[FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

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It sounds to me like yet another effect of the information age, the decoupling of one's essential self from their environment/behavior.  E.g. in gaming, a "tryhard" is someone who takes the game too seriously.  It's just a game.  It's OK if you lose.  Or another e.g. trolling.  When interacting with someone online who seems too sensitive or takes themselves too seriously, a decoupled person might *pretend* to be a Nazi or somesuch just to fsck with the person.

So too with adulting, where you do adult things but retain your *essence*, which is not so adult as to take adulting seriously ... to commit to it as a part of your identity.  It reminds me of "imposter syndrome" and "fake it till you make it", both common phrases when I was 30 or so.

On 11/13/18 3:26 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> I got to talking with dad today and I hadn't though about how the slang adulting might have come about. My guess was in the sense of 'going off to be a' if you have a playful personality 
> Thoughts?


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