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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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So the fact that the part of your brain that allows you to plan ahead doesn't fully develop until you are a at least 24 (there is a bigger difference between 18 and 21 than there is between 21 and 28), means nothing to you? Because to me, it seems highly relevant when deciding when people are able to be fully responsible for themselves. You can argue that 18 allows you to be responsible enough. But the legal definition of adult is highly misleading to a lot of people. People don't even look the same at 18 as they do when they are fully grown.
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I always thought it was funny how bigger people (north euro mostly Scandinavians) weren't fully developed until their early 20's mid 20's yet, there is this domineering expectation and queerness in high school (and society of course) that you are done growing at 18, an adult, must lose virginity, must use drugs, etc.
I graduated high school at 171 pounds. Didn't fill out until 23-24, and finish by 25-26. I sit at a lean 220 without any weight training maintenance. My hip/waist was a 28 at 18, its now a pant size 38 (42 inch waist) pure structure, no fat. That's how much maturity and growth takes place among people from 18-28.
Can't help but feel that the 18 thing was made for either:
1) Women, or
2) Manlets and short stubby people with black hair and brown eyes
Count me as not surprised the brain is also nowhere near developed by that age either. The differences in physicality among many genetic types is plainly obvious in males.
Females are a whole nother story. The 18 thing seems to apply pretty firmly to them. 21 tops.