I never really liked this question. The article even states verbatim why I have this feeling. "Adulthood is a social construct." So when we're saying "are yo

I never really liked this question. The article even states verbatim why I have this feeling. "Adulthood is a social construct." So when we're saying "are you an adult?" I'd like to ask what are we REALLY getting at. An ability to handle X class of situations? An ability to make X levels of abstract reasoning about social processes? There are so many and so variable a set of objective and subjective markers that any sort of broad statement seems useless, at best, deceptive and detracting from the actual markers at worst. I had a conversation with my father once, something along the lines of, "We really all just get better at pretending, don't we?" I'm not sure what my "Central point" of this post is, (and it's far from my more rigorously argued ones) so take it as a collection of thoughts on how I've found the most "personal enlightenment" regarding adulthood, as a rather transparent contrived construct; realizing this was (perhaps ironically given my thesis on this) my internal moment of "I have reached adulthood".