Poll: When do you consider someone no longer a teen?
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Daystar Clarion said:
I was called a teenager by everyone older than myself until I hit 20. Fair is fair.
As my uncle once said: "You may be an adult within the law but you're still just a kid until you hit 20. Then you're some guy living at his parents so milk it for what's worth!"
As a guy in his thirties, I'd rather work with someone in their mid twenties than any 18-20 year old. Although I've seen a fair few people in their mid, even late, twenties act like fucking children over completely insignificant things. While it might not be entirely to blame, a lot of them didn't get out of college and into a real job until they were in their mid twenties.DanielBrown said:
I voted for legal adulthood. Of course, technically a person is still a teen as long as their age doesn't begin with a 2. But the the word teenager seems to also imply the diminished personal responsability (and rights) that society grants children and adolescents. So, when a human reaches the legal adulthood, in my opinion he has also full personal responsability and therefore does no longer count as a teenager.
I feel like the underlying question here is when you are to be considered an actual adult (not just "legally an adult"), not some semantic nonsense about the suffix "-teen".
The answer is when you start working and paying for your living expenses, i.e. taking responsibility for yourself. Some people do this with 18.
Some people go to college on a student loan and pass their spare time partying. These people are still not adults, despite being "legal adults".
Afaik, in Germany there is a regulation that when you commit a crime as a "young adult" (teenager), there is an evaluation if you should be judged as an adult or as a minor.
The answer is when you start working and paying for your living expenses, i.e. taking responsibility for yourself. Some people do this with 18.
Some people go to college on a student loan and pass their spare time partying. These people are still not adults, despite being "legal adults".
Afaik, in Germany there is a regulation that when you commit a crime as a "young adult" (teenager), there is an evaluation if you should be judged as an adult or as a minor.
I never thought there was a real debate over the time you transition from teen to adult. 20 is when you are officially not a teen. Yes, you are a legal adult as of 18, but you are still a teen. That's just how the number system works.
As everyone else says, going from a child(immature) to adult(mature) is much more open to interpretation.
As everyone else says, going from a child(immature) to adult(mature) is much more open to interpretation.
I'm 19 and I consider myself a teenage young adult. Part one of that description will cease to be in 6 months, but until then, I'm a teenager, plain and simple.
59 and a half. That's when you realize that the kids these days are spoiled because they have yet to walk 15 miles uphill both ways to log in to the internet. By realizing that kids are different than you are you therefore must not be a kid anymore. Instead you are a wizened adult.
...or you know 20. Like the English numbering system works but that's just boring.
...or you know 20. Like the English numbering system works but that's just boring.
Qhence they turn 30 yearen of age
Rather pointless question, real life is much like an RPG with experience and levels in differing areas
I am certainly lvl 100 in gaming but maybe 15 in social relations given a per cent scale
Rather pointless question, real life is much like an RPG with experience and levels in differing areas
I am certainly lvl 100 in gaming but maybe 15 in social relations given a per cent scale
If you're nineteen, you're still a teen. If you're twenty, you're not a teen.
And being a teen or not is not even remotely indicative of maturity.
And being a teen or not is not even remotely indicative of maturity.
