I never really liked this question.  The article even states verbatim why I have this feeling.  &quot;Adulthood is a social construct.&quot;<p>So when we&#x27;re saying &quot;are you an adult?&quot; I&#x27;d like to ask what are we REALLY getting at.  An ability to handle X class of situations?  An ability to make X levels of abstract reasoning about social processes?  There are so many and so variable a set of objective and subjective markers that any sort of broad statement seems useless, at best, deceptive and detracting from the actual markers at worst.<p>I had a conversation with my father once, something along the lines of, &quot;We really all just get better at pretending, don&#x27;t we?&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure what my &quot;Central point&quot; of this post is, (and it&#x27;s far from my more rigorously argued ones) so take it as a collection of thoughts on how I&#x27;ve found the most &quot;personal enlightenment&quot; regarding adulthood, as a rather transparent contrived construct; realizing this was (perhaps ironically given my thesis on this) my internal moment of &quot;I have reached adulthood&quot;.