things i was not expecting to experience as an adult but am not particularly shocked about
- seeing companies use my generations slang and phrases to advertise their products in a downright nonsensical way. saw a shoe commercial recently that went like "let me tell you about the shoe that CHANGED MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY". seemingly not understanding how scary and evil that makes the shoe sound,
- seeing people who are my age but i would say are like 1 step above being a child complain about children like they're 76. we are almost the same as kids dude we just have Job and the capacity to make descisions. but we're in our 20s so they're all bad ones
- conflict between what i always assumed being an adult "felt" like and knowing now that it feels like being alive every other year did
- checking the news and its the worst shit ever and then just having to move on with the day
- seeing peers of mine who are significantly better at doing the aesthetics of adulthood than i am and being a little pissed that i appear to have solidified my personality at age 15 instead of waiting 10 years like everybody else
- being wrong about everything i say all the time in ways that simply did not occur to me beforehand when i was an infant
- hitting exactly 20 and getting like 5 extra debuffs instantly in no time whatsoever. i did think this one was a lie when i was younger
- having to deal with infantilization as being not only frustrating like it was before but now actively quite dangerous too
- being happy still. the way i heard people talk about being an adult made me think i'd hit that age and then become too miserable to continue living but A) that's always been true, and B) because nothing has changed it's fine actually
