What was the biggest change for you from boyhood to manhood (aside from physical)?

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1. Money.

2. Bills

3. My parents dumping their responsibilities for my siblings onto me

4. Suddently love, care and respect had to be earned rather than received

5. The truth that the world owes me nothing and everything I want has to be worked towards.

6. expectations of financial success

7. As a kid, i honestly believed that the majority of people were honest, kind and just plain good at heart.

   Ha! Holy shit was i wrong on that!

8. I didn’t realize how problematic my behavior was due to anxiety of living with my parents. I chilled out big time. Chips on my shoulder dropped off. I had been a depressed introvert and turned into an energetic extrovert.

9. As a guy nobody is coming to save you. You are expected to “man up”

10. Realizing that the only one who can change your life is you

11. When I realized my mother was waiting for me to make my own decision about when curfew is.

12. Got much more depressed, introverted and misanthropic.

13. Mentality.