When did you realize your childhood was over?

Selling my soul to Jack to replace Krush as Sports Hub mod in 2008 at 14.

...in reality, 2007. Had a really life changing experience in the most negative of ways that I still live with today. That's where it ended and I was forced to "buck up" if I wanted to keep on track.

I'll say getting my 1st job and check as a teen. Man that feels so long ago. I'm old

When The Undertaker's streak was broken. But, my real childhood will end when he retires

I’d say around 16 when I got a license/car and a job to pay for it. I started taking girls out on dates. My dad and mom were separating and he was moving out so I was the oldest one in the house to takeover the man chores (raking, shoveling, taking out trash, mowing, etc).

I've felt equally grown and childish for as long as I can remember. Don't know what it feels like to be fully either grown nor a child.

I have to agree with this. I’ll be 31 this year, I found this place when I was 13 or 14. The threads back them smartened you up to alot of reality, but I still buy toys. I still watch tons of movies, I read comics, and I act like a teenager sometimes. The more I wonder what it would be like to be a kid in todays age the more I wonder how it will feel to be an adult. I will say, I had kids young which forced me to “grow up” but there are days when a song may come on and I am instantly transmitted back to the old days. You would think marriage, kids, and a major split up/divorce would make someone feel more of an adult, but I am really starting to feel more like a child. Hahah WFigs is therapy!

When I hit 30 it all kind of kicked me in the balls. I realized I had wasted a lot of life and I wasn’t getting any younger. That’s when I got serious about a job, serious about my future also. Now I try and help you get people and tell them hey, don’t be like me

Definitely along these lines. There was never a moment or realisation for me. It's all so gradual to notice right away, to quote Lemmy, life is "full of change that no one sees." I think for me it's the old 'The more things change...' philosophy. I'm 26 now but a big part of me is still the same as it was when I was a kid. I still look young too. Sure I'm much wiser, more intelligent, less naive and know when to stand up for myself and not take sh*t or be a pushover. And sure you notice things changing over the years and when you look back. But I still love wrestling, I still collect wrestling figures, I can still be very immature and love to fool around and play pranks, even at work and I still have some childhood friends that still live in the same street that I can retain and relive that youth with.

There was never really a moment where I found out Santa wasn't real either, I don't even remember it ever coming up. I can recall one Christmas believing in it, but a year later I knew it was my mum buying the presents, and it didn't even phase me. I really can't recall ever being told Santa wasn't real. Same with wrestling. I'm pretty sure I was smartened up to that by my cousins from the moment I watched it that it was all predetermined, but that never bothered me because it still made me suspend my disbelief for years, I think it was around 2004 when I started reading the internet more instead of just browsing WWE.com that I became more wise to the inner workings of the business.

I always find it funny when I see kids and teenagers now, because I'm forever seeing little bits of my old self in them. I feel like the teenage years are the super awkward years where you maybe lose it for a little while, you're changing, you're no longer cute, you're trying to find yourself, you can't really do much and you're not very popular in the eyes of the general public. I feel like once you hit your twenties, have fully grown and matured and find your niche, it all comes full circle and you almost feel like that little kid again, but obviously wiser and with a better perspective on life.

But to cut a long winded story short, I've always maintained that sense of childhood throughout my life. It's never really left me.

In hindsight it was when my biological mother left when I was around 14 or 15. Being the oldest of three kids in my family, my responsibilities kinda doubled. When I realized it for the first time was when I got my first job.