It sounds to me like yet another effect of the information age, the decoupling of one's essential self from their environment/behavior. E.g. in gaming, a "tryhard" is someone who takes the game too seriously. It's just a game. It's OK if you lose. Or another e.g. trolling. When interacting with someone online who seems too sensitive or takes themselves too seriously, a decoupled person might *pretend* to be a Nazi or somesuch just to fsck with the person.
So too with adulting, where you do adult things but retain your *essence*, which is not so adult as to take adulting seriously ... to commit to it as a part of your identity. It reminds me of "imposter syndrome" and "fake it till you make it", both common phrases when I was 30 or so. On 11/13/18 3:26 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > I got to talking with dad today and I hadn't though about how the slang > adulting might have come about. My guess was in the sense of 'going off to be > a' if you have a playful personality > Thoughts? -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
