased a house, got married (no kids - not yet) and it's recently dawned on me that I shouldn't be doing or even contemplating silly child like things. I should be saving money, having one 2 week summer holiday abroad, pushing hard for promotion, earning more money, working more hours, eating sensible foods and buying a sensible car.

Makes me sad thinking about it though. 😥

You're never too old to have a happy childhood.

At a wedding the other week speaking to my m8's sister and her 16 year old daughter, I realised we (my age group) were the 'adults' attending the function... very scary.

40 going on 21 here...