Accidents and Adulthood

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"You're not an adult until you've been in a car accident."

"What?! Oh, maa-aan! I couldn't been a kid, forever, if it weren't for this?"

Comments

[The Sandwich Guardian]

What happened? This implies you were in an accident. Most importantly, was it your fault, cause if it is then you are paying. If I ever get into an accident I pray that it's the other person's fault

[Little_Draco]

If a car accident makes you adult, then what of witnessing a death in front of you as a child, make you?

[Barbarity]

5610202

Capable of seeing thestrals?

[Little_Draco]

5610315
Oh.... I thought you would say something like traumatized or damaged.

[Barbarity]

5610453

To be fair, there is a wide range of possible outcomes if a child witnesses death.

If the child is too young to understand what is happening, then the event might just be a curious memory on their mind.

What if they are witnessing the death of a loved one who had been suffering (say from cancer, for example) prior to dying? They might understand that death is a form of release. If not immediately, then given time and thought.

Witnessing a violent death or the death of a peer? Certainly traumatizing and damaging to them.

As an example, my great-grandfather passed away when my grandmother was four years old. She tells me she stopped talking for years and eventually started talking again when she was in elementary school.

She is the most talkative person I've ever known or met.