Being in the same age bracket, I’d say that perhaps realising that there will never be that magic moment is what makes one an adult mutant?
I think the secret is there is no such thing. Or you already have it. Take your pick…
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Yeah, probably… but then again, you WOULD say that LOKI!!! I’m on to your trickster ways! 
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Got my official letter! Part of my excitement is at making more per year in stipend than at any other point in my adult life (and I’ve worked full-time jobs before). And no, grad schools don’t pay that much, I’ve just never made that much money working shitty jobs and unpaid internships. Now I don’t have to hold down an inconveniently located job while trying to make it to classes while being behind on all my bills. That feels like a victory.
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Congratulations! Go celebrate!
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I’m very happy for you…Congratulations!
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My first therapist is a man in his 60s I once asked him when I would feel like a grown up, he said he would let me know as he wasn’t there yet.
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Honestly, that is a large chunk of what drove me put of academic medicine. I am deathly allergic to bullshit.
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Proposed tonight.
She said yes!
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Grats!!!
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Fantastic, that’s great to hear!
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For a long time I had the ambition that by 40 I would know what I wanted to do when I grew up. Twelve years later I’m happy that what I’m doing is both making the world a marginally better place and that I’ve fallen into/had a job built to my skills, rather than the other way around.
If there’s a magical moment of becoming a grown-up, I missed it. On the other hand, I reckon the point at which you stop judging breakfast cereal for the cartoon character on the box and judge it instead according to the fibre content is probably a major turning point.
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Check out old sick feral cat interaction with kittens. Major kitty-to-kitty hug around 2 minutes in:
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Awww…and best wishes!
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Great news! congrats!!!
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Fucking fantastic! Congrats!
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I was going to comment in the veganism thread and remembered that it’s my birthday and I deserve better.
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Yay! Happy birthday!
I realize I was a day late, probably. Hope you had a great day!
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Something that is hopefully a victory…
(This isn’t a wild “new magic pill discovered” story, but it is a major landmark. They’re saying the retrovirals completely prevent transmission of HIV, when before they thought it just made it unlikely. It’s a magnitude difference. They’re saying “zero”, not “close-to-zero”. That would make it more effective than vaccines and birth control, if we can get people the treatments.)
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More of this, please:
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