The kid that wants to hold his mom's hand and to have his dad tell him he's proud of him will always be in there somewhere. The kid who's scared of the basement with the lights off. The kid who just wants to play GoldenEye with his brother. He never went anywhere. He's still in there and comes out when my kids need him.

For me it was after my baby penis fell off and my adult one finished growing in.

I don't have the energy to play video games anymore

Feeling excitement about this perfectly ironed shirt

I'm about 15 years from retirement and I'm still a child. I don't see it changing any time soon.

You know how to file your taxes.

The first time I went 'fuck, it's snowed' instead of 'yay, snow!'

(I still love snow, but only at weekends 😆. Better now I can work remotely)

Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 becoming retro consoles

When you are more excited to go to sleep than to wake up.

My parents being dead.

I will let you know .

I don't understand what the fuck the kids are saying anymore. The slang is so incomprehensible that urban dictionary is necessary.

The popular music is garbage and Garbage is forgotten.

I can say "back in my day" without it being funny.

I can reference my ex-wife without it being ironic because I am not youthful and without grey hair, so I may have an ex-wife.

I can say "when I was a little girl" without it being irreverently funny because I am a clearly a guy.

Having to explain things you grew up with to your niece because they're not part of the world anymore comes at you without warning.

Your childhood ends when your heart stops. You're never going to stop being someone's kid, no matter how old, mature or posh you might get. All that changes is that mom won't tell you no...

...unless you're Elon Musk. His mom has stepped in publicity even a couple times.

Work

My parents always worked, my older siblings always worked .... every adult around me always seemed to be doing something. As a kid it was just normal that everyone everywhere was working at something all the time.

I played and had fun on my own and with my friends but somewhere around the age of ten, I started joining my dad and brothers in all the work they were doing. As soon as I did that, I played less and stopped acting like a kid ... I started canceling play time because I was working.

It was sad or disappointing for me ... I loved doing all that work and learning so much from my dad and brothers, it was fun in its own way. But when I think about it, the day I started doing adult work, or adult type work, my childhood basically ended.

I think I can even think of the actual moment. Dad and my brothers were renovating the garage and I spent the day just watching them and I really wanted to be part of it all. I picked up a wheel barrow and started moving gravel because dad had asked for material to be moved but everyone was too busy with other work. No one asked me, no one ordered me, I just started shoveling gravel into the wheel barrow. I lifted the barrow and it was too heavy for me, so I unloaded some until I could lift it and move it. As soon as I figured out how much I could carry, I started moving gravel. Then did that about a dozen times until I had moved several yards of gravel.

I was 11 and a big kid for my age. I haven't really stopped doing things since then.

When I don't understand what young people say. Worse: when they don't understand what I say.

When I realised I can't go crying to my parents anymore and started crying into my pillow instead.

People say that everything before becoming a parent yourself is just extended childhood. Can partially confirm. If the kid is with someone else, you can also be a child again.

When I became financially and legally responsible for my own choices.

When one of your parents dies when you're only 6 years old.

Having t remember t get my taxes i on time for ð first time was a real kick i ð nuts.