40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For

Being a grown-up is not just about taking care of yourself; it's also about considering how your actions affect the people around you. I like to think of it as juggling heavy dumbbells while riding a broken unicycle on a weak tightrope above a savage fire. Fun, right?

To learn which parts of this 'performance' people find the hardest, Redditor u/Frequent-Pilot5243 recently made a post on the platform, asking other users the following question: "What is an adult problem nobody prepared you for?" Turns out, a lot. From personal finance to relationships, continue scrolling to check out some of the most popular answers.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Handling the decline and death of your parents

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For $5K is a lot to owe, but not a lot to have.

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We managed to get in contact with u/Frequent-Pilot5243 and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us about their viral post.

"It indeed is a good question and people replied with a lot of honesty," the Redditor told Bored Panda.

"As much as I would like to take the credit this isn't an original post. It is a repost; somebody had asked this question a year or year and a half ago."

40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Having to make dinner every. F***ing. Day.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Life is all about maintenance. Your body, your house, your relationships, everything requires constant never ending maintenance.

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Didn't know that other adults have the emotional intelligence of teenagers and its almost impossible to deal with logically

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Indeed, even we covered a thread that virtually asks the same question.

But the answers that this one has received make it a totally new discussion.

"I didn't expect it to blow up like this," u/Frequent-Pilot5243 said.

But some of these issues probably wouldn't even arise if paid more attention to their roots. Approximately 3 in 4 adult or young adult children who experienced a mental health challenge indicated at least some of the challenges occurred before the age of 18, and approximately half of them said that their parents never sought treatment for them, while approximately three quarters said that they wished their parents had done so.

Of these folks, approximately 67% said it was because they would not have suffered so much during their teenage years, approximately 66% said that they would be better equipped to handle their current problems, and approximately 64% said it would have better prepared them for adulthood.

So problems begin early on in our personal journeys. “Transitioning into adulthood is enough of a struggle. No one should have to battle their mental health at the same time,” Debbie Thomas, EdD, APRN, based in Louisville, Kentucky, explained the numbers in a statement.

If only we were better at noticing them...

40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Almost all of your friends wont be life long. No one really talks about how common it is to lose touch with people or grow apart. Most of your life will be spent either making new friends while losing old ones or being alone.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For The more life you’ve lived, the faster time seems to go.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For That turning down the radio, when you are lost in a neighborhood helps you see better.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For How damned tired you are all the time.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For How easy it is to feel stuck in a bad situation (job, relationship, etc) just because the cost and effort of getting out can seem daunting. And sometimes you just have to accept a figurative bowl full of s**t because you can't afford to blow up your life.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For You can stay up as late as you want. But you shouldn't

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For How prevalent depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation is. At this point I think every adult has been through it at some point in their lives.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Lack of purpose.

All your young life you are given purpose of passing exams and learning, then all of a sudden you are thrown into the world and told to find your own meaning.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For The kitchen is always dirty. You’ll clean it at least three times every day.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Figuring out what makes you happy. Everyone keeps trying to get you to do things you're good at, or that makes you money, but never to pursue what you enjoy

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Working full time, but still not being able to afford the basic necessities of life.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Adult life being basically a permanent to-do list that just keeps on getting bigger and bigger

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Without a support system, your mental illnesses alone can render you homeless.

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#19

40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Daughter with behavioral and mental issues. Then she got pregnant at 16. It was a roller coaster ride…very trying and about kicked my [butt].

My husband had esophageal cancer and then 9 years later had 14 brain lesions. Both times his survival rate was low, but he’s still here.

Feel like I’ve been in survival mode for years and years. I’m kinda tired now.

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#20

That I can horrifically f**k my neck up just by sleeping at a funny angle

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#21

Being 60 years old and still having to deal with people that act we’re still in high school. I can’t stand back biting and temper tantrums, and it seems even worse from 50 and 60 year olds. It’s embarrassing and I thought it would end, but apparently drama never ends

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Finding purpose and dealing with childhood trauma.

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#23

This may just be because I’m on the spectrum but networking for jobs. My parents had the same jobs since I was born so I never saw them or anyone else look for one that wasn’t a temporary job for a college student so I didn’t know. I thought hard work would basically show employers I was worth hiring and despite burning myself out I still lost out to people with half my ability because they were more sociable was baffling to me for a long time.

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#24

I'm close to 50. Would have been nice to be better prepared for some of the ways your body starts to change that don't normally get talked about. For instance, your teeth will start to shift from the general aging of your gums

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#25

I’ll say this: as a kid you think adults have it all together. Turns out we are just winging it.

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#26

My dad killed himself 3 days after my 31st birthday. And I still had to wake up and be a mother and a functional human being. Still have to.

There is no preparing for that.

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#27

That people will actively work against their own interests and/or the interests of society.

Growing up, you look at well adjusted adults and think “wow, these people know what’s going on and will help us all get to a better place.” Now? You realize there are a bunch of really stupid folk out there.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Getting burnt out

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#29

How much you have to clean. Like you are always cleaning something. I hate it

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#30

40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For That once you are "stable" your life is f**king groundhog's day. Every day is basically the same. Same person I already married, same house I already have and already decorated, same job every day, same foods over and over. Same damn shows and movies and songs... Boring and sometimes I have a crazy spell because I just can't stand it... dysphoria sucks.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Being asked why I'm single and have no kids like I'm some sort of alien.

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#32

You can clearly see the systems that are in place to prevent you from advancing, but they're effective in preventing you from advancing.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Being an adult feels extremely lonely

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#34

How to fight with a partner. I just shut down because I don't know how to handle it.

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#35

As a kid, I was taught, if you work hard, you can buy a house and move out once you’re 18. I wish I could tell little me that isn’t gonna happen anytime soon haha

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#36

Feeling like I’ve already seen every plot known to man and so movies are very predictable and not as enjoyable as they were when I was younger.

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40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For Not having a lot of free-time or time by myself.

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#38

How to handle existential crisis and the looming thought of my own death and the deaths of those around me.

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#39

Imposter syndrome. And then realizing that likely every expert or professional you’ve ever really trusted also probably has imposter syndrome and knows much less than you think they do. This became very apparent to me during the pandemic when I realized that our governments and our medical professionals don’t have all the answers and we’re all just figuring things out as we go.

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#40

The intricacies of workplace politics.

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#41

Chin hairs. They are an obsession. I tweeze them in a magnifying mirror several times a day. NOBODY told me females would have to deal with this. I feel like the bearded lady some days!

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#42

Having to work 5 days a week. Who the f**k made this the norm. We need a 4 day week

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#43

Not having a pre-defined goal once I was out of college. Growing up my goals were set for me: get through elementary school! then middle school! Then high school, and get into college and get a degree, then get a job, and then...? Vague "advance in your career, buy a house, find a spouse, have a kid or multiple, then retire." At 22 I had no idea how to break that down more granularly. Until then the biggest choice I'd had to make was my college major - even my choice of school was mostly determined by scholarships and location! And then I had to find and choose a job all by myself! And then decide for myself when to leave it and find another! It was overwhelming.

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#44

Insurance, taxes, retirement/pension stuff, and dealing with a passed family member.

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#45

You may have heard from your older relatives that when you get older, itll be your turn to take care of them. You never really understand just how much it takes until you're in that position.

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#46

Planning meals. It’s such a chore to feed yourself every day, planning your meals, budgeting meals, and making sure you like it and don’t get sick of the same meal because it was tasty and easy to make

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Pisco 2 years ago

I have a list of meals divided by types, and I add new dishes when I make them. It makes it easier to look there and plan the week than to think out of nowhere what to eat.

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Josy Bannon 2 years ago

Thats good advice, I'm going to do this too.

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Anna Snorrepot 2 years ago

I wish you were an Asperger like me. I enjoy eating the same few orange and white meals over and over again.

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Mazer 2 years ago

I love to cook so sorry I can’t empathize

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Piet Puk 2 years ago

One word: Meal Prep

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Mistralok 2 years ago

Not a problem for me. I was a Chef, so a quick glance around at what I have is all I need.

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Robyn 2 years ago

See these types of people bug the hell out of me. This person was sharing their struggle, not asking you to tell them that you do not have to worry about this. Please tell me someone else gets what I'm saying???

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#47

How did I never notice that there was dust f**king everywhere? I swear to go I turn around from dusting and there’s more dust. I can’t keep up with our house. We are 2 adults and a dog. Dining room is in constant disarray because that’s where we let the dog go outside. Amazon packages pile up. why am I so f**king tired? We sre 26 and 32.

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#48

That no one gives a s**t how smart you are.

As a kid, everyone makes it sound like you're set for life if you're smart. No. You're set for life if you have a good work ethic, know how to stay motivated, and are fairly smart. That's when you make s**t happen.

Being too smart too early can actually impede you. I didn't figure this out completely until I was almost 30. And now, at 34, I'm just starting to really hit my stride.

My whole childhood, through highschool and even most of college, I could do no studying and still get As and Bs. And everyone told me how I was going to be so successful and it was so great that I was so smart. But I never had to work hard so I never learned to.

And guess what? Companies looking to hire you DO NOT GAF if you're smart. They care that you can do the job and do the job well and have the potential to grow.

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#49

You are held to account for bad behaviour for which you are negligent even if you had no intention to cause harm. As a lawyer, I see this all the time. People don't think they're responsible for mistakes. You are.

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#50

Your first bad medical news.

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#51

One adult problem nobody prepared me for is how expensive everything is. I always thought that as an adult I would be able to afford the things I wanted, but it turns out that's not always the case! I've had to learn how to budget and save up for the things I want, and it's been a difficult process.

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#52

My parents worked full time jobs and our house was still clean, our laundry was clean, we had a full meal on the table every night. My mom did all that. My dad did all the stereotypical man role stuff like fixing and laboring but my mom kept that house running while she worked full time.

We have kids and full time jobs and a big house and I cannot keep up. I get a meal on the table every night because the children have to eat but the rest gets so out of hand SO fast. Today I said to my kids “we need to get this house cleaned up this evening when we get home,” and one said “we just did that yesterday.” Yeah dude, you’ve been busy living your best 7 year old life.

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#53

Getting sick is too expensive.

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#54

Having to care for yourself when you're sick.

I was 19, roommate was away for the weekend, and I had the most awful stomach virus. Nobody around to help.

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#55

Even when you live alone, and grocery shop on a regular basis, there will never be anything you feel like eating.

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#56

Weight gain.

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#57

Birthdays will stop being fun and are gonna be a constant reminder that some day you'll get very old and then die...

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I was unprepared for how much taxes reduce your retirment. We spend roughly $1000.00/ monthly between taxes and insurance, just to own stuff we already paid for. You will NEVER live anywhere free. Our system is designed against it...

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#59

Being judged for what I do with my hard earned adult money. Also the feeling of walking in a room and being seen as THE adult. My mind isn’t prepared to be the one w the answers.

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#60

I was not prepared to have this much hair in places I do not wish to have hair.

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#61

Being able to do so many things because I'm an adult but too tired to do any of them.

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That you spend most of your waking hours on activities you'd rather not be doing (work, chores, commuting, etc.)

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#63

Why the f**k does my back hurt all the f**king time and why does my nose and ears have hair ?

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#64

Why do so many things require different kinds of soap?

Shampoo = hair soap

Body wash = body soap

Toothpaste = tooth soap

Laundry detergent = clothes soap

Dishwasher = special soap

Washing dishes by hand = another special soap

Mopping = floor soap

Carpet cleaner = carpet soap

Washing my car = car soap

I AM ALWAYS BUYING SOAP.

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#65

Basic car maintenance.

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#66

Should I fill the gas up now on my way home, or tomorrow in my way in?

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S***ty mental health and constant existential crisis

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#68

Nobody loving me

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#69

Being without your Parents

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#70

Aging parents

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#71

Losing/Making friends after you’ve outgrown the bar scene.

Also, the amount of friends you lose after getting married was a shocker, too. They just stop inviting you out or even over to their houses.

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#72

Your bills are wrong. Someone counted wrong or forgot to file a form and now you must pay hundreds of euro extra for electricity unless you get on the phone and argue with a stranger before 5pm today.

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#73

Cheese is so expensive

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#74

Rent

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#75

The rising cost of living

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#76

That your parents, if they live long enough will look to you to be the adult in the room.

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#77

Hemorrhoids

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#78

Depression as an adult, at least as a kid you get healthy amounts of attention and love, and as a teenager you get to have a group of people to spend time and look away.

Being on your own in that abyss really is something I could have never envisioned

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#79

Paying sales tax when you buy a vehicle and then subsequently having to pay property tax on the same vehicle each year.

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#80

Where did all my friends go?

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#81

I thought for a long time that 65 was a magic age--you could stop working, and get a LOT of money, that you had never saved. Like the government just gave it to you. Of course Social Security is like that, except for the "LOT" part.

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#82

Having to figure out what to eat and what to feed yourself, 3 times a day??

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Pisco 2 years ago

Something needs to change in our society or I dont see how we can continue. Most young people I know is poor and has terrible emntal health. How long can we keep this up?

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Mahogany Eclipse 2 years ago

I believe something is gonna change whether people want it to or not.

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Phyzzi 2 years ago

Things are always changing and things are always a mixed bag. We may be at a turning point in some places but it's not new for people to be at a turning point.

1point

Julianne Hannes 2 years ago

Guillotine the billionares

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angry_waffle 2 years ago (edited)

*hint* not very

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Anna Snorrepot 2 years ago

I LOVE the freedom that comes with ageing. Choosing which social rules I find important, ignoring the rest.

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Scratch when you itch, fart when you want ...;)

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

I don't think you can be fully prepared for adulthood. Parents should (try) to educate their children on how to handle "life" in general. What and how to behave: in general, conflict, etc. Give them tools.

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Ozacoter 2 years ago

I feel that the problem is that parents in the last decades hid too many of their problems to their kids so they grew up thinking that life was going to be fair and easy. You shouldnt burden your kids all the time of course but its not ok to make them believe that life is always good.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Teach them to do basics, like cook/clean. Competence at that, managing one's finances, and managing one's expectations...

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Helen Haley 2 years ago

But what are all the kids with awful parents/no parents going to learn? There are an awful lot of them. Engaged parents with the skills and faculty to pass along conflict resolution and emotions are in serious short supply. Because no one ever taught the parents that. And that is why we have a shedload of adults who still have the thought patterns of teenagers.

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Péter Rózsahegyi 2 years ago (edited)

When you became 50 but it feels you were 30 just 2 months ago.

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Elliot Fowler 2 years ago

How much is sucks not being able to punch another adult. Some people really deserve to be punched but assult is illegal.

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Marija Gavrilova 2 years ago

Man this was depressing.

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Who Panda 420 2 years ago

Am I the only one that has a kid could never imagine themselves as adults? Couldn't imagine the kids or the car or the house payment? Paying taxes and the 9-5? I'm very much an adult and still can't see it.

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marianne eliza 2 years ago

All it took was 2 elections and 1 bad term for me to discover that roughly half the people in this country are nuts.

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Natalie Kudryashova 2 years ago

This kind of post needs to come with a warning lol. Reading these all together is enough to trigger depression if you’re that way inclined. Yes, adulthood can be hard and a lot of work, but it can also be extremely rewarding and being massive joy. Reading this post makes it super easy to forget that

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Tami 2 years ago

You are absolutely right Natalie!! Being an adult, even with an ordinary mundane life, gives you opportunities to discover great things!

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Mazer 2 years ago

So many people don’t set their kids up for success and that’s a shame

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Tami 2 years ago

And many kids don't listen to their parents when they try to explain what to do to be successful.

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Susie Elle 2 years ago

A general feeling of losing control over your own life because of all the things you HAVE to do, are EXPECTED to do or MUST do to maintain everything is what gets people the most. It's like your freedom is taken away from you. I'm probably speaking from privilige but I feel that lots of people could take back more control over their life than they think they can. I mean, you can't just get up and dump your kids and husband, but you CAN reevaluate just how much of a disaster will unfold if you DON'T immediately do this or that.

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

I love that this ended up being a board where many if us could share. I've only found this site a month ago but I've been very happy here. Nobody selling things, very few political discussions and strife between people. Ivd found such amazing strangers here! And this post was just a place where we could all share our same experiences. I know I probably talked lots but I felt safe! Less judgey people here. I love it!

1point

Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago

I never thought I'd wind up with a chronic illness that forced out of a job I spent 9 years and a lot of money preparing for. Also a wife who worked through two pregnancies full term to help me do it. Yet, here I am. The hardest thing anyone will have to accept about being an adult is that life wasn't, isn't and never will be fair.

1point

Grayson Wrigley 2 years ago

Here's on for me: Realizing that college students look like babies to me. I'm only 33 but it makes me feel like something recently uncovered in a tomb in Egypt.

1point

Péter Rózsahegyi 2 years ago

Oh, and your parents thought that you were an a*hole in your teens. Then you think your teens are real a*holes. And they will think the same about your grandchild.

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Anna Snorrepot 2 years ago

well, to be fair….. :D

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Awsomemom52 2 years ago

From a certain age you are much more relaxed than before... but at the same time some things annoy you all the more. I'm in my early 50s and really couldn't care less what others think of me. On the other hand... there has been constant construction going on somewhere in my neighborhood for almost 5 years now and the heavy construction vehicles are increasingly ruining our paved street ... which really annoys me.

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Dora Ferrier 2 years ago

No one ever tells you when you're a kid how expensive rugs are. Seriously, why do they cost so much?

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Ivanka van der Reest 2 years ago

I'm missing one for the ladies. Some of us have been and others haven't been prepared for getting periods. I was. Thought it was a good thing. I knew I was to expect bleeding monthly. Didn't know I was to expect feeling like s**t so many days in advance that for half a month I'd feel happy and on top of the world and the other half crying all the time and craving chocolate and feeling all together miserable. Every month again. Year in year out. Now I look forward to see this misery end, but when I look at ladies who are older than me I wonder if that would make me happy because they all (at least in my surroundings) become nagging sour pusses with marital problems so now I'm like: is that what I'm looking forward too?

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Ashley Deane 2 years ago

It's honestly scary how relatable most of these are. I mean it's good to know I'm not alone but it's more depressing in a way. We need to do better. We need to work on humanity. Work on SOCIETY.

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Tami 2 years ago

How would kids react if their parents complained about all these things? 😄😄😄

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Having been raised to be ready for the apocalypse, and on a farm (mostly), I can say that my childhood prepared me to be an adult by age 10, and I'd have liked to be a kid a bit more, but ... A pandemic hits, and I was basically, "OK, got this," and on life went/goes. Would've been nice to be a "kid" more, but that wasn't our option.

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Peter Weir 2 years ago

All the comments above is because you are all snowflakes and lazy, typical millennial excuses for your mental health.....your generation is useless and always complain about how things are so hard, and its hard to be an adult....just think how many generations before you survived with far less than you have.....bad internet connection and you all cry and seek a social worker.....f me......part of life..suck it up snowflakes

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Dávid Csonka 2 years ago

Most of these come from bad parenting and being an atheist. Both suck and make your life miserable. You can change it tho...

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Dan St John 2 years ago

When we started giving out participation trophy's to kids for just showing up. Now it seems like everyone thinks they deserve everything everyone else has and they lose their minds when they can't have it. Just because your parents are well off, doesn't mean you will be.

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Pisco 2 years ago

Something needs to change in our society or I dont see how we can continue. Most young people I know is poor and has terrible emntal health. How long can we keep this up?

20points

Mahogany Eclipse 2 years ago

I believe something is gonna change whether people want it to or not.

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Phyzzi 2 years ago

Things are always changing and things are always a mixed bag. We may be at a turning point in some places but it's not new for people to be at a turning point.

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Julianne Hannes 2 years ago

Guillotine the billionares

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angry_waffle 2 years ago (edited)

*hint* not very

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Anna Snorrepot 2 years ago

I LOVE the freedom that comes with ageing. Choosing which social rules I find important, ignoring the rest.

13points

Caro Caro 2 years ago

Scratch when you itch, fart when you want ...;)

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

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Ozacoter 2 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Teach them to do basics, like cook/clean. Competence at that, managing one's finances, and managing one's expectations...

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Helen Haley 2 years ago

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Péter Rózsahegyi 2 years ago (edited)

When you became 50 but it feels you were 30 just 2 months ago.

7points

Elliot Fowler 2 years ago

How much is sucks not being able to punch another adult. Some people really deserve to be punched but assult is illegal.

5points

Marija Gavrilova 2 years ago

Man this was depressing.

3points

Who Panda 420 2 years ago

3points

marianne eliza 2 years ago

All it took was 2 elections and 1 bad term for me to discover that roughly half the people in this country are nuts.

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Natalie Kudryashova 2 years ago

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Tami 2 years ago

You are absolutely right Natalie!! Being an adult, even with an ordinary mundane life, gives you opportunities to discover great things!

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Mazer 2 years ago

So many people don’t set their kids up for success and that’s a shame

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Tami 2 years ago

And many kids don't listen to their parents when they try to explain what to do to be successful.

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Susie Elle 2 years ago

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

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Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago

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Grayson Wrigley 2 years ago

Here's on for me: Realizing that college students look like babies to me. I'm only 33 but it makes me feel like something recently uncovered in a tomb in Egypt.

1point

Péter Rózsahegyi 2 years ago

Oh, and your parents thought that you were an a*hole in your teens. Then you think your teens are real a*holes. And they will think the same about your grandchild.

1point

Anna Snorrepot 2 years ago

well, to be fair….. :D

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Awsomemom52 2 years ago

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Dora Ferrier 2 years ago

No one ever tells you when you're a kid how expensive rugs are. Seriously, why do they cost so much?

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Ivanka van der Reest 2 years ago

0points

Ashley Deane 2 years ago

It's honestly scary how relatable most of these are. I mean it's good to know I'm not alone but it's more depressing in a way. We need to do better. We need to work on humanity. Work on SOCIETY.

0points

Tami 2 years ago

How would kids react if their parents complained about all these things? 😄😄😄

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

0points

Peter Weir 2 years ago

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Dávid Csonka 2 years ago

Most of these come from bad parenting and being an atheist. Both suck and make your life miserable. You can change it tho...

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Dan St John 2 years ago

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