Around what age (if you are there yet) did you feel as if you were "a man" or "a woman".

Question

I'm not referring to when you were considered to be, nor the age when you were blinded by youth and confidence, but rather the time you learned enough to realize you didn't know quite as much as you once thought you did.

Answer 1

I don't think I am there yet..... at 25

Answer 2

As a 27 year old mlae with a BA college degree I feel that I have a long way to go before I feel like a mature adult.

Answer 3

Interesting and complicated question.... When I was 15 I was sure I was an adult, then a couple of years went by and I relaized that at 15  I know less thatn nothing. At 18 I was sure I was NOW an adult. Yet after a couple of years later I realized tha no way was I a grown up at that age. Then, al long last I was the big 2-1! I could drink legally! I just knew that this was official adulthood. Now, as a late 30 something I can honestly say it didn't happen til  I was about 25. Everything up til then was a lead up.

Answer 4

after you have been proved wrong enough and made enough mistakes (i.e. hangovers, clubbing) that you realize you just mite not be so smart.......... about mid 20s

Answer 5

12, I faced so many things all on my own at that age , so many things youh couldn't beleive.

That was the age I became independent.

Answer 6

21!When I became caretaker over my life;job,apartment,personal endeavors,relationships,etc..Blessings Yahoo

Answer 7

Honestly, about 30, until then I still didnt know, how much I didnt know.  That is the hardest thing, is realizing that not only do you not have all the answers, you never will

Answer 8

17, when i joined the Navy.

Answer 9

When i was 15...i could hold mines in a fight, lost my v card, and could make money

Answer 10

I don't know that I ever did, really. I'm almost 39, but have always enjoyed being around children, and can tolerate them more than adults. I feel a part of

me is a woman, but most of me is still a child, knowing that more mental growth is still to come. I am not finished developing my mind, and thinking. I haven't stopped growing, as it were.

I am physically an adult, but I think I still dream like a child a lot. I don't want to give that up. I won't give it up.

Wonderful question; Brilliant even!

Answer 11

It happened the day I turned 25. I realized I was no longer able to do the things I did as a teenager or as a college student. I was now married and had a daughter. The more I thought about the more it scared me. This all ended when I read a quote attributed to Mark Twain: "When you are a child, your father is the biggest, strongest, smartest person in the whole world. When you are a teenager, your father is the dumbest person in the whole world. When you turn 25, it is amazing how much he has learned in so short a time."

I am now 60, my dad is 83. It is amazing to me how much he knew and how much he knows. He and my step-mother just got back from an RV trip, that was 8000 miles in length. He says it is because of him Exxon/Mobile made such a big profit.

Bill

Answer 12

at 15 i'm defiinitely  not there yet

i mean i have A LOT of life to live

but i know what those milestones are and i've started to look at life very differently.

i'm around the youngest im my year group so i'm usually around people atleast a year older than me, but i think i'm quite mature in comparison.

so i would say it's something you realize once you have achieved your own goalsand understands yourself or have your own opinions and are able to voice them in a way that can be understood.

Answer 13

I'd say I first felt like a woman around my 17th birthday. Not unyouthful but just responsible. By 17 I felt beautiful, smart, and RESPONSIBLE!! I think that once you feel quite responsible, that you are a "man" or "woman".  Once you can take responsibility for your actions! :-)  

Answer 14

early 20's

Answer 15

Oh, well, if your going to be that particular, then I guess I'm still not.

The only way I make it through 8 hours of sheer blind stupidity every day is the unshakable belief that I'm way smarter than those who make the decisions.  

So, I guess I'm a 30-something adolescent!

Answer 16

I don't think I've hit that point yet, but I'm only 16. A couple of years ago, I felt as if I've finally hit the type of personality that will remain relatively stable. Even if it has been, I have still changed a little since then, and will definitely change in the future. I've realized that my opinions are not very important, but I still indulge in expressing them anyway. Maybe I will eventually decide that it's not important to say anything, or decide that expressing my opinions has nothing to do with pretension.

Answer 17

When my mother passed away (I was in my late 20's)

That is when life took on a completely different meaning.

It is not that I felt child-like in the decade or so prior to that.... I just suddenly lost the role as daughter. My perspective of the world, people, spirituality all shifted.

It's hard to explain, but that is when I really felt I was a woman.

Answer 18

Well haha I definitely don't think I'm a woman yet! That sounds so like, silly. I'm fourteen and feel like a kid still.I don't ever want to be a woman I want to be a kid! Grown-ups are so b-o-r-i-n-g yuck.

Love Haleigh<3