At what age did you finally feel like an “adult”?

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1. I just turned 23 yesterday and I still feel like I’m in the limbo between kid and adult, but getting closer.

2. 31… Definitely not an adult!
   Lol.

   That isnt true. I moved away from home at 18, and was going to school and working multiple jobs in my early 20s. I felt like an adult then.

   I just still act like a teenager on the internet. Lol

3. After purchasing a house at 26. It’s silly but having a mortgage makes me feel like a grown up.

4. I’ll let you know when i get there lol, currently 27

5. 18- I had to be fully independent and self-supporting at that point, so I had to be an adult and handle my life on my own.

6. After I had a child and started working at a place that didn’t know me before kids.

7. 22 – Adulthood hit hard after undergraduate school.

8. I was born old I guess because I started working fulltime at 16 and immediately started taking care of my finances, my credit, and planning for the future.

9. As a 33 year old, I’ll let you know when it happens.

   I felt fully independent at 16, though, as that was when I moved out and away from my family and social circles, became self-supporting and handled my life on my own.

10. Im 24 (turning 25 tomorrow) and I have to choose benefits for work, like retirement and beneficiaries. That sliver of a moment made me realize ruh roh, Im really a big girl now 😂

11. I’m 28 and still don’t feel like an adult. I feel more like a kid with a mortgage and occasionally question who allowed that to happen.

12. 31 … still waiting. I’m definitely an adult, but I look young and have anxiety and that’s given me some imposter syndrome.

13. I’m officially 47 but when I feel like I’m an adult ‘ll let you know. I have so much growing up still to do.

14. 39… not sure!

15. Still waiting for it…and I’ll be 50 next year.

16. I’m 34, and I don’t really feel like an Adult. When I think about it, though, there are a lot of things I’ve had to deal with/manage related to my health issues that most people probably won’t until they’re much older, if at all. But there are also a lot of Adult things that I’ve been kind of locked out of due to said health issues, leading to living in some ways as Not Adult.

    I feel simultaneously 16 and 90.

17. I’m 29 and I have a husband, own a house and have two kids. I almost feel like an adult, but I’m still studying and everytime I’m at uni I feel pretty young. I will be done in January and I suspect that when I land my first grown-up job I’ll feel like an adult, maybe, idk, maybe nobody ever feel completely adult.

18. Working on it still at 36.

19. 46 – when everything my Dad used to scream made all the sense.

20. I’m 28 and I regret ever growing up… 😂

21. I’ve started to feel old but I’ve never felt like an Adult™️.

22. I’m 31 and still don’t always feel like an adult.

23. 23 I cut off all toxic people and I make the rules.

24. I’m 30 and still don’t, but this year has been the closest I’ve felt to feeling like an adult. I think it’s a combination of making progress on healing childhood trauma in therapy, doing very well in my career, and being in a committed, healthy relationship.

25. I just turned 34. I own my own home, I’m married and have a 1 year old. Still don’t feel like an adult most days. Still call my own mom for advice/help. Maybe if my kid has a kid it will sink in?

26. I’m 24 and still feel like a child… the only difference is I actually have money

27. When I started buying good pots and knives. 29.

28. I’m 45. Still waiting.

    My SO and I just bought nerf guns though so I don’t think it’ll be soon!