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Lmao I think lemmy.world bans anyone admitting to be under 18 so if admins see this, you'd be banned for a day lol

But anyways, when I was 18... I was kinda in an existential crisis so I kindabinged watched The Good Place... don't remember doing any thing special...

Don't think I got a birthday cake... I mean I didnt even ask for one, cakes arent even that good once you get older and like sweet things are kinda overwhelming for taste buds sort of

I think I might have went to a Chinese restaurant and had dim sum or something. Or maybe like ordered food... forgot what I did... but these things like ordering food are common enough that it didn't exactly feel special (first world problems?) (I think restaurants were kinds closed during covid, so I think we just ordered food, don't think I got a cake since I didn't really care)

Like ever since I got to like... idk 10 or something... I don't remember birthdays becoming that important... it's mostly just like:

mom: "hey, what do you want for your birthday? want a cake?" like just so casual...

then mom be like, "oh btw did you know I had to go through a C-Section to give birth to you, do you feel grateful that I sacrificed so much for you? 🤗" "Also I had to pay a lot of fines for giving birth to you against one child policy"

Oh yeah, elections...

I wasn't old enough for primaries but I was old enough for the 2020 US presidential election and good thing my mom got citizenship so I didn't have to go through that myself so I was already citizen... cuz the naturalization would've taken so long that I'd miss the chance to vote in 2020, so yea good thing I didn't have to spend so much time go through naturalizarion. I voted Biden obviously, dickhead trump literally wants to deport me lol

Had 4 years of relief then this shit happened again FFS 🤦‍♂️

I bought a pack of Camel cigarettes. My mother's brand.

She got most of them. Not because she took them. I smoked one, I liked the taste, I didn't like the coughing. I didn't learn quickly enough. I might have smoked 3-4 of them (not all at once! I was not that dense!) before I realised smoking was not for me.

My mother: "Eh, free smokes!" (maybe)

Back then they were $1.89 (USD) a pack.

When I turned 21, I bought a "40" (ounce, like 1.2 litre) of Budweiser. Another mistake I learned from.

When I turned 40, I had the best party of my life.

I honestly don't remember. I don't think it was anything special. My family was never big on birthday parties, and subsequently I haven't been either. More than likely I stayed in, ordered a pizza and watched Princess Bride like I do every year.

Wanted to buy my first beer but was too student broke, so played WoW with housemates. Good times.

Went out for dinner with my family because it was a week night.

That weekend got tanked at a LAN Party.

I turned 18 during COVID, so not really.

My whole childhood I had seen the "adult" section of Family video and dreamed of being old enough to go in (I didn't know what it actually was for a long while)

I had stopped in during my last week of being 17 and saw the adult section, but decided against going in yet. I was only a week away, I might as well wait. Right?

The bastards closed the store the day before my 18th birthday. Waited my whole life just go be shut down one day before.

I'm sure it wouldn't have lived up to the hype in my brain from my younger self, but it annoyed the shit out of me that I'd never get to see what was back there. By 1 day!!

Happy birthday, the next years go by so much faster than you could ever believe

Haven't celebrated a birthday since I was 5, I hate it.

I think on my 18th I just got up and went to school like normal. Didn't tell anyone it was my birthday, so everyone acted like regular, then I went home and probably did what I did every evening back then, which is either youtube, games, or coding (one of those, i dont remember which specifically).

I hate birthdays so I hoped to do nothing. My parents didn't quite respect that, but they didn't do much, thankfully... Just a small "party", nothing very memorable, thankfully.

Good luck with the embodiment of greed over there lol And happy birthday!

I had saved up over $1300 from odd jobs/paper route in my teens just for it. On my 18th, I bought 30 hits of acid and a few cases of beer for me and my friends, rented a motel room under a different name 80 miles from home, and partied for about 2 days.

My family are shit. I don't think any of them even remembered it was my 18th. I invited some friends over to the flat I was staying at and we played cricket in the carpark, then drank beers for a couple of hours.

I took frankly far too much of whatever was put in front of me and I'm not fully sure of what happened for most of the might but was mostly a good night. As to feeling different no not really as I'd already been out of school and working for a couple of years at that point so not massively different in many ways aside from I could buy booze now without fear of getting denied.

I didn’t have a lot going on at that age, I don’t remember doing anything special.

I was ill and throwing up on my 18th birthday. I had a family party a few days later when I'd finished my last A Level exam though. Nothing huge, just a nice meal together.

In my country it meant I was able to vote, buy alcohol and get a driver's license. I was never interested in alcohol, but I did get a driver's license a few months later. I didn't feel that different, but my parents liked that I could ship stuff around for them. I indulged in some voting, too.