adulting

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Adulting is a neologism for growing up that became popular on English-speaking social media in the second half of the 2010s.{{Cite magazine|last=|first=|date=June 8, 2016|title=Here Is What 'Adulting' Means|url=https://time.com/4361866/adulting-definition-meaning/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-24|magazine=Time}}{{Cite web|last=Tullo|first=Danielle|date=2016-06-20|title=Kindly Shut the Hell Up About "Adulting"|url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a58946/stop-adulting/|access-date=2020-06-24|website=Cosmopolitan|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|last=Grose|first=Jessica|date=May 10, 2017|title=Perspective {{!}} The word 'adulting' is gross. It's also sexist.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/09/the-word-adulting-is-gross-its-also-sexist/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-24|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Hill|first=Susan|date=2018|title=#Adulting and the Disordered State of American Adulthood|url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/AN.814|journal=Anthropology News|language=en|volume=59|issue=2|pages=e229–e233|doi=10.1111/AN.814|issn=1556-3502}} American writer Kelly Williams Brown has been credited with coining the term.{{Cite news|date=2017-05-01|title=Anatomy of the "Adulting" Trend|language=en|work=ELLE|url=http://www.elle.com/culture/news/a44942/anatomy-of-the-adulting-trend/|access-date=2017-05-23}}{{Cite news|last=Beck|first=Julie|title=When Do You Become an Adult?|language=en-US|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/when-are-you-really-an-adult/422487/|access-date=2017-05-23}} The term is commonly used to refer to the context of tasks and activities that are necessary to carry out in order to live and function within mainstream civilized society, but are typically only done by adults due to pragmatic, financial, physical, or legal restrictions rooted in age.