At what age did people start treating you like an adult?

[Juxtapose]

For me it's been my 30s. People don't card me nearly as much anymore and I'm not considered one of the youth. In your 20s people still view you as a kid.

[BoopBoopBeep]

17 I guess. I hadn't been carded in a while, supervised a great many people at the amusement park I worked at. Back then AMEX would give you a credit card at 17 with a cosigner, so you had your own credit file started. I used the hell out of that, putting everything on it and paying it off every month to build my score. Had already been accepted into numerous colleges and universities. Rented a room from an elderly couple at 18 until the dorms opened at school. Two years later had an apartment. Wasn't really much in the way of milestones after that I suppose.

[Unit1]

Man, I can't even fathom when it was. It's complicated.

When I was a kid and a teenager, I was a ghost. I truly believed I did not exist and all interactions I have with others are not real and in vain. It's like I felt I don't even exist at all.

Sometime in my early 20s when I started to work I feel like I have begun to actually materialize into the real world. People have therefore treated me as an adult from the get go from there on.

What didn't change was that I was still a ghost (in the social aspect) but with a job now but not ignored or too easily dismissed. When I made money and my money started talking (meaning I started to have purchasing power and do a few things) I started to have a voice.

[just_a_potato]

It depends on where I am. When I'm in certain settings like when I'm working at the hospital, I am just as much of an adult as everyone else. Versus when I'm at like a bar or something, or at school people treat me like I'm still 16 haha. Online can be mixed results depending on the space and conversation at hand.

[SweetJoyGirl]

That is yet to happen.
For instance, I have some relative, and whenever I go to visit them, I have a curfew. I curfew they recently implement, because there was a time I was going to be out late. I hardly even stay out late. 😂

[SweetJoyGirl]

Relatives*

[Juxtapose]

What are they going to do if you don't listen to the curfew?

[SweetJoyGirl]

Lecture me and tell me how wrong it is to stay out so late. 😭

[Dongie]

Don't ever rush adultness I say. It's good to cherish childhood.

[Dongie]

*adulthood

[SweetJoyGirl]

@Dongie 💜💜💜

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I went in to buy Smokes for my cousin and this woman ask to see my ID and I showed her, I laughed age 56 I get carded. Lol

[WindAtMyBack]

I've had it happen even older than that. Granted I didn't have much grey then and had my back turned, but still...

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

@WindAtMyBack Yeah, one time when I was age 30-32 this girl thought I was age 15 we were both in the hospital together.

[handsomelad70]

Lucky laddie !!!

[Dinklex3]

Well. I’m 30 and people still treat me as a child. 🤷‍♀️

[Juxtapose]

Why do you think that is?

[Dinklex3]

For acquaintances, coworkers, my age never comes up so they just assume I’m younger or the same age. With my friends most are older than me just by 1-5 years. My boyfriend and others.. they just like to act like they’re older.

[thegreenyogi]

In my case i started behaving like an adult from the age of 10. I started being treated like one from then.

[Juxtapose]

Meanwhile people still say I am a kid at heart.

[Dongie]

That's juvenile maturity.

[Apple1996]

17 when I had my son so everyone started treating me like a adult then

[Dongie]

Circumstances can make a person behave as an adult. This doesn't make them one.

[Apple1996]

@Dongie very true

[dustybiker2]

When I started acting like one... which was about age 3 when I told everyone who was getting a ride from my mother where to sit in the car according to their designated drop off points. I must have been fun to have around.

[Darkchild25]

People still speak down to me 😂

I think the only time I'm true doesn't adult is when I'm looking to buy something and the sales person has to treat me in a certain way to encourage me to part with my money.

[Account]

On multiple occasions they kinda... still don't.
My height and frame do not help the situation that is for sure.

[DishLady]

Heavy expectations to interact and translate between grownups since age 5, so 🤷🏻‍♀️.

[MicahRaine]

Around 16 because that's when I started trying to actually mature and grow emotionally/mentally

[ArrowheadSW]

I remember noticing it when I was around 19.

[FreyaRed]

With exception of my parents everyone treats my as adult.

[NathanDavis]

in some aspects... six years old

in others, around 28... lol

[OddBeMe]

I assure you, if your gag personality is real…everyone around you is treating you like a mental illness.

[Juxtapose]

I have people from all sorts of different walks of life who get along with me really well. One of my friends I hang out with almost every day is actually a Biden supporter.

[OddBeMe]

Right, we treat all the mentally ill with kindness.

[Juxtapose]

Yeah being a Biden supporter is a pretty severe mental handicap but I do the best I can for him.

[ProbablyClueless]

Eh, maybe 28? People are definitely less dismissive of me, now that I'm 30, though.

[Emmytexrex]

All most all my life because I roll with elders so I think like one beyond my age

[altaboy]

I can't really talk now because I'm grounded.

[Dongie]

About 7 or 8. I was different. I didn't feel like an adult until 31.

[AviatorTom]

Some people still treat me as a child.

[DishLady]

😂 Aww.

[katiesmuff]

Not until I was married

[Crazzyyworld]

they have never treated me like an adult even though I try.