What age do you think your “frontal lobe fully developed”?

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1. I think most people have a quarter life crisis of identity. Mine was maybe a little early at 21.

2. My old father in law used to claim that at about age 27, a boy turned into a man. Until that point, he was grown but not sure what his role in the world was. It’s much earlier for girls.

3. Physically? I don’t know.

   When I viewed the world differently.
   Age 5

4. Probably sometime between 28 and 30. Not proud of it, but that was the age I got a foothold on my career, quit my neckbeardy ways, started taking my health more seriously, dating, and otherwise being a part of society apart from my computer. I acknowledge that I was a total late-bloomer.

5. I read that the development is finished around the mid-twenties, so I assume that’s when mine was fully developed.

6. 23-25. It’s a very common age for this to happen. I don’t really consider a person a proper adult until about age 25.

   And yes, it was somewhat dramatic. I recall a distinct shift in my self-awareness about that time. My world just kind of got bigger. In my mind that’s basically who I am now at 48. Of course I’ve grown a lot, but my identity is still a 25 year old. If that makes sense.

7. 38 or so. I was a slow bloomer.

8. Dang I don’t know about this one. I was in Iraq and Afghanistan at the age 19-24. Some of the things we saw and went through might’ve developed our frontal lobe a little earlier.

9. I’m 55

   It still hasn’t

10. 43 and still waiting

11. 20

12. Science has shown the brain continues to develop throughout our lives. This is why looking back on ourselves 5-10 years ago, no matter the current age, tends to feel cringey.

    I’d argue that if you think there was an age where you were “fully developed” you probably haven’t matured enough as it is.

13. I started doing cocaine at 12. Sober for years, but I had a wild youth. So, probably never.

14. 107

15. 17

16. 35. No joke.

17. *”What age do you think your “frontal lobe fully developed”?”*

    When you’re too old for Reddit.

    So 25.