At what age did you start feeling like an adult?

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When do you think you reached that emotional and mental maturity?

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  1. brunetteskeleton Avatar

    At 21 when I found out that I was pregnant

  2. Ornery_Dot1397 Avatar

    Still waiting at 41 years old

  3. StrongDog2575 Avatar

    Almost 30 and still feel like a highschooler with imposter syndrome. I do live a fairly put together and successful life though, so idk, maybe it never happens.

  4. Jumpy_Test4527 Avatar

    Feel like a kid and grown ass woman who’s lived a hundred years at the same time

  5. Relevant_Potato_1335 Avatar

    35 , with a kid and I myself still feel like I’m 19/20 just with a job and a teenager. 😂

    Often times I find myself searching for an adult and I’m like : ah beans

  6. princedubacon Avatar

    After the age of 35

  7. msstark Avatar

    I’ll let you know when it happens.

    Currently 35, married, own a home, pregnant on purpose.

  8. Whatisitmom Avatar

    I’m a minor adult. I’ve only been a full fledged adult for ONLY 10 years. Once I reach 21 years of adulthood Im sure I’ll feel like and actual adult.

  9. 624Seeds Avatar

    I think most people feel like they’re the same person they were in their 20’s, but their body keeps aging. My FIL says he feels like a 25 year old trapped in an old body.

  10. Far-Lynx-4482 Avatar

    I’ll tell you when I reach it.

  11. lavenderbear79 Avatar

    Age 20. I started feeling like an adult, but at 23 I don’t think I’m 100% emotionally and mentally mature. Maybe like 96% 😂

  12. bhornung11 Avatar

    when i started to pay off my student loans

  13. sugarsodasofa Avatar

    I’m 25. I have started thinking most of my coworkers are stupid instead of cool

  14. TheBarbed_Wire Avatar

    24, When I experienced an acute manic episode at 23, I was hospitalized, stabilized and then went through a high drama break up with my partner of 4 years.

    I moved back home after that and I spent a year working on myself, met my current spouse, started a new life and emerged an adult at some point.

  15. ApollosBucket Avatar

    Starting to at 33 🙂

  16. HeelsOfTarAndGranite Avatar

    Probably somewhere between 7 to 9?

    My father died a month after I turned seven and my mother…well, she tried her best, but she could also go into rages and she did things like refuse to listen to me when we were on the beach and the clouds looked threatening, and then we got caught in a sandstorm. She also did not make good choices for partners after my father. Oh, and the time when I read the children’s Bible, somewhere around 8 maybe, and I asked her how dinosaurs could exist for millions of years before humans if the world was created in seven days and she said, “Days were a lot longer back then.” I was like oh okay the Bible isn’t real and you aren’t very capable of understanding reality.

    So yeah, I’ve felt responsible for myself for as long as I can remember.

  17. milllllllllllllllly Avatar

    29 here with a 7 year old. On my 4th house (I’m a veteran so I have VA loans which help a ton) and I feel like I’m finally at a time where I have wisdom and look at younger woman with hope for them

  18. _lustandsin Avatar

    Well, I got pregnant at 28 and cried a lot because I didn’t know how to tell my mom. I live on my own since I was 20 🤣

    Still feel like a teenager looking for an adult in serious situations only to realize that I am THE adult

  19. MountainWarning2868 Avatar

    I turned 25 last August and until recently I still felt like I was 17 😭

  20. liliesinbloom Avatar

    Whenever I realized that just because I can doesn’t mean I should.

  21. brendamrl Avatar

    On my 25th birthday when my biggest life project got completely shattered and my first and only thought was “well, you did it from scratch once, you’ll do it better and faster now”