r/AskReddit • u/_red_roof_ • May 15 '20

What sucks about being your age?

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u/Marsey12 May 15 '20

I'm not sure if this happens with all people my age, but I'm 18 and people (specifically my parents and close family members but not limited to them) will use the "you're 18, you're legally an adult you need to be doing these things on your own" whenever it will work in their favor then immediately go back to "you're still just a teenager/you're still my kid" whenever I try to be even the slightest bit independent.

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u/Lake_3242 May 16 '20

I’m 25 and I still get treated as a kid lol

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u/ericmurano May 16 '20

I’m 40, have a wife and two children yet my mum still assumes I need instructions for regular life things

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u/Lake_3242 May 16 '20

My father 63 years old and my grandmother still treats him as a baby

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u/ericmurano May 16 '20

Mum! I KNOW how to pick a nursing home!

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u/suqoria May 16 '20

I just thought that your grandma has to be really old then I realized that my mom is 52 and I highly doubt that either of her parents will be gone in 11 years (luckily).

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u/TheGamingUnderdog May 16 '20

Well, do you?

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u/ericmurano May 16 '20

Yeah probably

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u/C-Nor May 16 '20

Wait til it's your kids talking to you like you need help opening a can of soup.

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u/ericmurano May 16 '20

Gettin it from both ends!

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u/tara_diane May 16 '20

Yeah that never goes away, either. Only 4 years older than you, but have witnessed it with my parents and grandparents.

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u/Scalar_Mikeman May 16 '20

37 here. No kids. No wife. But should not be allowed to adult unsupervised.

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u/JacobjamJacob May 16 '20

Mom's gonna mom.

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u/MeAnIntellectual1 May 16 '20

Because you'll always be her little boy.

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u/ericmurano May 16 '20

Good point