Ever since my teens I've thought that growing up doesn't stop until you're dead or demented. (I actually heard that from a friend of mine, but I thought it was pretty much dead on.)
Personally, I've always had trouble doing things in the normal order, both in the small scale and apparently in long timescales too.
I've felt like an adult since I was about 18. I was old when I was divorced, balding and miserable, which was at 22. I became a full grown adult five years after that when I had my kid, and now I've fit in well with the other youngsters at the university, who are ~10 years younger than me.
To reiterate, it's basicly been young adult -> old -> adult -> young.
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