[ SECRET POST #2176 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2176 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Tongue in cheek, plus an acknowledgement of two things:

1. Often, the criteria we have for "adult" in our heads is weird and sideways. I know lots of adults, for instance, whose housekeeping leaves something to be desired and who greeted online banking with cries of OH THANK GOD, NOW I MIGHT ACTUALLY GET BILLS PAID ON TIME. On the flipside, I kept my house IMMACULATE when I was an idiot nineteen year old who didn't even know how to open a bank account by myself.


2. That our childhood perceptions lied to us, and we will never be totally in control and secure and so on. "Adult" in that context means something closer to how a lot of us saw our parents as kids*, weird magicians who controlled the world and always knew what was going on and how to do and fix things.


This has been your total overanalysis comment. >.>


*excepting, of course, those who for one reason or another didn't.

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your second point is really the core of it, I think-- we have ideas about a solid wall running between "childhood" and "adulthood", like one day you cross over and you're suddenly Mr Responsibility with a car and a mortgage, two kids who need to be dropped off at school, a pile of paper to push around your desk... and you'll be able to deal with all that stuff just fine because you're an adult now! The reality is that it's all BS based on what we imagined our parents doing and what we saw on TV/read in books as children.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, my #2 is definitely the major for me. I mean, it's kind of reassuring to remind myself that in reality, all the adults I knew growing up were probably just as panicked and overwhelmed from time to time (or all the time) as I am, but it's still hard to accept emotionally.

So there are a lot of jokes about needing to act like a responsible adult, or failing at being a responsible adult, or whatever. When actually, I spent my working days caring for small children, running someone else's house, and my non-working days paying my bills and looking after my health and relatives health and actually holy shit, I am a) an adult who has b) responsibilities I mostly live up to.

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention, every skill is a learned thing. While how much a person was exposed to it has some correlations to how long that person existed, it's not all cut clean.

Hell, I was more house-responsible at 8 than I am now. Fuck yeah living on my own and no family to breathe down my back if I don't clean.