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> My adulthood litmus test has always been the following: > > If you know what date it is every day, you are an adult. Tangent - My definition of "adult" th
by inanutshellus 2y ago
> My adulthood litmus test has always been the following:
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> If you know what date it is every day, you are an adult.
Tangent - My definition of "adult" that I came up with as an early teen:
"When I realize I'm looking in the _driver's seat_ of passing cars hoping to see pretty girls, that will mean I'm `an adult`.".
Years later I had a palpable shock moment in which I glanced in a car and remembered coming up with the definition. "OH CRAP I'm an adult!"
Felt like a "hoist by my own petard" moment.
- xandrius 2y agoI generally unbundle age and adulthood. For me the definition has always been "an adult owns up to their own mistakes". Which is the shorter version of "A child doesn't care about their mistakes, a teenager expects others to fix them and an adults own up to them". This allows me to categorise older people who I feel like don't act like adults.
- aradox66 2y agoThis is an adult's definition of an adult
- itishappy 2y agoMaybe defining "adult" is the definition for adult?
- aradox66 2y agoNah no way, as some of the above definitions show, children - or at least teenagers/"young adults" -clearly conjure definitions of the adult. There is definitely a difference though between defining an adult from the inside vs outside
- firecraker 2y agoOnly when trying to assert that you are not one
- inanutshellus 2y agoI think it's the definition of a moral person, not an adult, but I do like it.
- inanutshellus 2y agoYes, shockingly my tween-made definition of adult wasn't very adult. ;)
- woleium 2y agoi used to say i would become an adult the Saturday i go to buy myself a couch. Younger folk get their couches on any day and usually from facebook/craigslist/local classifieds
- senkora 2y agoMy definition that I came up with college was that adults had full spice racks in their kitchens. I had recently gotten into cooking and was annoyed that it didn't really make sense to buy spices that I would have to throw away at the end of the school year. (I lived out of my suitcase, so space was at a premium). I am now very happy with my full spice rack.
- throwup238 2y ago> I am now very happy with my full spice rack. There are so many ways to interpret that. Being an adult is all about ambiguity!