[FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

[Marcus Daniels]

I find it more like 25-30 years of injuries, small and large.  Some were necessary and/or self-inflicted, but I’m very different than I was (for better or worse).
I still wonder what it would be like to wake-up and feel like an adult, or if there are people happy with the idea and feel like it happened at an appropriate age.   I think I would not like those people.

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I've always preferred the pronunciation of "adult" as "A Dolt"... it is what I remember adults seeming like right up until I woke up and realized "now I am one!"

On 11/13/18 8:38 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
I have often mused about trying to explain to a child what “adult” means, given

Adulthood
Adulterate
Adult movies
Adultery

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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>

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Subject: [FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

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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