I'm just thinking about like elephants being teenagers and getting in trouble and testing the rules.

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, what does it mean to be an adult?

I called home maybe 12 times because I was so homesick and I thought maybe I'm not as

much of an adult as I thought I was. Angela, we have a fascinating question today about adulthood.

Adulting or adulthood.

Well, adulthood, I think, but I think they're tied together.

And I don't know that I'm good at adulting I don't know how you are at adulting but

kind of forced upon us at a certain age it is so here's the question who decided and

when was it decided that the age of 18 years old is considered an adult?

Why hasn't this evolved with our understanding of human brain development?

Thank you so much for considering my question, Allison.

Oh, so nice, Allison.

Yeah, I think this is a great question.

My favorite is like, who decided?

Like, who are you to tell me that 18 is an adult?

Do you know the answer to that question because I know the neuroscience and the psychology on that question,

but I don't know who decided was that at the age of 18 we are able to vote and do some other things.

I weirdly do know the answer to that, but before we jump into that, I want to ask you a question first.

Was there a time in your life when you finally felt like I'm an

adult? I think in high school I actually did have a little vague feeling about this and it's partly because my parents whom I loved

and who were caring were very occupied with raising my older brother and sister and they were a handful and so the kinds of

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