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_refugee_  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: At what point did you look in the mirror, and see yourself as an adult?

Facial hair will really help with that. :) Men with beards seem to get carded way, way less.

My college friends had a standard, "you are an adult when you are fully supporting yourself/paying your own bills." I think that's a pretty good one.

I can tell, looking back at high school photos, that I looked much more "babyface" then than now. That is the easiest way for me to see a change; comparing photos. But they have to be a few years old first.

I find though that "looking adult" has as much to do with what clothes I am wearing as with my face. Business professional and I look like a Full Adult. Shorts and a tank from H&M? Could easily still be in college.