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I'm nearly 23 and have never understood why how they're children. If I was to label 18-25 year old's:
18 years old=Not at all a child anymore, but not an adult just yet.
19 years old=An adult teenager with it being closer to being an adult than a child.
20 years old=A borderline young adult (you can't classify 20 year old's as teenagers anymore as well).
21-24 years old=A young adult.
25 years old=A borderline full adult.
>25 years old=A full adult.
I don't label anyone outside of my Mother as my Mother, my Brother as my Brother, my Husband as my Husband, etc. in regards to friends and family.
Anyone else is not my concern and is not labeled as anything beyond human.
all depends on frame of reference, and we make judgements by comparisons
yep,,i call em kids...
when I cant tell the difference between a 19 yr old and a 25 yr old,,,yep , they are kids
no different, than a 19 or 25 yr old would call a 40, or 50 yr old person as "old"
calling someone a "kid" isn't so derogatory- its actually a compliment,,,there's a hint of jealousy in that remark- we wished we were that age again
I find that it's best to not compare ages. A 90 year old could say that a 40-50 year old is a kid in this situation (when it's an older adult). Most 20 year old's for example are generally fully grown physically (I have yet to see anybody grow at 20 besides me who has grown past 21 with it being an exceptionally rare case around here at least, so I don't know where the 'every guy can grow until 21' idea has come from) with the mental growth being generally insignificant between 20 and 26 (the Cerebral Cortex often gets growth, but it's insignificant at this age). So I think that there should be still lines drawn on which age is which.
i try not to label people in general. attitude and character are more important to me that physical age. i have known people that were quite young yet had very old souls, and vice versa.
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I'm nearly 23 and have never understood why how they're children. If I was to label 18-25 year old's:
18 years old=Not at all a child anymore, but not an adult just yet.
19 years old=An adult teenager with it being closer to being an adult than a child.
20 years old=A borderline young adult (you can't classify 20 year old's as teenagers anymore as well).
21-24 years old=A young adult.
25 years old=A borderline full adult.
>25 years old=A full adult.
but I'm not sure your post even belongs on a Psych Forum since you are addressing merely chronological ages and the category you perceive them to belong to. those lables really mean very little, since--to get back to the psych viewpoint--different individuals are going to have varying emotional maturity levels despite their ages. That is to say, a 19 y.o. may be way more mature and level-headed and "adult like" than his 25 y.o. neighbor.
having said that, and on a more interesting tangent of this discussion, I have always found it fascinating how much more mature girls are than boys up to the, say, mid-20 y.o. ages. A 17 y.o. girl is usually light-years ahead of her male counterpart at that age insofar as maturity and readiness for adulthood and "the real world" (and even parenting) are concerned. why is this? THAT is an interesting topic!
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