To think growing up sucks.

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I'm 28 years old. Doesn't seem that old does it?

But I have to be a grown up. I have to get up and go to work when I'm not signed off with depression
I have to take care of my kids (who all have various additional needs to consider), sort the housework, make sure the bills are paid etc etc.

And despite having to do all of that (with autism I might add!) my body decides that fucking hates me too and will just give up on me whenever it feels like it.
Like today. When I went to my mum's for a brew. And leant on her table and managed to somehow hurt my shoulder which is now swollen and sore and ibuprofen gel and diclofenac are not working.

So AIBU to think growing up sucks and we shouldn't do it?

Put the bills on direct debits

Cut down on housework and make the kids help with it especially laundry

Go out of the house every day with kids to nearest park and let them run around to tire them out

Go back home for beans on toast.

Getting older is mandatory, growing up is optional!

With you all the way OP.

Growing up is shit, pretending to be an adult is boring.

My body tried to kill me with cancer, (the bastard) so it's even more fucked than my mid 40's would suggest.

Kids, work, study, bills, pets, ageing parents.

All s big pile of brown bottom butter 💩

I want to be 18 again!

It does but it's a privilege not granted to all.

Also I do randomly sometimes get overwhelmed with adulting joy in the supermarket when I remember I can randomly have a whole birthday cake for dinner if I want.

preggo

Ah see, problems with that plan!

Just because my life sucks, I work 8.30-6 and am out of the house 7.30-7, so unless I'm off work I can't take them to the park.

And housework I get the kids to help with as much as possible already but it's an endless cycle!

Then there's the beans on toast. My youngest child has the audacity to be allergic to tomato and wheat intolerant!

themueslicamel cancer is a bastard

thisnamechanger birthday cake for breakfast sounds amazing but my body is not how it used to be and I only have to think about food and I gain weight. I miss teenage me who could eat and eat and stay skinny!

It's what you make it.

You grow up in age but that doesnt mean you have to act like an adult all of the time. I'm a pretty playful person normally but can also adult when required.

Try not to let the health issues etc become a wall holding you back (easier said than done I know) but just remember that as an adult you get to choose your bedtime (ironically I'd rather go to bed earlier than my bedtime as a kid) get to eat what you want (until the IBS kicks in) dress how you want and do what you want.

I was reading today that as we get older, we need to be eating LESS! I eat the same as I always did - so that's where I'm going wrong.

slink oh I can be playful and often get in trouble for being childish.
I just wish adulting wasn't so boring!

Single we need to eat less ?!
That's cruelty that is.

I was reading today that as we get older, we need to be eating LESS!

Why would you say something so cruel.

Remember being young and wanting to grow up so we could do whatever we wanted....what fucking idiots we were! This is not what I signed up for!

I did notice that now no one cares what I had for dinner or indeed if I actually have it. I’m 40, I have sciatica, I have reflux i’m Shattered constantly and everything hurts at one point including my ankle which seems arthritic :( it’s true that youth is wasted on the young. Imagine what experience and energy could achieve.

I do notice I give less fucks and have less bullshit patience which can be a blessing!

battle no one cares what you had for dinner, if you had a good day, what you learnt. They don't want to know what my favourite dinosaur is (stegosaurus) or my favourite colour (purple)
They just aren't interested.

I am not being a grown up today. Hmmph.
I'm in my PJs, and I'm not going anywhere or doing anything. DP has taken the kids to school so I'm going to spend the entire day pretending I'm a kid at home poorly from school

I’m 46 and still not grown up despite adult daughter and senior job. My favourite things to do is go on the swings - that wonderful feeling of your stomach lifting as you go higher and higher makes me laugh :) and run along by the seaside with the dog building sandcastles.

Sod growing up I say x