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For me it's when I was 17 and I was waiting at a bus stop, and when a lady came up to ask me a question she addressed me as "Sir." I'm sure we all remember that moment when, in an instant, we mentally evolved from an adolescent into a responsible adult. Share it with us pls k thx!
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Aug 12, 2019 21:24
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These next few months seem really promising
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Aug 12, 2019 21:26
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I never did truly. However, the closest was definitely losing my virginity. I waited until I was ready. (18)
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Aug 12, 2019 21:37
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A similar "sir" moment from an older woman while working at the grocery store, but followed by "where do you keep your buns?" Managing to direct her to the correct aisle without a visible reaction, I knew then that I had truly Become A Man.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:38
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the moment i realized i could buy an entire bag of halloween candy for myself, but that i waited until after halloween to get it on sale.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:42
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The first time I had to go to Home Depot more than once in the same month.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:43
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when i was in Vegas for my first business convention and banged some Australian chick I met at the casino bar. It was good.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:44
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Spins posted:I never did truly. Pic: 
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Aug 12, 2019 21:46
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A Salty Affair posted:The first time I had to go to Home Depot more than once in the same month. Same except day. Followed closely by my first time getting absolutely destroyed come tax time.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:49
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Realizing I was the only one in my group of college friends that could cook a meal from scratch and clean a bathroom.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:49
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Being a small child and "lending" money to my gambling addicted parents. The first of many instances of "borrowing". Watching your parents dump out your piggybank to sift through the quarters and dimes and nickels so they can pay the bills makes you grow up and learn about the world quick.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:53
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when i said i'm getting too old for this poo poo, and being emotionally burnt to a husk feeling nothing around daily life and phased by nothing, and just carrying out the standard the daily routine yet again and again because it's convenient and eh its working i suppose
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Aug 12, 2019 21:54
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I don't remember when it was, but what happened was I realized two of the people in my life that I'd classified as "adults" were fighting over a misunderstanding, and they were both too proud and irritated to admit that the other one wasn't just being a dick for no reason. like, I could see it happen, I could read their emotional processes, I knew exactly what was happening, and could see how little it mattered, and I had to step in and mediate for people more than twice my age it was something I'd grown out of. I'd learned to recognize the behavior in myself and rise above it, and I thought doing so was just a part of growing up. I thought that, in the course of becoming an adult, you just gain some wisdom and insight into human behavior and you naturally begin to conduct yourself more responsibly. but here were two genuine grown-ups, home owners, tax-payers, people who have raised children, who just... didn't. and I realized it wasn't exceptional. it dawned on me all at once, all the hints and clues from throughout my childhood and adolescence fell into place: the concept of an "adult", as I understood it, did not exist. it was not something I was working toward, I had already cleared the bar. there was no adult world. people around me are going to be like this until I die. I spent a lot of that evening staring at my bedroom ceiling
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Aug 12, 2019 22:02
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Yeah, at the risk of crossing over with the boomer and estranged parents topics, realizing that the adults around you don't actually know any better than you do is a pretty eye-opening moment.
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Aug 12, 2019 22:21
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having to lie to the cops who answered the door to my parents house why my parents weren't in when i was 14
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Aug 12, 2019 22:22
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Some woman got her dumb rear end kid to behave by pointing to me and saying “you better be good. That mans a policeman”
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Aug 12, 2019 22:27
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When I decided that the hangover the next day wasn't worth the fun of getting trashed that night.
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Aug 12, 2019 22:29
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First time I squatted down to pick something up and my knees hurt enough when I got back up that I made an audible grunt.
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Aug 12, 2019 22:33
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When I was at a Family Dollar when I was 20 or 21 and I genuinely got excited about a sale on dish soap.
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Aug 12, 2019 22:35
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The first time I was really sick on my own. Had to get my rear end up and walk to the subway station then get groceries and meds and get home all while wishing I was dead (and sick, the wishing I was dead was basically all the time back then).
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Aug 12, 2019 22:38
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Realizing that realizing that you are an adult != being an adult
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Aug 12, 2019 22:40
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when i was 15 holding my now wifes leg up as she delivered my first child
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Aug 12, 2019 22:40
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honda whisperer posted:When I decided that the hangover the next day wasn't worth the fun of getting trashed that night. tempted to probate you for this cowardice
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Aug 12, 2019 22:40
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When I was twenty and my uncle who I hung around with most days hung himself two days after his daughter was born and the loving enormity of the whole thing just melted my brain for way too long.
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Aug 12, 2019 22:46
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When I came around on the Cardigans' "Lovefool."
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Aug 12, 2019 22:50
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Aug 12, 2019 22:58
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Cubone posted:it dawned on me all at once, all the hints and clues from throughout my childhood and adolescence fell into place: the concept of an "adult", as I understood it, did not exist. it was not something I was working toward, I had already cleared the bar. there was no adult world. people around me are going to be like this until I die. I spent a lot of that evening staring at my bedroom ceiling Also, helping with taking care of my grandmother after she started to get seriously senile for like 12 months straight, six days a week, while also working full time and coming home into an empty flat every night
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Aug 12, 2019 23:02
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Jose posted:tempted to probate you for this cowardice Calling me a coward for not getting trashed and then posting about your own temptation and restraint. Coward.
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Aug 12, 2019 23:02
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Driving my Dad and his brothers home from the hospital where their mother died. But, I think the one that has actually stuck is realising I'm comfortable managing people who appear to be adults themselves.
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Aug 12, 2019 23:05
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I recently spent half an hour talking with a complete stranger about zoning regulations.
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Aug 12, 2019 23:17
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I had bought a bus ticket for as far as my money would take me and was sitting on the roof of a house in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I had just worked out a deal with these 5 college dudes that lived there to clean their house in exchange for letting me stay there. I was smoking a cigarette and listening to No Doubt and trying to think of how I could get some food and where I might find a job. I was 16.
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Aug 13, 2019 16:29
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I had a job interview a few months after graduating college and realized that the person interviewing, despite being the manager of the position, had no idea what the job actually did. I realized that most people were the same, and that my childish idea of there being some all-knowing "authority" figure dictated by how much money you made or your job title was complete bullshit. I definitely changed for the better at that point and kind of mellowed out in general.
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Aug 13, 2019 16:51
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When I sold my first tank of propane at age 14.
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Aug 13, 2019 17:07
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Tokelau All Star posted:I recently spent half an hour talking with a complete stranger about zoning regulations. Lol. I was at a Continuing Legal Education presentation a few months ago, and when I heard the next speaker was going to discuss zoning laws, I found myself getting genuinely excited for it. Followed swiftly by the thought of "Holy poo poo. I'm a 28 year-old man looking forward to a presentation on zoning. gently caress."
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Aug 13, 2019 17:08
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It was when I was working as teacher's assistant in a school. Kids really treat everyone who's not a kid as "an adult". They do sort of notice if you're not confidently adult as in you know what you're doing, in which case they'll look for a more comfortably self-assured adult. So that's the first time I felt like an adult I think, but I also didn't quite match up.
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Aug 13, 2019 17:09
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Captain Hygiene posted:A similar "sir" moment from an older woman while working at the grocery store, but followed by "where do you keep your buns?" I read that as “visible erection” at first. Still works.
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Aug 13, 2019 17:11
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Captain Hygiene posted:A similar "sir" moment from an older woman while working at the grocery store, but followed by "where do you keep your buns?" You're not an adult unless you respond by sticking out your rear end and saying "Right here, baby."
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Aug 13, 2019 17:12
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I got my first job pretty young bagging at a grocery store at 14 years old. I felt my soul die that day. I then stayed at that store for another 10 years basically working in every department. I then got a job in field before finishing college (if you are doing the math, I switched majors and not a lot carried over). If you more mean adult as in paying attention to Politics beyond the surface level: November 8, 2016.
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Aug 13, 2019 17:18
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Still waiting on that moment, OP. Maybe it will be this post? Fingers crossed!!! edit: dawww oh well it was worth a shot 
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Aug 13, 2019 17:23
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before i ever started school i was watching some 80s jetson movie. the plot of the movie went something like judy was going out and being a groupie for this rear end in a top hat rockstar guy, and get this, hes the good guy. he plays this lame hair metal song 'rock, rock, rocking 'round the galaxy' which, as an aside, literally gave me a headache from hearing it like alot of hair metal did back then. that poo poo song is basically the entire stage of conflict for the show. it plays up this sleazy rockstar guy with all the good guy plotting, and has the antagonist drawn as a witch that contorts in pain at the sound of that lovely song. ofcourse i identified with the witch, who was crying and screaming in the climax as the rock rock rockin round the galaxy looped louder and louder. i remember tearing up and getting narrative framing 'pilled, which led me to constantly argue for perceived bad things. this eventually led to me writing an essay on why maybe aids is good in fifth grade and earning me a trip to the school counselor.
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