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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By these standards, most of my adult relatives are actually children.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's like I tell my kids, an adult is just a child who got old. It's also why a lot of cultures have a concept of adulthood that has nothing to do with reaching sexual maturity alone.