Comment by sph

> I'm 51 now and I feel like I will never be an adult. Looking around I see a lot of broken people, each in their own peculiar ways.

One becomes an adult when they learn pretty much everyone around them is desperately trying to act as an adult. There are some children that learn this lesson in their childhood, and some that learn it way too late.

There should be a name for the psychological shock everybody experiences when they figure out mum and dad are not, in fact, superheroes or supervillains, but just normal people, sometimes decent, many times a bit pathetic.