To ask how is adulthood different from what you thought it would be like as a child?

[Cordroy]

I never thought grown adults would have friendship issues.

How wrong I was 😭

I thought by 30, I’d be adulting properly and completely have all my shit together. How wrong I was.

I thought I'd have more freedom, not less.

Same.

I also thought that I'd have a wonderful social life and would be hosting dinner parties.

I never realised what hard work everything is, how tired I would be, how many idiots are in senior positions, how ruddy expensive everything was going to get, how crap food would become, and that the world would go totally insane in 2008.

I often reckon that Hadron Collider fiddling about in 2012 ISH sent us all down the wrong leg of Terry Pratchett's trousers of time...

I thought I'd be living on Moonbase Alpha. ☹️

I thought life would be more social, like in Friends or the Big Bang Theory. People popping in and out. Comedy moments: To Me, To You / Pivot! Occasional mysteries to solve, Scoob.

Also thought risk quicksand, the Bermuda Triangle and spontaneous human combustion were way higher than they actually are which is zero where I live.

That life would be fair if you were a good, kind person who worked hard. How wrong I was.

Thought I would be able to do what I liked when I liked, or a least make own rules and decisions. Discovering I wouldn’t have anything like the freedom I’d imagined and way more stress than I knew existed has been somewhat disappointing

I didn’t think a famous actor from my childhood would befriend me on Facebook as an adult 😂

The typical you can do what you want thing.. I can’t be bothered to do anything fun after all the daily relentless stuff is done.

I thought that I would be wearing court shoes. I thought that was the uniform once you got a real grown up job, and I genuinely worried because I find slip on shoes rarely stayed on my feet.

Fortunately I have never had a job that required formal footwear!

I realised as an adult that having a swimming pool in your home would require too much maintenance and actually not be that desirable

Thanks everyone for responding to this post.

I STILL think if I’m being honest that the main thing I thought about adulthood is that no woman would have friendship issues and bring left out/bitchiness. AT ALL.

That I wouldn’t be married to John Taylor.
There’s still time and I’m up for it if he is but his wife and my husband might object.

I thought adults knew what they were doing and are always in control.

As a child I didn’t realise that people inherit money potentially after their parents’ death.

Both my parents have died and I’ve now inherited so much capital from the house and their savings I can afford to keep the capital intact and just live off the interest for the rest of my life - especially as in a few years I’ll receive 2 separate work pensions on top of that interest. The capital i inherited from my parents is more now than when I first inherited it

I thought I'd be like Ria in Butterflies.
Popping out in my mini and getting a few bits and then having reflective moments in a graveyard. Having a nice husband and nice kids and a Ruby. And being a better cook than her.

Whether or not I had a nice extra male friend - didn't really understand the affair thing at the time.

Never realised the tiredness and the repetitiveness and how friends would still be hard work. Never thought ghosting would be a thing. I thought be a nice person and everyone will love you and do stuff for you.

I thought I would be an author (pen name Jessica Stirling, so glamorous!) who also owned and rode horses. Neither of these things came about, unfortunately obsessive love of reading does not necessarily translate into an ability to write books and the horse thing was never going to happen, despite reading Jill's Gymkana every week for a year.

On the bright side I think reading Enid Blyton gave me a sense of the countryside and of old houses that I absolutely yearned to experience and now I do have that. So that makes me happy.

I loved this sitcom

Well I’m not married to John Taylor from Duran Duran, living in a swanky flat in London, with a career earning £££’s.

But I agree op, I though there’d be no bullies and all adults would be, well adults in their behaviour

I’ve had similar but with musicians I loved in my youth and still do. It’s very weird to be chatting online and in person to them.
Not John Taylor though. 😆

Yes YES to your last paragraph

Ooh who is the famous actor OP?
I genuinely thought I would have a capsule wardrobe that would involve some kind of skirt suit and heels. Plus a chic boxy handbag. Still waiting!

When I was very small I remember thinking everyone was just an adult or a child and stayed that way 🤔 so 'growing up' never really occurred to me then! Not sure I gave it that much thought later either, it just happened!

I assumed I’d have kids in my early twenties and be able to be a SAHM forever, like my mum was. My dad didn’t earn brilliantly but we never seemed to go without anything. Just a sign of the times I guess. Mum used to spend lots of time having coffee with friends and I just assumed this was what happened - quite a shock to the system when I realised I would have to go out to work to afford things! 😂

I just knew l wasn’t going to be anything like my mother, l wouldn’t nag constantly and go on about money all the time, I decided l would earn my own money. I succeeded in both things.