He’s 21 lmao. Does everyone over 30 confuse college kids as minors? I’m 20 and people older than me usually think I’m a high schooler, but people my age can tell I’m not
You know how, back when you were in high school, you’d occasionally see middle schoolers and think “We weren’t that small, were we?”
That basically keeps going your whole life, but the categories get more stretched out the older you get. 30 and 40 year olds start complaining, “Oooh, I’m so old, everything hurts!” and it’s like, dude, you’re barely half way there.
Yes I temper everything going on with my early 30s self with ‘the future is yes, but worse!’. Though I do seriously intend on turning some of my fitness around this decade, so I might at least be fitter and more comfortable than my late 20s, illness/etc permitting. Generally, 30s is when the olds starts being a legitimate topic… but only that, and 40s is when you start-to-get old but arguably aren’t…reallyyy.
Yeah I guess? I feel like we’re still in the “a lot happening in a short span” phase of development at 19-21 though. But idk I’m not great at age assessments.
Enough happens between 18 and 22, that one can probably guess a difference, but not for 19 and 21. And even an 18 year old can appear 20s and a 22 year old can appear like a minor, so its all one big thing under umbrella of ‘brain not fully developed but we let them drive, have sex with whoever, and kill people’.
And when you’re getting older and older, ‘kid’ moves from 14, to 16, to 18… but also to 20, 22, and eventually all of 20s, with 30s becoming ‘still young’. If you’re a legal adult that looks like you might not be, like it or not, but large swaths will still regard you as at least kind of a kid. Different political types will decide what to do with that, from ‘you’re just a kid, nothing you say matters’ to ‘you’re the young (adults) that will be the future so maybe your activism really matters’.
I’m 34 and “kid” moving to 20 never really happened for me but I think thats because I’m autistic and developmentally delayed. For me a “kid” is 18 and younger. But I get all of what you’re saying.
He’s 21 lmao. Does everyone over 30 confuse college kids as minors? I’m 20 and people older than me usually think I’m a high schooler, but people my age can tell I’m not
You know how, back when you were in high school, you’d occasionally see middle schoolers and think “We weren’t that small, were we?”
That basically keeps going your whole life, but the categories get more stretched out the older you get. 30 and 40 year olds start complaining, “Oooh, I’m so old, everything hurts!” and it’s like, dude, you’re barely half way there.
Yes I temper everything going on with my early 30s self with ‘the future is yes, but worse!’. Though I do seriously intend on turning some of my fitness around this decade, so I might at least be fitter and more comfortable than my late 20s, illness/etc permitting. Generally, 30s is when the olds starts being a legitimate topic… but only that, and 40s is when you start-to-get old but arguably aren’t…reallyyy.
Tbf he does have a particularly youthful face. I’m a bit surprised he’s that old, I would have guessed like 19. So not a minor but not over 20 either.
I feel like there isn’t a huge difference between how a 19 and 21 yo look, it’s only 2 years
Yeah I guess? I feel like we’re still in the “a lot happening in a short span” phase of development at 19-21 though. But idk I’m not great at age assessments.
Enough happens between 18 and 22, that one can probably guess a difference, but not for 19 and 21. And even an 18 year old can appear 20s and a 22 year old can appear like a minor, so its all one big thing under umbrella of ‘brain not fully developed but we let them drive, have sex with whoever, and kill people’.
And when you’re getting older and older, ‘kid’ moves from 14, to 16, to 18… but also to 20, 22, and eventually all of 20s, with 30s becoming ‘still young’. If you’re a legal adult that looks like you might not be, like it or not, but large swaths will still regard you as at least kind of a kid. Different political types will decide what to do with that, from ‘you’re just a kid, nothing you say matters’ to ‘you’re the young (adults) that will be the future so maybe your activism really matters’.
I’m 34 and “kid” moving to 20 never really happened for me but I think thats because I’m autistic and developmentally delayed. For me a “kid” is 18 and younger. But I get all of what you’re saying.
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