{"id":1699,"date":"2012-01-23T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bottomless.flywheelsites.com\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2014-10-15T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:12:30","slug":"young-adult-more-like-old-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"YOUNG ADULT? MORE LIKE OLD KID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYC psychologist Daniel Levinson suggested that the first phase of early adulthood comes to a close around twenty-eight. He states that, &#8220;At about 28 the provisional character of the twenties is ending and life is becoming more serious.&#8221; At the ripe age of 27, I firmly believe that I am still in my mid twenties. My rule stands: you don\u2019t get late until 28. And next year\u2019s rule: I\u2019m fine until 29. Both are cute and charming and make me feel young. Regardless, I am no way near my \u2018serious\u2019 years. I am and have been a young adult for several years, but I don\u2019t feel very adult-y. I have reasons to think that maybe I am just an old kid.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have a 401K but am not really sure how it works<\/li>\n<li>I have a personal assistant and her name is &#8220;Mom, help.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I take gummy vitamins<\/li>\n<li>I eat\u00a0 more than the gummy vitamin dose because they\u2019re so delicious<\/li>\n<li>I call my mom before I call the doctor<\/li>\n<li>I have never done my own taxes<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t intend on doing\u00a0my taxes\u00a0myself \u00a0any time soon<\/li>\n<li>I know I have student loans but I don&#8217;t know where they are hiding<\/li>\n<li>I have a credit card at every store I\u2019ve every shopped at<\/li>\n<li>I regularly pay a fee for not having enough money in my savings<\/li>\n<li>I wait to get new underwear until Christmas<\/li>\n<li>I shop at H&amp;M and Forever 21 for corporate attire<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m on a family phone plan with my parents<\/li>\n<li>I can\u2019t (won\u2019t) check my oil<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t buy groceries<\/li>\n<li>I lock myself out regularly<\/li>\n<li>I get 90% of my news from Facebook<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn is just a less fun Facebook<\/li>\n<li>I refuse to call myself a young professional<\/li>\n<li>I still have no preference on liquor<\/li>\n<li>I call my mom for advice on everything (checking if food has gone bad, how to boil an egg, or\u00a0to see if\u00a0I\u00a0 just got poisoned)<\/li>\n<li>I can\u2019t do laundry without shrinking or tinting<\/li>\n<li>My socks are\u00a0usually mismatched<\/li>\n<li>I buy clothes that don&#8217;t wrinkle to avoid ironing<\/li>\n<li>My wrinkles are from whining not aging<\/li>\n<li>I have to be reminded to shower<\/li>\n<li>If I\u2019m at the grocery store too long I have a temper tantrum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These things slightly worry me, because maybe I am a full-blown adult.\u00a0Am I\u00a0just a very dysfunctional adult?\u00a0Or maybe, I am just a recovering high maintenance daughter? Are there meetings for that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38],"tags":[99,108,109,110],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-play","category-take-on-ny","tag-mom","tag-parents","tag-shopping","tag-wrinkles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}