As a millennial, I recognize that us 90’s kids just look like very tall teenagers, where as people our age back 30 to 40 years ago actually LOOKED like they were in their 20’s. Why is this?
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I agree with the comments about our perception, sun exposure, sunscreen, less tobacco and alcohol and dressing more casually than people from older generations.
I’d add that we behave in ways that are considered less mature too. For many of us, games are still a big part of our lives (videogames, board games, role playing games). We’ve got a culture of childhood nostalgia that adults rarely had when we were kids. We’ve got t-shirts with references to our favourite pop culture bits, posters…
And many of us don’t have kids in our 30s. Many of us don’t own their homes. Many of us don’t have stable jobs – anyway, what’s a stable job today? Now we’re supposed to stay 3 years in a company and move on.
So we feel and behave very differently from the adult models from previous generations. We behave and present more like what we’d expect from teenagers and young adults. This impacts our perception about how mature we appear.
In a few generations, this might be what adulthood looks like though.
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