trying to compile a "this is what adulting looks like" list

* Personal hygiene
* Clean living space
* Nutrition
* Physical exercise
* Mental exercise
* Income source
* Contributions to the community
** Employment
** Volunteering
** Charitable contributions
** Socializing
** Art

I have a feeling I'm missing at least one heading and possibly a few subheadings. Also, "the community" is deliberately loosely defined.

I observe that lots of people I know have a hard time hitting at least one of those headings unassisted. ("Income source" heading is excluded from that sentence. Can't legally coin one's own money; therefore, assistance is required to earn money in literally all instances, whether from employer or customers or disability benefits or what have you.) In most of those cases, it's a disability issue.

...Did I just trip over the reason for treating disabled people like children? (Or vice versa. Either is treating members of that group like not-adults, which is pretty much to say, not-people. So either way it's bullshit.)

But that really wasn't where I was going with this. Which I'm not sure where that was anymore. I think it was to outline what I need to accomplish on a regular basis in order to successfully adult?

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Hey, thought. Bunk bed, except only the top bunk is actually a bed. Under it is storage space. Is that a thing? How spendy a thing is it? I assume that if it exists it only comes in twin size, because I have never heard of bunked queen beds...

Asked Dad and he says the phrase I'm looking for is "loft bed".

...I am really fond of my top bunk, okay, it's just frustrating that my room-to-myself has so much wasted space in it because the bunk bed is not designed to convert into the above-described thing and also we have to keep the lower bed bedlike and fresh sheets and whatnot in case oldest sister needs to spend the night.