@Wife and what's the difference in your opinion? "Having your life together" and responsibility don't count, because some people are wired to pursue and attain those goals from the instant they leave their parents' house, but they're still "young"
@Wife but a cutoff for what? Like what is the difference between before the cutoff and after? Just having your life together and a modicum of maturity?
@adiabatic Yes. As I said in another reply, it differs on the person. But when exactly would you say that most people stop becoming young? Only one person has been willing to provide an actual approximation
@Caliban87 Not just on a per-person basis, but on a per-query basis. The dividing line for youngness as defined by "can you pull all-nighters and drive the next day?" is somewhere in the 20s or 30s…
@adiabatic I am asking a general question. We all know the 70 year old will test negative for youth when examined with common youth-related queries (as in, the ones that people actually ask). We all know an 18 year old would instead average to young
@Caliban87 but I don’t think my original answer fits what you were asking in your question necessarily. I wouldn’t say that someone who is 25 is “old” but I would say they’re not a “young adult”
@Wife My parents are in their late 70s and my mother keeps talking about the old people and then catching herself to add that they are now part of the "old people" group.
@joanna I remember one time back when I was waitressing, that two 91yo ladies asked to sneak a peek into the back room where there was private party for a 99yo, because they wanted “to see what someone that old is like.” //@Caliban87
@adiabatic What I'd like to hear is your intuitive answer. For instance, for me it's 34. For @Wife, it's 24. I was wondering what specifically made her say 24, as I am uncomfortably close to that age myself
@Caliban87 coming back to this, I think how you act or feel doesn’t make you “young” or “old” only age. My answer was just the first thought that popped in my head. @adiabatic