#AOTD (November 26th, 2024)
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i was, now not
I was a little too self aware, I didn't want to grow up. I wanted to stay as a kid
I'm still a kid for a few more years so I dunno
i was excited to be a teenager, not a grown up
CSI. wanted to be csi
having my own house and my own life 😓
i was excited as a kid to be an adult, now im not tho
real
I was excited because I thought I could be cool and stuff
yeah I was looking forward to it a lot during my teen years, mainly because it meant I could buy things for myself 
now i want a loving relationship with someone...
yes and having a family of my own (husband and kid etc)
IG army personal
Actually, we don't even grow up. We stay kids in our mind lmao
I think I was excited. Now? I mean technically I’m an adult but I’m not feeling it… not exactly excited anymore
Yes, I was excited to be a grown up when I was little. I wanted my own space, pets, friends, lover. Still growing up, not a little one, and now I'm scared to grow up fully.
I though I would either become mermaid or fairy when I grew up😭🙏
I was so excited to be a grown up lol and now everyday i wake up i feel worst then yesterday
kind of, I expected more ab videogames and playing them better, since my older brother always defeated those hard bosses for me :D
THIS
I wanted to become a firefighter, I still want to be a firefighter
Yes, so I can move out
yes, and the fact i would have my own money :p nt exited anymore now that im older, but still cant wait to have my own money
Being able to eat as much chocolate as I wanted
Yes. So that I could escape the country 😭 (I still do) (I don’t know why I had such a mature mind)
The fact that when i grow up i could technically buy whatever i want if I had money
Scratch what I said earlier if i don't become military personnel I'll become a therapist
I think for a long time I wanted to grow up.
I was just excited to be able to get away from my parents.
Everything else about growing up is doo-doo.
real
I wanted to grow up to see who I would become as a person and look like. I still wanna see what I do with my life when I'm older too, very curious what career I'm gonna pick.
Nah I wanted to stay a kid
Weirdly enough...paying taxes, I wanted to do them
THIS I WANTED TO BE IN THE ARMY SO BAD and if that didn’t work I wanted to be a doctor 😭
Gotta wait a few more years
If I can start to handle seeing gore I could probably manage to become a doctor
I was excited about being able to buy whatever I wanted. I guess I was right about that to an extent
But as of now I can't I'd freak out
I'm now 18 Years old. And to be honest, it will probably get worse overtime, but we'll see.
yes in hope to get away form my parent
I don’t think I was ever like downright TERRIFIED of seeing blood and stuff so yeah I thought I could be a soldier
The soldier part for me seems like a piece of cake ngl
well, we all were that that phase as kids when we thought growing up is cool, now we lowkey wish to be kids again to have a gander at that care free life again
It does tbh! Just a few steps: get strong, apply and train
FR IT'S JUST A FEW SIMPLE STEPS TO DO BEFORE U APPLY
YEAH 😭 😭 joining the military is not that hard you just have to WANT to do it
The same. Working. Jail. Yeah.
I always had assumed I would be a train driver as a kid, so I looked forward to it. It wasn't a big dream, but I enjoyed thinking about it.
Now I do maintenance and development for the US Navy. It's a step up but honestly I kind want to still drive a train.
I just wanted to do things on my time. I like having my own schedule vs one forced on me
Playing video games whenever I want... I'm 14 and still can't lol
when i was a kid i was excited to be grown up cause o could do "whatever i want"...i'm almost 18 and i wanna go back
I was. I wanted to get away from my family and have my own money and independence. As much as it can really suck to be an adult, I wouldn't give it up for anything.
my reaction to that question:
but to answer it yes i absolutely wanted to grow up
(i regret it deeply)
not really
Little me wanted to grow up so she could be top of the school like the 8th graders. Cuz that was the highest grade to peruse at the time.
But my parents always told me how much they wish to be a kid again and to stay being a kid
i wish i listened cuz i did so much to wanna be grown
And then in 2020-21 it got worse because cringe culture started taking over and telling people how to live their lives. So i felt stuck on how to express myself cuz people called me "cringe"
I can happily say even with cringe culture at its peak today i'm showing my real self a bit more around people.
I really never was. Adults always sucked to me. But I know that once you get to that certain age, you realize that you can't wait to get the fuck out of where you came from.
I lowkey wanna give my pre-teen and 13yr old self a hug
especially cuz during 2020 someone was doing something horrible to her
she deserved better.
I just wanted to be a teen
never really an adult
except maybe a few times
cuz they get a lot of food n stuff?
i guess
I can't wait to be an adult only to be able to make my own damn decisions
and not be bossed around
ok i'm rambling alot
i never wanted to grow up but one thing is that i wanna move out of my parents house
Owning literally all the silly bands that existed 💀
Honestly? Not really, I was really scared to grow up
And I’m lowkey still a little scared to get older BUT what still does excite me about it, is the fact that I get to decide what I want to do 😝
yes but now i’ve been let down
good job do that more
I really wanted to design clothes. Now I’m just scared of the future
Ty!! I definitely am
Cringe culture is SCARED of me
lol
i was excited to have money............😭
I was just about to say this!!!!
So uh absolutely not, growing up scared me since I was like 12
I don’t think I ever really enjoyed the ideas of me being an adult. I still don’t feel like one, it’s weird
To be free and have my own house and have a good job
i highkey just wanted to do what i want but now that im a teenager i wanna be a kid again
Sameee
thats what i was gonna say lol
LMFAOOO
relateable 
REALLLL
So true
when i was a kid i wanted to grow up cause i wanted money to spend, but now i want to save for something cause i will get bad feelings every dollar i spend, so being a kid was more colourful and as a teen im kinda in between of wanting to grow up and be a kid again
yeah im at that stage as well
Yes same
lowkey just wanted to get out of this household (still do)
i wanted to grow up cuz i wanted to be more free with my life now i js wanna be a kid again😓
To live alone to be left alone
No I was not, actually made a wish once for everything to stay how it was when I was 14 and uh I guess I pissed something off cause it went to absolute hell from there lol
And now I'm in my late twenties
Yes i was excited over growing up procress
Doing what i want and buying what i want
And also I wanted to become a singer and an actress lmao 
i really really wanted to be able to do my own stuff like buying what i wanted and eating what i wanted when i was like 7
I never really had a specific thing I wanted to do come to think if it i picked something so people would quit asking me but tbh I just want to be happy doing whatever thing I want at the time I don't really have a specific career in want. I just want to have fun
No, because I have Thanatophobia (phobia of death and everything jt's correlated to)
Yes i was and still am, also grateful that i am, autonomy is a beautiful thing, i don’t want to be a kid/teen again
yes cause i was like "freedom !!!! I can sleep and do whatever whenever"
oh how naive i was
my parents let me do whatever whenever as long as it doesn't affect my academic performance but i kinda miss the structure i had as a kid
i never was i didnt want to learn how to drive😭
Yes when I was younger because I wanted the money to buy anything I wanted but now I'm scared of growing older it looks rough.
No the second I realized I would never have nap time again I was sad 😭
No. But I had a certain excitement for reaching age eleven. Because it was my favorite number so I always got excited about the thought of being eleven.
At most now, I'm just excited to be able to get my own place when I have the money and be taken seriously because I'll officially be an adult in a couple years. So I'll have more freedom. I'm not excited to have to be stuck doing things like taxes. But hey, there's worse things.
heck no
i was exited to have a job and a life but now i wish i didnt
i was excited to be independent and now i'm basically a slave to the economy and living in a lower class duplex with only myself
i have to ration pretty much everything
nah i dont thhink so
i rlly wanted to be twelve for some reason
i wanted to grow up, i grew up to fast and now i wanna go back.
I wanted to grow up so bad that I grew up too fast, missing multiple childhood moments
i wanted to grow up to have an unholy amount of pets
shelving a few of those pet ideas in favor of kids now lol
No longer be mobbed
i wanted to grow up so i could explore the world, and so i could get away from where i live now
to get mha merch
I was scared to grow up
im 16 rn but yea i did want to grow up but now, i dont wanna go to college or do adult things
I didn’t really want to as a kid
didn’t really think about it
I always used to be so excited for high school damm I wish I was back in primary
Yeah, I was, but also wasn't and I want to go back to being a kid, adulthood is heckin' stressful, but I want to get away from my toxic and homophobic parents
Yeah I wanted to have my own house and stuff but not anymore because it's so expensive and complicated
Absolutely. I wanted to be able to make real choices, and to stop being treated as a brainless moron. As a sharp kid, that was endlessly frustrating. Any observations, thoughts, or anything I did was dismissed by every adult I met, simply because of the age of my body, rather than considering the age of my mind.
I'm not saying sharper kids are superior or anything!! I'm the most chaotic, crazy, and academically idiotic of all the people I know. This is just an infuriating observation, when I was in the mood to think but no one wanted to listen.
Trying to talk and have a real, meaningful conversation with an adult who can keep up with you, but everyone just looks at you with this "aww, how cute" and completely dismisses any intellectual capability or yearning.
(omg sorry for the text wall!)
I wanted to know that I can eat whatever I want, all day every day, now I'm in 11th grade I don't want to have to deal with the finances of getting ice cream all the time
not really sure, i couldn't imagine it
yea bro
Driving a car lol
✨ no ✨
I was excited because my sisters made it sound like freedom. I never imagined that my process of growing up would be full of shouting and failing grades lol. Tbh, I just wanted freedom from the car seat though-
Absolutely not. The only thing that even remotely excited me. Go driving.
Nah
I wanted to grow up for the freedom/independence it brought, not realizing that you're the freest as a kid.
i wanted car and a job so i can have money
yes, wanted to be a grown up so i could buy anything i wanted
very
yes, I did want to be one because I didn't want school and wanted money, but now I don't actually wanna be a grown up anymore
I don't want to grow up anymore-it scares me
I wanted to be able to do what I want but turns out being adult doesn't mean you can do what you want I want a refund
Female stuff and I regret it. Also taxes strangky
I thought grown-ups got what they wanted... silly me 😦
i was excited to grow up so that the adults would treat me like one of them. now that i am an adult i wish i was still a kid 😦 idk what i was thinking lmao
I don’t remember 😭
Yep, i think, and i remember that My little mind said: "if im big i can protect everyone!" 
I think so cuz I wanted to buy whatever I want lol
no, not at all
I was, I was excited about
-Getting my period (I hate it)
-Being independent (I need help with my schedule)
-And getting a phone (not complaining about THAT)
I used to be excited about going to school then university and then getting married
Now I'm just stressed about everything
I wanted to grow up until I was like nine and then I had a midchildhood crisis and freaked out
i was excited over everything they just said>>
İ was excited about being strong, independent and becoming a soldier when i grow up (Do not want to become a soldier now, wish to just have a breath and relax)
As a kid I remember thinking being an adult meant that you had all the freedom in the world, could do whatever you wanted and only have to worry about yourself. Now as an adult, I see that all of those things have downsides to them. I still like being an adult, but eh, it's not all that
No way I wanted to be a kid forever
Nope, I knew about taxes for a LONG time and have always wanted to avoid them, also the impending sense of my own death but mostly the taxes
i used to be so excited to start high school when i was a kid, but soon after i entered high school, pretty quickly i knew that it was nothing like the movies 💀
