how come adults don’t look as ‘mature’ as they used to? I’m told it’s ‘neoteny’ but that answers nothing.

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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 just read a post where a woman basically said that growing up means you lose your ability to experience giddy joy and glee. Lots of people of course disagreed with her but I think her definition of maturity was much more common a few decades ago. It was expected from adults that they don’t giggle, don’t get excited, that they stayed composed and controlled and that showed in their demeanour and faces.

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