When did you first realise you were an adult?

When I started work at 17 and could go and have my ears pierced. Mum had always said when I asked "When you're grown up and earning you can pay for it yourself" as she didn't approve.
I walked out of work on the Friday and straight into the jewellers.

I was just 15 my Mum took me to an office and said I've got you an interview there in you go and left me there. I got the job

I haven't.

I think I was the same as you TwiceasNice when I started earning at 16. It hit me like a bloomin’ wrecking ball when I had my son less than 2 years later though .

I m waiting

When I left school at 16 and started my first job and gave my mother money towards my keep and had to budget out of my tiny wages for clothes, fares, lunches, AND treats. ( not many of those with what I earned at the time )

When I left home at 20 and rented a flat on my own and was financially independent .

when my uncle called with the news my aunt had died and I had to break it to my mother,her sister .I was 17 .Sadly we lost my granny and my other aunt within 3 weeks all my mothers female relatives.It was very tough on her and dad told us we had to be strong for her and be grown up about it .