The older we get, the more life experience we pick up along the way. We learn new things, meet different people, travel, make mistakes, and hopefully take something valuable from them. With every new lesson, we should, in theory, become a little wiser and more responsible. In reality, though, someone’s age doesn’t always say much about their maturity.
One Redditor recently asked users to share the signs that scream someone is an adult who still hasn’t grown up, and they had plenty of examples. We’ve rounded up some of their best responses below. Scroll down to read them and see how many you recognize.
#42
Still using the word "adulting" past the age of thirty.
You are not adulting. You *are* an adult. Using words that makes you sound like two eight year olds in a trench coat isn't going to make forever young.
You are not adulting. You *are* an adult. Using words that makes you sound like two eight year olds in a trench coat isn't going to make forever young.
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8points
#43
Just spent £600 on an original beyblade collection. Couldn’t be happier. I’m 32.
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7points
#44
When they don't actually accept accountability for their actions, even if they apologize for it.
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7points
#45
I’m probably in the minority here, but people who make a production of their birthday. If you have a birthday week or have a list of things you want, you are a child.
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7points
#47
I’m a dentist. We once had a woman call to make a new patient appointment for her son. Her son was 43 years old.
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7points
#48
Not being able to wake up at an appropriate hour and get to places on time. Literally the most basic of responsibilities.
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6points
#49
This is one that’s been really frustrating the hell out of me lately but like.
Lack of cleanliness! But the specific kind of ‘I see when thing need cleaned. My eyes work. But instead of having the wherewithal to say ‘oh. This needs cleaned. I’m right here and capable of cleaning said thing. Therefore, I will clean said thing’., they just leave it until either somebody else specifically tells them to clean it, or somebody else does it instead.
Lack of cleanliness! But the specific kind of ‘I see when thing need cleaned. My eyes work. But instead of having the wherewithal to say ‘oh. This needs cleaned. I’m right here and capable of cleaning said thing. Therefore, I will clean said thing’., they just leave it until either somebody else specifically tells them to clean it, or somebody else does it instead.
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5points
#52
People who are absolutely closed to trying new foods, who refuse to eat vegetables, who make a huge fuss about food others have made for them... Or worst, who make it seem like foods they don't like are disgusting. .
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3points
#54
The "adult" of the 19th and 20th centuries is a historical relic.
That older model of the "independent, self-supporting, career-driven adult" was a product of a specific, younger phase of capital accumulation. Expecting modern people to live up to that standard today when the law of value has collapsed, the state is running on trillion-dollar credit cards and stable wage-labor is being phased out is pure ideological delusion.
The people on Reddit are blaming themselves and each other for "failing to grow up," when they should be pointing their fingers at the state-managed zombie system that has robbed them of their time, their labor's value and their future.
That older model of the "independent, self-supporting, career-driven adult" was a product of a specific, younger phase of capital accumulation. Expecting modern people to live up to that standard today when the law of value has collapsed, the state is running on trillion-dollar credit cards and stable wage-labor is being phased out is pure ideological delusion.
The people on Reddit are blaming themselves and each other for "failing to grow up," when they should be pointing their fingers at the state-managed zombie system that has robbed them of their time, their labor's value and their future.
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-1point
#55
Having a roommate.
Hear me out - first of all, I disagree with this idea that having a roommate means you haven't grown up. However, I am in the process of buying my first home and going to live alone for the first time in my life. The amount of times I have heard "you're finally becoming an adult" when I tell people I'm getting my own place has surprised me. I didn't realize people thought that living alone was part of adulthood. Did no one watch Golden Girls?
Hear me out - first of all, I disagree with this idea that having a roommate means you haven't grown up. However, I am in the process of buying my first home and going to live alone for the first time in my life. The amount of times I have heard "you're finally becoming an adult" when I tell people I'm getting my own place has surprised me. I didn't realize people thought that living alone was part of adulthood. Did no one watch Golden Girls?
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-1point
#56
An adult who had parents who actively sabotaged their development.
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-7points
