What’s a moment when you realized you were officially an adult?

If going by definition then I would say when I was 15 and decided to start posting my work online. Emotionally when I was roughly 8 to 11. Physically I would say 18 when I started college.

8 to 11 is when I finally realized that I was on my own and gave up hope. In a word, Trauma. I could go in depth about such things, I’m very open about it but I’ll leave it out of this post.

15 I started my DeviantArt account, along with part time volunteer helping my sister at her corporate job (which was at a construction company in NYC). I also helped my dad as his assistant for superintendent and school janitor. Not to mention I have been by definition couch surfing between family members since 5 years old. I got a paying job at 16 at least, and have done small pay gigs since I was 13.

At 18 is when I started college, and is when family started going from calling me “the eldest compared to my nieces” to “the adult compared to my nieces.” So in my personal reality I have always felt like an “adult” because I do not know what it felt to be a “child”.