mine was 18. more because everything became legal at that point rather than my mum thinking that i was actually mature!

i like to think that i am pretty mature most of the time. i also think that i am biased! :P

Mine was "until you move out" or something like that. And I moved out when I was 17/almost 18. I waited until I was 19 before I got my tattoo though.

I guess it would have been 18, because at that point they couldn't stop me. :D

My parents age of maturity was apparently 30 but I slipped under the wire and got my tattoo at 29. \o/

I... when I was little, 30 seemed so old and adult and shit and 60 seemed like ancient and now that I am going to be 30 and my parents are nearing 60 and we're all still retarded and immature, I don't think there's ever an appropriate age for maturity. Maybe 80....

My parents never gave me a specific age, they just said no. After making it past 30, I agree with fiddleyoumust--we're all too immature to do any damn thing on our own. The whole would should still be in nursery school, I swear.

Except for me. I'd rock if it weren't for the rest of you bastards pulling me down.

This is actually a gratuitous icon post. Enjoy the man-pretty. He doesn't really wear the scary, scary red thing, but my Photoshop skillz are not up to altering the photo to something gray, comfy, lettered in Latin, and probably profane.

ETA: The full version.

I got myself a tattoo for my 30th. Took me that many years to decide what I wanted permanently etched on my skin.

My parents never really came out and said there was any particular age at which my sibs and I could Do Whatever We Wanted. However, they did allow as how once we went off to college, there'd be precious few things we couldn't keep hidden from them if we really tried (well, until summer break, anyways) and it'd be so much simpler if we didn't bother.

That would be the age I acquire intolerable rebellious behavior, forcing them to kick me out of the house. Due to my personal decency as a human being and the fact that my parents (particularly my mother) have horrific stretches of patience, I won't be reaching maturity for two more appearances of Halley's Comet.

I think I'm getting a tattoo. Any suggestions?

*squirms* So I'm pretty sure the tattoo thing is partly cultural for my family, and they've never given me an age range. Yes I'm young. *facepalm*

But I think I'm going to get my first tattoo within the year. I made a vow when I turned 18 that if I could look at a tattoo every day for at least a year and not get tired of it (I can be very fickle) then I would get it.

18 has always been the IT age.

Come to think of it, parents have this idea of a default point of maturity that they assume, due to circumstances and years, it should at least make kids think twice before they make something materialize and not regret. Like maybe an ugly baby from an uglier father which was from a one night stand after finding him in a smoky bar and getting those terrible beer glasses on, and you wake up in the morning weeping your head off for having such a terrible, terrible taste when drunk and horny.

One would like to think that maybe it's somehow dictated by the society. After all, 18 is where girls miraculously "mature" after such a huge glamorous party overnight taken from their dad's semi-annual paycheck, and it’s where some boys realize there’s more to their palms. My own mother gave me a promise of finally going on overnights (inuman, debut et al) the moment I turn 18, which sadly, when I finally got on that age, there weren’t any more debuts to attend because EVERYONE was older than I am, and inumans forfeited because of university projects.

But think about it. 18 IS also the age you start to wonder about life and the future. Hmm. We START taking responsibilities because of the responsibility that age brings due to that pressure brought about by our own peers. Although I won’t let my own kid make life altering decisions till she’s forty.

I was thinking of getting a tattoo too. Except I can’t guarantee I’d look so hot with it still by the time I’m 55, so I’m postponing.

Hey. I miss you. How’s you?

Re: 18 has always been the IT age.

Working. Making money. Am now a bonafide yuppie. Still bitchy. Still fabulously gay. Still have pretty clothes.

How about you?

Still doing the heterosexual thing?

Re: 18 has always been the IT age.

What fucking heterosexual thing? You haven't heard?

Re: 18 has always been the IT age.

I know that you and the shitzu have parted ways long, long ago.

But aside from that, I have no news of any together-person you might have picked up.